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Volume 13, Issue 6 , November 2017
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نامه به سردبیر
Mostafa Amini-Rarani
Volume 13, Issue 6 , November 2017, Pages 386-387
Original Article
Sajjad Shokohyar; Anahita Safajoo; Amir Eslamjoo; Mohsen Rafiee
Volume 13, Issue 6 , November 2017, Pages 388-393
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Introduction: Pharmacy information system has many value-added features, and due to supporting a therapeutic approach and pharmaceutical care management, it is considered a revolution in health care provision. This study aimed to evaluate the success of the pharmacy information system in Shariati Hospital ...
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Introduction: Pharmacy information system has many value-added features, and due to supporting a therapeutic approach and pharmaceutical care management, it is considered a revolution in health care provision. This study aimed to evaluate the success of the pharmacy information system in Shariati Hospital in Tehran, Iran, based on the DeLone-McLean Model.Methods: This applied study was conducted through descriptive-analytical method. The required data were collected in 2015 using a questionnaire, the validity and reliability of which had been confirmed by experts and Cronbach's alpha coefficient, respectively. The study population consisted of 61 pharmacy staff members, and nurses and head nurses of gynecology, surgery, and pediatric wards of Shariati Hospital who were selected using convenience sampling. Data analysis was performed using structural equation modeling method.Results: The results showed that the system quality, information quality, and customer satisfaction indirectly influenced the success of the pharmacy information system.Conclusion: According to the results, the success of the information system in the investigated hospital's pharmacy was affected by the three important criteria of quality of the system, customer satisfaction, and quality of the information, respectively. Therefore, the consideration of these three factors can play an important role in improving current systems and creating new information systems.
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Azam Sabahi; Leila Ahmadian; Rezvan Ansari; Fatemeh Salehi; Moghadameh Mirzaei
Volume 13, Issue 6 , November 2017, Pages 394-398
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Introduction: Health knowledge acquisition, training, and controlling of risk factors of cardiovascular disease (CVD) can not only reduce healthcare costs, but can also improve the quality of life (QOL) of patients and help prevent re-hospitalization. The purpose of this research was to evaluate heart ...
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Introduction: Health knowledge acquisition, training, and controlling of risk factors of cardiovascular disease (CVD) can not only reduce healthcare costs, but can also improve the quality of life (QOL) of patients and help prevent re-hospitalization. The purpose of this research was to evaluate heart patients’ point of view on health knowledge acquisition and its role in the treatment process.Methods: This descriptive-analytical study was carried out on 200 patients with CVD. Data were collected using a questionnaire the validity and reliability of which were, respectively, confirmed by experts and by means of test-retest (20, 0.82). Data were analyzed using descriptive (frequency and percentage) and analytical statistics (chi-squared test and marginal independence).Results: After the diagnosis of heart disease, 80.5% of patients had tried to enhance their knowledge about their disease. To increase their knowledge, all of them (161 individuals) used the physician as a source of knowledge acquisition. Overall, 146 (90.7%) patients had acquired knowledge regarding the causes of the disease. A small percentage of the patients believed that educational CDs could help improve their knowledge.Conclusion: The results of this study can be used to plan for the improvement of health knowledge among patients. Determining the most common sources of knowledge acquisition can help in the provision of knowledge through these sources. This can also clarify the reasons for the lack of use of other sources.
Original Article
Reza Safdari; Leila Shahmoradi; Mojtaba Javaherzadeh; Mirmikail Mirhosseini
Volume 13, Issue 6 , November 2017, Pages 399-404
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Introduction: Acute appendicitis is the most common cause of admittance of patients with abdominal pain to hospital and appendectomy is the most commonly performed emergency surgery. Despite significant advances in the field of diagnosis, a significant number of negative appendectomies are reported. ...
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Introduction: Acute appendicitis is the most common cause of admittance of patients with abdominal pain to hospital and appendectomy is the most commonly performed emergency surgery. Despite significant advances in the field of diagnosis, a significant number of negative appendectomies are reported. In this study, the design and evaluation of artificial neural networks to help diagnose acute appendicitis was investigated.Methods: In this descriptive study, variables affecting the diagnosis were identified through literature review. Then, these variables were categorized in the form of a checklist, and evaluated and prioritized by general surgery specialists. The sample size was determined as 181 cases to train and evaluate the performance of neural networks. The database was created using records of patients who had undergone appendectomy during 2015 in Modarres Hospital, Tehran, Iran. Then, different architectures of artificial multilayer perceptron (MLP) neural network were implemented and compared in MATLAB environment to determine the optimal diagnostic performance. Parameters such as specificity, sensitivity, and accuracy were used for network assessment.Results: Comparison of the optimal output of the MLP with pathological results showed that the sensitivity, specificity, and accuracy of the diagnosis network were 68.8%, 82%, and 78.5%, respectively. Based on the existing standards and the general surgeons’ opinions, the MLP network improved diagnostic accuracy for acute appendicitis.Conclusion: The designed MLP can model the performance of an expert with acceptable accuracy. The use of this MLP in clinical decision support systems can be useful in the reduction of negative references to medical centers, timely diagnosis, prevention of negative appendectomy, reduction of the duration of hospitalization, and reduction of medical expenses.
