background: antibiotics can be life saving if they are used correctly, and can have unwanted side effects specially resistance with incorrect use. unfortunately in fear of no response, physicians use broad spectrum antibiotics meticulously. in this drug utilization evaluation (due), improper use of vancomycin and five broad-spectrum antibiotics are studied to find faults and solution for this p...

poly-drug use refers to the use of two or more substances at the one time or repeatedly. it is common among both recreational and regular drug users across the world. poly-drug use is a great contributor to the global number of deaths related to drug overdose. in this case, the likelihood of drug overdose and its pertaining complications in an individual is higher especially when benzodiazepine...

BACKGROUND Tigecycline is a novel antibiotic with activity against multidrug resistant bacteria. The aim of this study was to assess the efficacy of tigecycline use in serious hospital-acquired infections (HAI) CASE PRESENTATION: Prospective observational study of tigecycline use was conducted in a 1500 beds university hospital. From January 1, 2007 and January 31, 2010, 207 pts were treated wi...

introduction: narcotic drug abuse and illicit use of drugs is a major, complicated multifactorial phenomenon affecting most of the societies today. incidence of drug abuse among adolescents is very high. adolescents become addicted to substances more quickly than adults. the aim of this study was to assess the pattern of drug abuse among male adolescents in hamadan. methods: this study was a de...

background: drug use evaluation (due) aims at improving the patients’ care. studying the administration pattern of intravenous immunoglobulin (ivig) is an important research topic due to its significant role in the treatment and controlling of many disorders, high prices, and limited availability of this drug. methods: this observational cross-sectional study was conducted at shahid sadoughi ho...

background: more than 80% of patients with hematologic  malignancies will develop fever during more than one chemotherapy cycle combined with neutropenia. we aim to evaluate empiric antibiotic strategies in febrile neutropenic (fn) cancer patients. methods: this is a concurrent study performed in the “shahid ghazi” teaching hospital, hematology-oncology center of tabriz, iran during the period ...