BACKGROUND Regardless of worries over clinical research and various initiatives to overcome problems, few quantitative data on the numbers and type of clinical research exist. This article aims to describe the volume and type of clinical research in 2002 and 2007 in Finland. METHODS The research law in Finland requires all medical research to be submitted to regional ethics committees (RECs)....

Teachers are evaluated in different ways. However, the most prevalent and controversial method is teacher evaluation by students. The present study was targeted at the examination of students’ view on the teachers’ evaluation criteria. Methods: The population of this descriptive cross-sectional study was 107 students of Paramedical Faculty of Urmia University of Medical Sciences that two of th...

Density is probably one of the most used indicators to characterize urban development. Even if it is a quantitative and properly defined measure, there are still problems to use it properly. This paper proposes a renewed approach to characterize urban density based on buildings’ footprints. It can be applied on huge datasets and allows multi-level characterization of density. We first present a...

The prevalence of integrons in five enterobacterial species was analyzed in 900 blood culture isolates from 1993, 1996, and 1999. Remarkably, the prevalence increased from 4.7% in 1993 to 9.7% in 1996 and finally to 17.4% in 1999 (P < 0.01). Within 7 years the combined percentage of P1 strong promoters and P1 weak plus P2 active promoters with high transcription efficacies has increased from 23...

،اًضيرم 96 ةساردلاب ينلومشلما ىضرلما ددع عومجم ناك :جئاتنلا لكل يرمعلا لدعلما ناكو ،62.5% مهنم روكذلا ةبسن لكشتو ناك ًاديدتح رثكأ لٍكشبو ،ةنس 58.9 ةساردلاب ينلومشلما ىضرلما ريغ ىضرلماو ،ةنس 30.8 ثداوحب ينباصلما ىضرملل يرمعلا لدعلما امك ،95.8% ماعلا تايفولا لدعم غلب .ةنس 62.9 ثداوحب ينباصلما ،يسفنتلا يبلقلا شاعنلاا قيبطت تلاوالمح ضفخنم لدعم ليجست تم ةلئاع دارفأ دحأ لبق نم ىفشتسلما ىلإ تلاالحا مظعم ...

We screened 533 and 361 methicillin (meticillin)-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strains isolated in a university hospital in 2002 and 2003 and in 2006 and 2007, respectively, and identified 4 (0.8%) of the strains in the first group and 8 (2.2%) of the strains in second group as heterogeneous vancomycin-resistant S. aureus (heterogeneous VISA) strains and 3 (0.8%) of the strains in the second ...

Strong final state interaction (FSI) effects can play a central role in the Standard Model prediction of weak K → 2π matrix elements. Here, I discuss how FSI's affect the direct CP violation parameter ε ′ /ε by solving the Omnès problem for the necessary K → 2π amplitudes. The main results of this analysis have been reported in a previous paper 1 and are further discussed in Refs. 2,3. The resu...

BACKGROUND Physicians are expected to perform three unique roles as a clinician, educator, and researcher in university hospitals. However, the actual practices of physicians performing different duties are relatively unknown. Therefore, the authors conducted an observational study at a university hospital to examine physicians' work activities. METHODS Between 2011 and 2013, ten observers sh...

In 2016, a new university hospital merged from three former independent Austrian hospitals started its operation. This paper presents a process model developed to coordinate the IT migration after the merger, using five phases to meet the requirements of the specific setting. A methodological mix of interviews, surveys and workshops was applied during the IT migration process. High stakeholder ...

OBJECTIVE To identify the work process, the psychic workloads and the strains generated in nursing workers. METHOD The study was developed in five Brazilian university hospitals. The sample was composed by 62 nursing workers and the data collection was done by focal group technique, followed by the application of a collective inquire. The data were quantitatively described and systematized ac...