background: healthcare authorities, in all around the world, are faced with resources limitations and limitless needs of citizens. therefore, optimal resources allocation, particularly in the health sector and emergency system, seems to be of great importance. the present study aimed to determine the optimality rate of patients' distribution to hospitals by emergency stations based on the trans...

introduction this study determines the effect of prehospital time and advanced trauma life support interventions for trauma patients transported to an our trauma center. materials and methods this study was a retrospective study of trauma victims presenting to a trauma center in central iran by emergency medical services (ems) and hospitalized for more than 24 hours. demographic and injury char...

conclusions in this study, trauma intervention increased satisfaction in patients admitted to the emergency department. therefore, managers and personnel of hospitals and healthcare training centers are urged to implement trauma intervention in their hospitals or healthcare training centers. results the mean score for total satisfaction after trauma intervention in the experimental group (45.6 ...

background: sixty-two percent of the young people between 16 to 24 years-old living in the catchment area of the study take 5 glasses and more in one occasion as compared to 45.8% in the entire france. previous studies showed that if the alcohol consumption starts earlier, the risk for alcohol dependence increases at the adult age. in some countries, the motivational intervention has been alrea...

background patients’ escape from hospital imposes a significant cost to patients as well as the health system. besides, for these patients, exposure to adverse events (such as suicide, self-harm, violence and harm to hospital reputation) are more likely to occur compared to others. the present study aimed to determine the characteristics of the absconding patients in a general hospital through ...

conclusions the antinociceptive properties of lidocaine are derived from multifaceted mechanisms, turning it into a medication that is safe to administer via different routes which makes it available for use in a variety of medical conditions. results our study revealed that lidocaine is broadly used in various therapeutic approaches for different types of pain, such as visceral/central pain, r...

there are several reports in the literature indicating a great variety of pharmacological effects for peganum harmala or aspand such as sedative anti-bacterial, anti-fungal, antiviral and antiprotozoal. some people believe that can be used for treatment of some organic or psychiatric disorders. we introduce a woman with history of long time constipation that was disappointed in novel medical tr...

n t odern healthcare operates under the banner of “evidencebased” medicine. The pursuit of such evidence, however, is ot exclusively driven by need, but by the vailability of funds, which in turn deends partly on the likelihood of profit. ore portentously, the pursuit of data is ounded by the prevailing conceptions of iological plausibility. This essay makes he case that such borders are not re...