Some physicians caring for critically ill patients have preferences for withdrawing some forms of life support over others, even after the decision to withdraw life support has already been made. Past research has attempted to explain these preferences by variations in clinical circumstances. The authors wondered whether differences in the forms of life support themselves might be important, an...

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OBJECTIVE To explore how students learn in community-based family physicians' offices from the student's point of view. METHOD Each student completing a community-based family medicine clerkship wrote a "critical incident" narrative about an event that was particularly educational. A coding system was developed by a multidisciplinary research team and thematic analysis was conducted. RESULT...

the main purpose of this article is to investigate the role of the great powers in the eight- year's old war between iran and iraq. due to the nature of the various variables involved in this study, we have to employ political as well as international theories. because of the effect on international political order on this war, it was realized that the approach taken by the neorealism incl...

Background: The Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic can have many adverse personal and professional consequences for physicians and medical students. Therefore, the present study aimed to investigate the psychological consequences of the COVID-19 disease in physicians and medical students during the pandemic. Materials and Methods: Using the census method, this cross-sectional study was conducted ...

BACKGROUND Non-AIDS co-morbidities are emerging as the main health problems for those living with HIV, and primary care for this population is an evolving challenge. Recent studies have raised the question of whether specialists or generalists are best suited to provide HIV primary care, but patients' actual usage patterns and the preferences of patients and providers have not been well studied...

interactions between physicians and nurses are regarded as an indicator to present the desirable care for the patient. the present study was conducted with aim of clarifying the status of communication and collaboration of nurses and physicians as well as the correlation between these two factors from the nurses' viewpoint. this research was a descriptive - analytical study of the cross-se...

in orders to promote the level of healthcare in societies, governments try to have different policies to transform the health system. the aim of this study was to measure the level of awareness of practitioners in iran, after initiating the new transformation of the health system in the country, starting from may 2014. this is a descriptive–cross-sectional study, which was inducted in october 2...

introduction: equity in health means justice in the distribution of community health. the purpose of justice in health is to consider health needs of all people regardless of their geographical location or cultural, economic, and social status. the aim of this study was to assess distribution of specialists based on population (100,000 people) in public hospitals of iranian provinces during 201...

Introduction. Need assessment is one of the most important steps in planning any educational program. In this Cross-sectional study, educational needs of general physicians were questioned in East-Azarbaijan. Methods. According to different need assessment sources and methods, educational needs and related learning objectives were determined for general physicians of Iran. Then considering ex...