conclusions our results suggested that the prevalence of prescription drugs, alcohol and illicit substance use was relatively low, though still significant, among iranian students, which was strongly associated with family and friends’ use. the findings of this research can be used for planning and evaluating interventions by considering the risk factors and protective factors in universities. ...

background and aim: giving improper prescriptions is common among medical practitioners, mostly graduates, in most communities even developed countries. so far, to our knowledge, no study has been conducted on prescription writing of graduate midwifery students. therefore, this study aimed to detect prescription writing errors of midwifery students in common gynecological problems. methods: in ...

one hundred and fifteen prescriptions which were purposely written in toxic and potentially fatal dose of different medicine (mainly digitoxin) were sent to pharmacies throughout iran. all pharmacies filled up the prescription and only one pharmacist made notice of dangerous dose. the pharmacist in the drugstores in iran is forcefully employed by the owner of the pharmacy which is required by l...

the goal of this study is to identify the types of potentially inappropriate drugs prescribed by the medical specialists of isfahan province to elderly patients. a number of 31,254 randomly selected prescriptions from medical specialists of isfahan province were reviewed for elderly patients who were insured by the social security organization. three thousand and seven prescriptions were identi...

Giant planets embedded in protoplanetary disks (PPDs) can create annulus density gaps around their orbits the type-II regime, potentially responsible for ubiquity of annular substructures observed PPDs. Despite substantial amount works studying planet migration and gap properties, they are almost exclusively conducted under viscous accretion disk framework. However, recent studies have establis...

PurposePencil-beam scanning proton therapy is particularly sensitive to anatomic changes, which may affect the delivered dose distribution. This study examined whether offline adaptation using on-treatment magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan during could improve plan quality for pediatric patients.Methods and MaterialsPediatric patients with at least 1 MRI in treatment position (MRItx) betwee...

detection of brain tissues using magnetic resonance imaging (mri) is an active and challenging research area in computational neuroscience. brain mri artifacts lead to an uncertainty in pixel values. therefore, brain mri segmentation is a complicated concern which is tackled by a novel data fusion approach. the proposed algorithm has two main steps. in the first step the brain mri is divided to...