Health care expenditures are projected to reach nearly 20% of the U.S. gross domestic product by 2020. Up to $765 billion of this spending has been identified as potentially avoidable; many of the avoidable costs have been attributed to unnecessary services. Postgraduate trainees have historically received little specific training in the stewardship of health care resources and minimal feedback...

We examined the effects of self-regulation of slow cortical potentials (SCP) in nine children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) by focusing on the changes in electroencephalographic (EEG) shifts during SCP sessions. In SCP training, individuals learn to increase and decrease their cortical excitabilities (enhancement of negative and positive cortical shifts). To examine the e...

BACKGROUND The time course and outcome of perceptual learning can be affected by the length and distribution of practice, but the training regimen parameters that govern these effects have received little systematic study in the auditory domain. We asked whether there was a minimum requirement on the number of trials within a training session for learning to occur, whether there was a maximum l...

Objective: To study maternal and neonatal outcomes, the nulliparous women submitted to a training program in third trimester. Materials and methods: This randomized controlled trial was carried out on 64 nulliparous pregnant women divided into two groups according to their participation including; training group; n=34 or not; n=34. The program consisted of 8 meetings (between the 28 th and the ...

despite various efforts towards empowerment of cooperatives in iran, much in agreement with this concept and strategies can not be observed. the purpose of this descriptive study was to investigate the solutions to empowering production cooperatives. the delphi technique was employed to do this study. the target population consisted of specialists in national provincial and specialists (n=15). ...

objective: this research aimed to study the effect of life skill training on mental health of iranian middle school students. method: this experimental study was conducted in 2015 on 100 students of city of ghaemshahr (north of iran), who were randomly selected and divided into two equal groups of intervention (n = 50) and control (n = 50). qualified trainers provided eight sessions (two sessio...