conclusions the frequency of nis in this hospital was lower in comparison with other worldwide studies. however, low incidence of health care-associated infections in our study may be due to under diagnosis and underreporting of such infections by health care staff. results the incidence of nis was low (i.e. < 2%). among 16936 admitted patients in this hospital, 174 patients (79 males and 95 fe...

background:  the hemoglobin disorders constitute the most prevalent group of monogenic disease a findings consis tent with this is a hemoglobin/g variant indicating that the patient has hbd/g trait. hb d/g traits are clinically benign. in this study, the epidemiology of hbd/g was reviewed in a single institution in iran. methods and materials: we conducted the epidemiological study at aliasghar...

background: researches mainly focus on patients who suffer from cancer. families and parents have been neglected in these researches although they experience levels of stress, depression and anxiety. this research aims at studying the effectiveness of hope therapy based on group therapy on hope and depression of mothers with children suffering from cancer in aliasghar children's hospital, tehra...

Background and Objective: Typhoid fever is still a major health problem for which there are limited options for the diagnosis. Current diagnostic methods are time consuming with undesirable sensitivity. Among newer diagnostic methods, PCR is attractive and could be potentially very helpful in developing countries where systemic salmonella infections are endemic among children but needs to be in...

introduction: hospitals as important sector of health care system has special location in health economic science. increasing of the operational costs in hospital and limitation in financing cause that hospital as an economic firm use cost analysis and prepare effective using of resource and boost productivity. therefore this study was conducted to calculate daily- patient hotel cost in hospita...

background and objectives: effective communication between managers and staff is a prerequisite to organization success. cultural competence is key to effective communication. the aim of this study was to survey cultural competence in managers of selected hospitals.   methods: twenty teaching hospital managers and four private hospital managers of senior level participated in the study. data we...

INTRODUCTION Group A Beta-Hemolytic Streptococcus (GABHS) can induce PANDAS (pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders associated with streptococcal infection). GABHS is the most important and common bacterial cause of acute pharyngitis in Iranian children. We studied the role of GABHS (anti-streptococcal antibodies) in suspected cases of PANDAS in a cross sectional studies. METHODS Acr...

background rapid response teams (rrts) assess patients during early phases of deterioration to reduce patient morbidity and mortality. objectives this study aimed to evaluate the ability of earlier medical intervention by a rrt prompted by clinical instability in patients to reduce the incidence of and mortality from unexpected cardiac arrest at our hospital. patients and methods a nonrandomize...

background: users of hospital information system (his) use these systems durâ­ing working day and know its problems better than othâ­ers know. studying their views is very important and can be espeâ­cially effective in the development of the inâ­formation system. the aim of this study was to investigate the users' views toâ­wards the qualâ­ity of hospital information system in the training hosp...

BACKGROUND This study aimed to determine the impact of an empowerment program on maternal stress. MATERIALS AND METHODS During May 2009-May 2010, this quasi-experimental study was performed in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) of Shahid Akbarabadi, Rasoul-e-Akram, and Aliasghar Hospitals affiliated to Tehran University of Medical Sciences (Iran). The program consists of an educational C...