Vol. 9 | No. 3 | Summer 2012 | UROLOGY JOURNAL 1Department of Oncological and Surgical Sciences, Urology Clinic, University of Padova, Padova, Italy 2Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health, Section of Legal Medicine and Forensic Pathology, University of Padova, Padova, Italy 3Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Padova, Padova, Italy Rafael Boscolo-Ber...

Mohammad Reza Fakoorziba, Mohammad Assareh, Davood Keshavarzi, Aboozar Soltani, Mohammad Djafar Moemenbellah-Fard, Mohammad Zarenezhad Research Centre for Health Sciences, Department of Medical Entomology and Vector Control, School of Health, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran Department of Medical Entomology and Vector Control, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Med...

Personalized medicine relies in part upon comprehensive data on patient treatment and outcomes, both for analysis leading to improved models that provide the basis for enhanced treatment, and for direct use in clinical decision-making. A data warehouse is an information technology for combining and standardizing multiple databases. Data warehousing of clinical data is constrained by many legal ...

Legal Medicine Research Center, Legal Medicine Organization, Tehran1, Ayatollah Taleghani Hospital, Urmia University of Medical Sciences, Urmia2, Alzahra Hospital, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan3, Department of Pediatrics, Children’s Medical Center, Pediatric Center of Excellence, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran4, Iran Marashi SM, et al. ALUMINIUM PHOSPHIDE POISON...

In" our recent special medico-legal number wo referred to the list of publications by Indian Medical Service officers on the subject of Medical Jurisprudence or Legal Medicine, and the volume now under review is a worthy successor to those which have gone before. Major Collis Barry, i.M.s., by his long assoc.ation with the work ot the Chemical Analyser s department in Bombay, and with the chair...

Deviation from an acceptable standard of care is one of the central issues in a lawyer’s mind in any malpractice lawsuit. However, the trigger for a lawsuit is the occurrence of a compli‐ cation. That is, intense scrutiny of a doctor’ practice usually only occurs once harm has occurred to a patient. Thus avoiding complications is the maxim to follow. Understanding the situations in which compli...

BACKGROUND To practice occupational health in Europe, a medical doctor must qualify in occupational medicine. This requires a period of postgraduate specialist medical training lasting a minimum of four years, in conformity with European regulations, to obtain a certificate of completion of training which is then mutually recognized within the entire European Union. DISCUSSION In 2002 an Ital...