Background: The pandemic situation created an overwhelmed needs for ICU facilities, according to this problem, the need of accurate the management of facilities represents bold. In this study, prognostic risk factors for ICU admission among COVID-19 hospitalized patients were evaluated. Methods: From 22 February to April 20, 2020. Totally,214 COVID-19 patients participated in this study. The i...

Rather general results are obtained for determining the nature of infinitesimal generators which can be admitted by a given differential equation. Simple criteria are given to determine whether or not (1) the infinitesimals of independent variables can depend only on independent variables and (2) the infinitesimal of the dependent variable can depend at most linearly on the dependent variable. ...

hyperglycemia, in trauma patient, is commonly associated with a hyper metabolic stress response. our objective is to determine the effects of hyperglycemia on the overall outcome of head trauma patients. in this descriptive study data were collected from head trauma patients' admitted to intensive care unit (icu) of poursina university hospital in a one-year period (jan 2004-jan 2005), retrospe...

the newly administered iranian ph.d. program entrance exam (ppee) is supposed to have had different washback effects on university curriculums. this qualitative study examined the effects of the new tefl ppee on the applicants’ study plans and strategies from the points of view of both iranian university instructors and applicants. to this end, we conducted in-depth interviews with 10 experienc...

An admission lounge is an emerging type of hospital facility that potentially improves the efficiency and efficacy perioperative process. We propose a five-step approach for design, suitability assessment, optimisation lounge. The uses case mix method to select patients lounge, clinical ward, or both. Also, it determines required ward capacities using Erlang loss model combined with novel analy...