PURPOSE To evaluate the discrepancies between the professionals and outpatients on quality perceived of a Nuclear Medicine Department (NMD). MATERIAL AND METHODS This cross-sectional study has been carried out using two questionnaires: a validated patient experience questionnaire and a quality perception questionnaire for professionals. Both questionnaires use the same 25 categorical items to...

OBJECTIVE To create a new outcome measure of mobility in people with lower limb amputation, based on a pool of 14 items assessing prosthetic mobility, comprising the 12-item Prosthesis Evaluation Questionnaire (Mobility Section) plus 2 new items. DESIGN Cross-sectional study. SUBJECTS A total of 100 subjects (median age 58 years; 46 males; median body mass index 23.8) who had recently under...

Various questionnaires are used in patients who undergo rhinologic surgeries but a unique comprehensive questionnaire is needed to evaluate quality of life (QOL) in rhinologic surgeries. The purpose of this study was to prepare a comprehensive questionnaire and compare QOL among four common rhinologic surgeries including functional endoscopic sinus surgery, septoplasty, septorhinoplasty, and se...

this study intends to identify a model of local leadership for government and non-government newspapers and also, to compare the model of leadership in the government and non-government newspapers. for this purpose, first all leadership models have studied and combined with islamic leadership model and then 134 indexes were selected as optimal indexes of local leadership. these indexes were sen...

background:  assessment  of quality-of-life (qof) as  an outcome   measure   after  deep   brain  stimulation   (dbs) surgery in patients  with parkinson’s disease  (pd) need  a valid, reliable and responsive  instrument. the aim of the current   study   was   to   determine   responsiveness   of validated  persian  version  of pd questionnaire  with  39- items (pdq-39) after dbs surgery in pat...

PURPOSE To develop a pelvic discomfort index (PDI) to evaluate outcome following fixation for pelvic ring injury. METHODS 29 female and 44 male consecutive patients (mean age, 36 years) underwent internal fixation for pelvic ring injury of type B1 (n=10), B2 (n=22), B3 (n=15), C1 (n=18), C2 (n=5), and C3 (n=3), based on the AO/OTA classification. At postoperative 6, 12, and 24 months, patient...