background: acute pain is common after arthroscopic surgeries and it is one of the most important causes of patient dissatisfaction, admission time and increased morbidity . gabapentin with anti-hyperalgesic effects can play a critical role in pre-emptive analgesia methods. the aim of this study was to assess the efficacy of gabapentin in pain management after surgery and the rate of drug consu...

background: noise-induced hearing loss (nihl) is one of the most common occupational diseases and the second most common cause of workers' claims for occupational injuries. objective: due to high prevalence of nihl and several reports of improper use of hearing protective devices (hpds), we conducted this study to compare the effect of face-to-face training in effective use of earplugs with app...

Objective: Jaundice is a common problem in infants, particularly premature infants (60-80%). The most common treatment of neonatal jaundice is phototherapy; however, traditional and complementary medicine is preferred due to complications of phototherapy in newborns. This study evaluates the effect of Chicory extract bath on bilirubin levels of infants with jaundice hospitalized in educational ...

Subgroup analyses of major randomized clinical trials in heart failure are published frequently, but their impact on medical knowledge and practice guidelines has not been previously reported. In a novel analysis, we determined number of citations, impact factors, number of authors, and citations in guidelines of both parent trials and sub-studies; we also qualitatively assessed whether the ana...

Background Decisions by leading journals to require trial registration and to make protocols of phase III randomized clinical trials (RCTs) publicly accessible were landmark events in clinical trial reporting. Materials and Methods We identified phase III cancer RCTs published between 2013 and 2015 in New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), The Lancet, The lancet Oncology, JAMA and Journal of...