INTRODUCTION As a common type of malignancy, breast cancer is one of the major causes of death in women globally. The purpose of the current study was to analyze Iran research performance on Breast Cancer in the context of national and international studies, shown in the publications indexed in Scopus database during 1991-2015. METHODS Data were retrieved from the Scopus citation database in ...

CONTEXT Alzheimer disease (AD) is the most common cause of dementia. In regards to the world's aging population, control and treatment of AD will be one of the major concerns of global public health in the next century. Alzheimer disease was not mentioned with the same phrase or its equivalent in traditional medical texts. The main of present paper was to investigate symptoms and causes of alzh...

background and objectives: questionnaire-based survey is the most common way of assessing patient satisfaction. however, most relevant survey instruments have been developed in western countries, and valid and reliable context-specific survey tools in this area are lacking. to help filling this gap, in this study we have developed and validated the preliminary version of the novel brief inpatie...

BACKGROUND Salt in Iranian medical sources is mentioned as Malh and has a special place in people's nutrition. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of correct use of salt on health and disease prevention in the context of Iranian medicine and its comparison with modern medicine. METHODS This article reviews Iranian medicine references on the usage of salt and its benefits. ...

CONTEXT Pre-hospital care plays a vital role in saving trauma patients. OBJECTIVES This study aims to review studies conducted on the pre-hospital emergency status in Iran. DATA SOURCES Data were sourced from Iranian electronic databases, including SID, IranMedex, IranDoc, Magiran, and non-Iranian electronic databases, such as Medline, Embase, Cochrane Library, Scopus, and Google Scholar. I...

Background and Objectives: Public-Private Partnership (PPP) is a well-established model to alleviate the risk of investment in health domain. While the model is widely applied in the developed countries, the adoption of the model in many developing countries is hampered partly by the lack of knowledge on dimensions and requirements of its local implementation. The present study...