To assess the rapidly changing psychological status of nurses during the acute phase of the 2003 SARS outbreak, we conducted a prospective and periodic evaluation of psychiatric morbidity and psychological adaptation among nurses in SARS units and non-SARS units. Nurse participants were from two SARS units (regular SARS [N=44] and SARS ICU [N=26]) and two non-SARS units (Neurology [N=15] and CC...

In this letter, we propose a cooperative relaying system (CRS) combining orthogonal multiple access (OMA) and non-orthogonal (NOMA) for uplink transmission. the proposed system, cell-center user (CCU) amplifies forwards cell-edge (CEU) signal to base station (BS), meanwhile transmitting its own signals by NOMA. This win-win operation drives CCU CEU work together, is particularly useful when hol...

Medication errors are one of the important factors that increase fatal injuries to the patients and burden significant economic costs to the health care. An appropriate medical history could reduce errors related to omission of the previous drugs at the time of hospitalization. The aim of this study, as first one in Iran, was evaluating the discrepancies between medication histories obtained by...

Medication errors are one of the important factors that increase fatal injuries to the patients and burden significant economic costs to the health care. An appropriate medical history could reduce errors related to omission of the previous drugs at the time of hospitalization. The aim of this study, as first one in Iran, was evaluating the discrepancies between medication histories obtained by...

The PCIM CCU was set up in June 2006 from the Department of Internal Medicine at the University Hospital of Guadalajara, reaching out to primary care (PC), with the aim of achieving collaboration and coordination between the two levels of care and avoiding the sense of imposition that can be felt in primary care with regards all that comes from the hospital. To this end, several meetings were h...

The incidence of Ureaplasma urealyticum in endourethral swabs was compared with that in first voided urine specimens from 171 male patients. The organism was isolated from the urethras of 72 (42%) and from the urine of 66 (39%). The interval since last voiding urine did not significantly influence the incidence of infection or ureaplasma counts in either type of specimen. Urethritis was strongl...

Drug-drug interactions (DDIs) can lead to increased toxicity or reduction in therapeutic efficacy. This study was designed to assess the incidence of potential drug interactions (PDI) and rank their clinical value in post coronary care unit (Post-CCU) of a teaching hospital in Tehran, Iran.In this prospective study, three pharmacists with supervision of a clinical pharmacist actively gathered n...

This paper introduces a calculus for concurrent update (CCU) that is used to specify distributed objects. The calculus permits updates to be effected immediately at each site − no central server, locking, token passing, rollback, or other form of serialization is enforced. Notice of each update at each site is transmitted to every other site, where a corresponding update is effected. Unless spe...