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Clinical symptoms, laboratory, and microbial patterns of suspected neonatal sepsis cases in a children's referral hospital in northwestern Iran.
(2018)
Sepsis is the systemic response to infection manifested as hyperthermia or hypothermia, tachycardia, tachypnea, and shock. This condition represents a major life-threatening factor in all age groups, particularly in neonatal ...
Threats to nurses' dignity and intent to leave the profession.
(2018)
It is essential to pay attention to and respect the dignity of nurses to maintain them in their profession while they deliver skilled nursing care. Little is known, however, about how a sense of dignity influences the ...
Nurse's perceptions of organisational barriers to delivering compassionate care: A qualitative study.
(2018)
Compassionate care is an international priority of healthcare professionals. There is little understanding about how workplace issues impact provision of compassionate care in nursing practice. Therefore, it is important ...
A decade of road traffic fatalities among the elderly in north-West Iran.
(2018)
Iran has a uniquely catastrophic status for road traffic injury incidence and fatality. The elderly account for a substantial number of the hospitalizations and fatalities due to traffic injuries. The aim of this study was ...
The identification of risk factors associated with patient and healthcare system delays in the treatment of tuberculosis in Tabriz, Iran.
(2018)
Tuberculosis (TB) is a serious health concern, particularly in developing countries. Various delays, such as patient delay (PD) and healthcare system delay (HSD) in the TB process, are exacerbating the disease burden and ...
Analysis of CTLA-4 + 49A/G gene polymorphism in cases with leprosy of Azerbaijan, Northwest Iran
(2018)
Leprosy, which is developed by the obligate intracellular Mycobacterium leprae (ML); has different manifestations, associated with the host immune responses. The protective immune response against ML includes T-cell-mediated ...
MIR196A2 rs11614913 contributes to susceptibility to colorectal cancer in Iranian population: A multi-center case-control study and meta-analysis
(2018)
Maturation of MIR196A2 as a gene regulator with a high potential for targeted cancer therapy can be modulated by the rs11614913 polymorphism. Several studies evaluating the association between this variant and pathogenesis ...
Relationship between happiness and tobacco smoking among high school students.
(2018)
Recent research has described negative relationship between happiness and habitual smoking among adolescents. No study of this relationship has been conducted among Iranian adolescents. The aim of the present study was to ...
Work-related physical, psychosocial and individual factors associated with musculoskeletal symptoms among surgeons: Implications for ergonomic interventions.
(2018)
This study evaluated the effect of physical, psychosocial and individual factors on the presence of musculoskeletal symptoms (MSS) among surgeons (nآ =آ 312) in Iran. Data were collected using questionnaires and analysed ...
The burden of pure anisometropic amblyopia: a cross-sectional study on 2800 Iranians.
(2018)
To assess the proportion of pure anisometropic amblyopia in a sample Iranian (white) population.A total of 2800 consecutive individuals who presented at a referral eye clinic for any reason were examined for the presence ...