Introduction: Frostbite is a common debilitating condition seen in travelers and residents at high altitudes. Emergent on-site management is warranted in the absence of institutionalized care and compromised evacuation facilities. This prospective, observational study assessed the outcome of on-site emergent management in low-resource, high altitude healthcare setups in the fie...

OBJECTIVE The goal was to examine nursing team structure and its relationship with family satisfaction. METHODS We used electronic health records to create patient-based, 1-mode networks of nursing handoffs. In these networks, nurses were represented as nodes and handoffs as edges. For each patient, we calculated network statistics including team size and diameter, network centrality index, p...

to understand the traditional description of medicine as a practice of healing, it is necessary to examine its relationships with both science and ethics. the “scientific” component of medicine includes an acknowledgment of the influence of social, cultural and environmental factors on the functioning of the organism. the “ethical” component is often presented as merely supplementary but actual...

A CRITICAL CHECKLIST of the 54 species of ahermatypic Scleractinia known from the Hawaiian Islands is given. Based on a collection of approximately 1,150 specimens from 186 stations, new records are documented for 42 of these species, including 19 new records for the Hawaiian Islands, 8 of these being new species. A synonymy, discussion, and distribution are given for each of the 42 species col...

introduction: health information plays a vital role in managers' decision making and planning. health information in the form of medical records is also useful for caregivers, quality assessment, financial payments, legal measures, education, research and planning. in this study, to examine the managers and personnel's viewpoints about the application of medical records. methods and material: i...

the andeka earthquake of 25/09/2002 (mw = 5.6) shocked the northeast region of the city of masjed-soleyman in zagros folded belt. the event caused no life loss but 4 people were reported to be injured. the quake occurred in the southern parts of the zagros belt in an oil-rich area. no damage could be observed in the masjed-soleyman dam site, which is the most important hydroelectric infrastruct...