IRANIAN PATIENT RIGHT CHARTER FROM THE MEDICAL INFORMATION SCIENCE PERSPECTIVE: A QUALITATIVE STUDY Soraya Samadi, Vahideh Zarea Gavgani. Faculty member and head Department of Library and Information Science, Institute of Nabi Akram(SW), Tabriz, Iran; Associate Professor of Medical Library & Information Science, Iranian Center of Excellence in Health Management; Department of Medical Library & ...

Background: During the COVID-19 pandemic, care for cancer patients may be disrupted for several reasons, leading to disease progression. Home-Based palliative care, if properly managed, can provide easy and safe access to care services for these patients. This study aimed to explore stakeholders’ perceptions of home-based palliative care for cancer patients during the pandemic. Methods: This q...

Haishan Li, Hong Peng, Pengfei Ma, Yuhua Ruan, Bing Su, Xinping Ding, Chen Xu, C. David Pauza, and Yiming Shao State Key Laboratory for Infectious Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for AIDS/STD Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, Anhui Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Hefei, and Fuyang Center for Disease Control ...

BACKGROUND To extract utility values of diabetic retinopathy on a perfect health and perfect vision scales for Iranians with both types diabetes. METHODS In this investigation, 150 untreated patients with diabetic retinopathy consecutively were examined and interviewed in Farabi Eye Hospital, Tehran, Iran, a tertiary referral center in the Iranian health care system. Utility values based on p...

BACKGROUND Atherosclerosis is a complex multifocal arterial disease involving interactions between multiple genetic and environmental factors. OBJECTIVES In the present study, we investigated the possible association between NOS3 (rs1799983), MTHFR (rs1801133), APOB (rs5742904) and TNF-α (rs361525) polymorphisms and the risk of coronary atherosclerotic lesions in Iranian patients. PATIENTS ...

Iran is suffering from the 2(nd) most severe addiction to opioids in the world. While the explanation of this enormous drug problem is refutably related to drug trafficking, the drug dilemma also illustrates the chain reaction of the imposed war with Iraq in 1980 - 88; the problems of poverty, unemployment, urbanization, homelessness, adultery, family crises, divorce, domestic violence, and run...

1Iranian Research Center for HIV/AIDS, Iranian Institute for Reduction of High-Risk Behaviors, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR Iran 2Students’ Scientific Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR Iran 3Shiraz HIV/AIDS Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, IR Iran 4Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public ...

background: the aim of the study was to evaluate the relationship between the serum levels of androgens and coronary artery disease (cad) in an iranian population. methods: male individuals admitted to tehran heart center and sina hospital, tehran, iran from 2011-2012 were categorized into cad and control groups based on selective coronary angiography. baseline demographic data, including age, ...

BACKGROUND There are insufficient data available on utilization and health care costs of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. The cost data for different health conditions and services is a major gap in Iranian health system. So this study is the primary or first step towards filling this gap. OBJECTIVES This study aims to estimate the diagnosis and treatment costs of Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver....