background breast cancer is still considered as one of the most common female cancers worldwide regardless of the countries’ level of development. this study determines the incidence of breast cancer in fars province, southern iran. methods this study used patients' records from shiraz university of medical sciences cancer registry centre, which is a hospital-based registry of nemazee hosp...

BACKGROUND The availability of quality assured, population-based cancer registries and biobanks with high quality samples makes it possible to conduct research on large samples sets with long follow-up within a reasonable time frame. Defined quality for both cancer registries and biobanks is essential for enabling high quality biobank-based research. Recent networking projects have brought thes...

Asking distinguished European colleagues in the field of ICT in public administration to contribute in retrospective mode to a celebratory event and, from that, to write up their thoughts for this journal has proved a great success. Miriam Lips’ collection of these essays, together with her own thoughtful contributions should prove of value to scholars working in this field, not least for the w...

how to cite this article : ajami s, maghsoudlorad aa. the role of information systems to manage cerebral palsy. iran j child neurol.spring 2016; 10(2): 1-9. abstract objective in healthcare system, it is necessary to have exact and accurate information in order to address health care needs and requirements of society members as well as expectations of policy makers, planners and decision makers...

This study presents the first population-based report on breast cancer in the Islamic Republic of Iran using data derived from a cancer registry. A retrospective study was conducted to find all new breast cancer cases in 5 provinces covered by the cancer registry during the 5-year period 1996-2000. There were 2421 cases recorded in the 5 registries. The age-standardized incidence rate (ASR) was...

prevalence of spinal cord injury (sci) in iran is considerable and developing a national registry is substantial. registry can be a foundation of efforts for patient care improvement, clinical research facilitation, preventative strategy formulation and policymaking for better support of patients. with respect to long-term and multiple consequents of the lesions that will have a negative impact...

this study was undertaken to define the epidemiological aspects of thyroid carcinoma in iran, an area of endemic iodine deficiency nearly until recently. the tehran cancer institute data system registry (tcidsr) was used to identify patients with different histological types of thyroid cancer (tc) in iran. data were analyzed from 438 thyroid cancer cases identified by the tcidsr in 1998-99. dis...

periodic evaluation and monitoring the health and economic outcome of joint replacement surgery is a common and popular process under the territory of joint registries in many countries. in this article we introduce the methodology used for the foundation of the national iranian joint registry (ijr) with a joint collaboration of the social security organization (sso) and academic research depar...

prevalence of spinal cord injury (sci) in iran is considerable and developing a national registry is substantial. registry can be a foundation of efforts for patient care improvement, clinical research facilitation, preventative strategy formulation and policymaking for better support of patients. with respect to long-term and multiple consequents of the lesions that will have a negative impact...