Original Article
Alireza Dehghan; Marzieh Sadeghzadeh; Bahareh Baziyar; Amir Forougi
Volume 13, Issue 6 , November 2017, Pages 405-411
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Introduction: The structure of health care in developing countries demands the development of integrated systems of information technology in the medical field. However, the acceptance of physicians is a major obstacle to establishing e-health systems in such countries. Hence, the present study examined ...
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Introduction: The structure of health care in developing countries demands the development of integrated systems of information technology in the medical field. However, the acceptance of physicians is a major obstacle to establishing e-health systems in such countries. Hence, the present study examined a developed model of the factors affecting the acceptance of integrated e-health systems by Iranian physicians.Methods: This was a correlational study and the study population included the physicians working in the Fars and Bushehr Provinces, Iran. The sample consisted of 310 participants who were selected through stage cluster sampling and were asked to complete the Information Technology Diffusion in Healthcare Questionnaire. Path analysis and multiple regression technique were employed to explore the research model.Results: Beta coefficient was found to be significant in paths existing in the model and different indices also indicated the appropriate fitness of the data to the model. In addition, behavioral intention in using integrated e-health care systems is significantly affected by the two factors of perceived convenience and usefulness.Conclusion: Based on the findings of this research, policy-makers are recommended to take into account the 6 factors mentioned in the present study which are related to the acceptance of e-health systems in order to lay the appropriate cultural foundation to establish integrated e-health systems.
Original Article
Rashid Jafarzadeh; Davoud Haseli
Volume 13, Issue 6 , November 2017, Pages 412-419
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Introduction: In the recent decades, emerging and novel issues have been proposed in the field of reproductive biology leading to increased scientific outputs by scholars. Accordingly, this study sought to identify the scientific trend, the key contributors in this regard, and trend of subjects of research ...
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Introduction: In the recent decades, emerging and novel issues have been proposed in the field of reproductive biology leading to increased scientific outputs by scholars. Accordingly, this study sought to identify the scientific trend, the key contributors in this regard, and trend of subjects of research in the field of reproductive biology in Iran.Methods: In this applied and descriptive study, the available literature on embryology and reproductive biology was examined using scientometrics and network analysis methods. The study population consisted of all articles published by Iranian researchers in the field of reproductive biology and indexed in ISI database between 1973 and 2014.Results: The results showed that Iranian scientific output on reproductive biology began with an article in 1973, reaching the total number of 2805 published articles in 2014. Tehran University of Medical Sciences, with 457 publications, is the most important contributor. American and British authors have had the largest number of collaboration with Iranian researchers. Moreover, pregnancy risk factor was the most important research area.Conclusion: The scientific outputs of Iranian researchers in reproductive biology shows an uptrend since the year 2000, which can be attributed to scientific development programs. American and British authors are the key collaborators of Iranian researchers. Hence, greater attention to and collaboration with these countries can result in stronger scientific ties in the field of reproductive biology in Iran.
Original Article
Ali Mansouri; Zahra Javani; Mitra Pashootanizadeh
Volume 13, Issue 6 , November 2017, Pages 420-425
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Introduction: Medicine and its technology are the most important issues in the history of Islamic countries. However, their present condition in Islamic countries is not favorable. The aim of the present research was to assess the development of medical technology in Islamic countries through studying ...
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Introduction: Medicine and its technology are the most important issues in the history of Islamic countries. However, their present condition in Islamic countries is not favorable. The aim of the present research was to assess the development of medical technology in Islamic countries through studying their medical patents in United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).Methods: The current research was a descriptive and applied study. The study population included all medical patents of Islamic countries registered until 2014 in the USPTO. The data were collected through combining the fields of countries’ names and the search classification, and by using the USPTO software. The required information from each patent was extracted using the USPTO 2. PATREF 5 was used for citation information and GPS Visualizer software was applied for the visualization of the geographic information map.Results: The analysis of the data showed that among the 57 Islamic countries; only 26 countries, including Malaysia, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Iran, UAE, and Kuwait, had been active in medical inventions. The findings showed that subjects such as pharmaceuticals, organic compounds, molecular biology and microbiology, and medical and laboratory, dental, and optical, thermal, and electrical surgery equipment had the highest rank. The results also revealed that regarding medical patents, Islamic countries had the most communications with countries such as America, France, Canada, Germany, Great Britain, