BACKGROUND The Affordable Care Act of 2010 allows for the adjustment of reimbursement to health care centers based on 30-day readmission rates. High readmission rates may be explained by multiple events at discharge, including medication errors that occur during the transition of care from inpatient to outpatient. Pharmacist involvement at discharge has been shown to improve health outcomes in ...

purpose : to evaluate the efficacy and safety of subconjunctival oculusgen implantation when used during trabeculectomy methods : in this prospective, nonrandomized, interventional case series, 10 eyes of 10 patients with medically uncontrolled open angle glaucoma were enrolled. conventional fornix based trabeculectomy with implantation of subconjunctival biodegradable collagen implant (oculusg...

purpose : to develop a guideline for the treatment of incompletely removed histopathologically documented ocular surface neoplasia (ossn) with mitomycin c (mmc). materials & methods : through an interventional case series, 17 eyes of 17 patients presented with incompletely removed ossn were treated according to a protocol using 2-3 alternate 7-day courses of mmc 0.04%. clinical recurrence was r...

To determine the association between some demographic features ( age, sex, level of education) and the rate of diabetes mellitus control, we performed a cross sectional study in 1065 patients who were under the care of Kerman diabetes center in 1992. We evaluated the data of 525 patients who had more than four visits annually. Sixty nine per cent of them were female and 31℅ male. The mean age f...

Introduction: Adherence to the treatment regimen is among the key principles in chronic diseases, like thalassemia. The difficult treatment of these patients and the significant biopsychosocial changes that occur during adolescence may lead to numerous psychosocial changes. Such issuesmay affect their adherence to the treatment regimen. Objective: The current study aimedto deter...