background: the study was conducted to estimate and compare the validity and performance of two screening methods for uri­nary schistosomiasis: the interview - reporting blood in urine- and detecting microhematuria by reagent strip. methods:  in year 2003, 515 schoolchildren from five schools in abyan and taiz governorates in yemen, were in-terviewed by healtworker for hematuria, and then urine...

introduction: implementation of hospital information system (his) depends on the complete organizational change in which most effective factors need to be considered. since the most important factor is human resources, training, survey, information and acceptance of the staff toward the his are also essential issues. we investigated the implementation of his in imam khomeini hospital. methods: ...

fuzzylogic computes a multi-criteria evaluation by means of either a boolean analysis, weightedlinear combination (wlc) and ordered weighted averaging (owa) of factor images. owa works withstandardized factor images and employs a variant of the wlc. it takes into account the risk associated withthe decision and degree of tradeoff associated with the variables in the analysis. in this research, ...

introduction: implementation of professional standards as well as evaluation and assessments of providers has an important role in health promotion of each society. the purpose of this study was to assess the midwives working at midwifery offices as to performance of professional standards and effectiveness of continuous evaluation and education on them. methods: this is an interventional study...

background: medical education has dramatically evolved in the past decades, and scholarly behaviors have gained popularity. in this study, scholarship-of-teaching activities from mashhad university of medical sciences (mums) were evaluated for the first time in this country. methods: data related to all applicants who were nominated for promotion to associate and full professor positions were s...

background & objectives: the purpose of this study was evaluating the hearing status of tinnitus patients referred to our center. materials & methods: a total of 144 patients, referred to our center by the end of december 2008 to june 2009, who have tinnitus complaints after initial examination and cleaning the ear duct in the audiology clinic were introduced and completed the questionn...

background nursing teachers have difficulties fulfilling multiple roles expectations and balancing the various dimensions of their roles that may lead to role strain. in order to lack of culturally and academically proper scale in iran to measure role strain in nursing teachers, localizing a foreign scale in this field is necessary. objectives the objective of this study was psychometric evalua...

introduction: the application of organizational ethics in hospitals is one of the novel ways to improve medical ethics. nowadays achieving efficient and sufficient ethical hospital indicators seems to be inevitable. in this connection, the present study aims to determine the best indicators in hospital accreditation. methods: 69 indicators in 11 fields to evaluate hospital ethics were achieved ...