schizophrenia is one of the most severe psychiatric disorders and 25% of the patients need long term hospitalization. they have somatic illness that may be ignored and lead to death. considering the lack of information regarding the causes of death in schizophrenic patients, the aim of this study was to determine the main causes of death in the long term hospitalized schizophrenic patients in s...

introduction: pediatric intensive care unit (picu) has a specific location for management of children with serious and severe diseases. methods: this is s crass-sectional – analytical study was performed on all children admitted in boali hospitals picu from march 2010 to march 2012 (2 years). 937 patients were analyzed. results: out of 490 patient admitted in picu (march2010 to march 2011), 35 ...

background: several factors influence on the outcome  of ischemic stroke. the aim of this study was determination the relationship  between stroke mortality and red blood cell parameters. methods: this cross-sectional  study was conducted  from 2011 july to june 2012. for all patients with ischemic stroke in middle  cerebral  artery  (mca)  territory, the  cell blood count test was performed. w...

background : fourniers gangrene caused by synergic aerobic and anaerobic organism is a life threatening disorder.   methods : the medical records of 8 among 839 patients admitted to imam ali general hospital zahedan university of medical sciences with fourniers gangrene during the 10 months period between 2012 and 2013 were reviewed.   results : the most common etiology and presentation were ab...

objectives: the purpose of this multi-center study was to investigate the probable predictive factors of mortality and morbidity in elderlypopulation. methods & materials: the descriptive prospective study was conducted based on the data gathered from trauma cases older than 65 years admitted to sina, shohada and fayaz-bakhsh trauma centers during years 1997-98. a pre-prepared questionnaire inc...

in this study the causes of mortality in children less than 5 years of age has been investigated. in this retrospective cross-sectional study, results were analysed by a descriptive analytic method. the investigation was carried out among 597 children less than 5 years including 296 boys and 301 girls. the sample was selected by census method and the necessary information was collected using qu...

background: improving the neonatal health and reducing the neonatal mortality rate is valuable for not only health reasons, but social, psychological and economic reasons. it has advantages not just for the neonatal period of life but for the whole life. unfortunately in iran, in spite of efforts, there has been little success in decreasing the neonatal mortality rate. since investigating the c...

to identify the characteristics of completed suicide by burning in tehran. a retrospective analysis of data obtained from tehran's legal medicine organization and judiciary system over 5-years (from 2002 to 2006). during the 5 years, 374 decedents (64.2% female and 35.8% male) were diagnosed as suicide by self-burning, and the annual incidence rate was 0.9 per 100,000 general population-years. ...