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background: presentation of course plan were advised but presentations of  lesson plans were useful too. these items can introduce the course and lessons of each session to students.  the objective of this study was the determination of the effects of educational planning on learning of occupational diseases. methods: this study was a semi experimental study which was conducted by using the cur...

CONTEXT Critical laboratory value reporting is a highly visible and essential key activity for clinical laboratories. OBJECTIVE To measure critical laboratory value reporting in multiple institutions over time and to examine the practice patterns and demographic factors associated with sustained improvement in critical value reporting. DESIGN A longitudinal cohort study of 180 clinical labo...

multiple sclerosis (ms) is a demyelinating disease of the central nervous system,with unknown etiology in which both genetic and environmental factors are thought to be involved. the hla system provides a set of genetic markers which lend themselves to systematic study. the disease also has variable clinical manifestations, ranging from a relapsing-remitting course to a chronic progressive dise...

abstract   background and purpose: traditional lecture-based teaching has been long used to transit theoretical knowledge to the participants. due to some problems of this didactic approach, some believe that integration within an active method is more valuable in nursing education. in this study, we hypothesized that integrating lecture-based teaching within clerkship course would enhance nurs...

background inflammatory bowel disease (ibd) may begin as early as the first year of life. the objective of the present study was to determine the characteristics and clinical course of children with early-onset ibd. materials and methods the records of patients with ibd admitted to children medical center hospital during 2003-2006 were screened for those with disease onset before the first year...

laboratory diagnostic tests are useful in diagnosis of hydatidosis of the lung. in this study, we compare the diagnostic values of these immunodiagnostic tests with the clinical evidence of hydatid disease. application of these tests, especially indirect hemagglutination and bentonite flocculation, is shown to be very useful in diagnosis of the disease, of course in combination with clinical fi...

In this report, the clinical course and treatment response of 210 patients with Grawes’ disease referred to the research institute for nuclear medicine were studied. The disease was more common in 3rd and 4th decades and more frequent in women (F/M=4). Treatment response with antithyroid drugs was about 50%, whereas 80% of the patients treated by I-131 showed positive response. There was ...

Background: The disease course of inflammatory bowel (IBD) following treatment with glucagon-like peptide (GLP)-1 based therapies is unclear. Objectives: To examine clinical outcomes IBD in patients and type 2 diabetes treated GLP-1 compared other antidiabetics. Methods: Using nationwide Danish registries, we identified who received antidiabetic between 1 January 2007 31 March 2019. prima...