This study evaluated the efficacy, safety, and quality of life (QoL) measure of transdermal fentanyl (TDF) for moderate-to-severe pain due to oral mucositis caused by chemoradiotherapy in patients with advanced nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC). Patients with NPC who experienced moderate-to-severe oral mucosal pain during chemoradiotherapy (n = 78) received TDF for pain relief. Pain relief and QoL...

Sir William Osler, the first physician-in-chief of the Johns Hopkins Hospital and later Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford, is judged by many to be the greatest clinician of the modern era. His life history of distinguished service to medicine and to society is well known. What is not so well known is his mischievous streak.

how to cite this article: shalbafan b. a family case report of niemman pick c with new mutation and different presentations. iran j child neurol. 2015 autumn;9:4(suppl.1): 20-21.   pls see pdf.

Since the dawn of human civilization here on Earth, health has always been a major evolutional concern. For as long as people realized that every human need calls for a profession to fulfill, there has been a constant requirement for health care providers. Throughout the history of medicine, it was usually the physician as a case given alone held responsible for the patient’s health. With time ...

Physician-patient communication is becoming increasingly complicated with the growing use of electronic health records (EHRs). While the EHR has shown benefits in some aspects of medical care, these improvements are often at the expense of patient-centered communication. Below are some reflections on this topic, as well as techniques to improve the clinician-patient interaction in the EHR era.

BACKGROUND In determining whether clinical decision support (CDS) should be interruptive or non-interruptive, CDS designers need more guidance to balance the potential for interruptive CDS to overburden clinicians and the potential for non-interruptive CDS to be overlooked by clinicians. OBJECTIVE (1)To compare performance achieved by clinicians using interruptive CDS versus using similar, no...

Claire Kendall, MD, is Deputy Editor at Open Medicine; an Associate Professor with the Department of Family Medicine, University of Ottawa; Clinician Investigator at the C.T. Lamont Primary Health Care Research Centre, Élisabeth Bruyère Research Institute; and a practising family physician with the Riverside Campus Family Health Team, Ottawa, Ontario. James Maskalyk, MD, is an Associate Editor ...

background : nasopharyngeal carcinoma (npc) is known as a highly distinct kind of head and neck cancer. this distinction is due to its clinical presentation, epidemiology, outcome, and treatment. there have not been any reports of epidemiological analysis of npc in iran. the aim of this study is to evaluate the incidence rates and trends of nasopharyngeal carcinoma in the iranian population dur...

The rapid development of new drugs, therapies, and devices has created a dramatic increase in the number of clinical research studies that highlights the need for greater participation in research by physicians as well as patients. Furthermore, the potential of clinical research is unlikely to be reached without greater participation of physicians in research. Physicians face a variety of barri...