background: sleep is an important aspect of healthy lifestyle. one of the prevalent diabetes mellitus-related non-vascular complications is sleep problems. the aim of this study was to investigate the effects of a non-pharmacological care plan designed based on the continuous care model (ccm) on sleep quality in patients with type ii diabetes with two month follow up. methods: this randomized c...

BACKGROUND The system and delivery of health care tend to suffer from fragmentation, resulting in discontinuous and costly care. Local cooperation between caregivers is essential to achieve appropriate, timely, continuous and efficient care. The article develops a general comprehensive patient-centered model of quality of care related to local cooperation between caregivers. The model can be us...

background: diabetic foot as a late complication of diabetes imposes high costs to the health care system. the present study aimed to investigate combinatorial educational program based on basnef model on foot care in type 2 diabetic patients referred to diabetes clinic of samirom city. methods: this study is a semi-empirical study, in which 164 eligible patients were selected after the pre-tes...

The pyloric network of the stomatogastric ganglion of the lobster generates motor patterns with speciic phase-lags between single neurons. This network inspired us to investigate a simpliied model consisting of three mono-directionally coupled Morris-Lecar oscillators. We have systematically analyzed the high-dimensional space of the synaptic parameters and identiied parameter combinations whic...

INTRODUCTION The aim of this study was to compare the effect of continuous care model with routine care on the quality of life among patients who receive a kidney transplant. MATERIALS AND METHODS In a randomized clinical trial, 90 kidney transplant patients were selected from 4 hospitals in Tehran, Iran, and were randomly assigned to 2 group. In the experimental group, continuous care model ...

Hudson prongs (Hudson RCI, Teleflex Medical, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina) (a device to deliver nasal continuous positive airway pressure) are often secured with a "Velcro mustache" in neonatal intensive care units. We report 2 premature infants who required bag-and-mask ventilation while on Hudson prongs secured with a Velcro mustache. Effective ventilation was achieved only after re...

background: identification of disease risk factors can help in the prevention of diseases. in assessing the predictive value of continuous variables, a routine procedure is to categorize the factors. this yield to inability to detect non‑linear relationship, if exist. multivariate fractional polynomial (mfp) modeling is a flexible method to reveal non‑linear associations. we aim to demonstrate ...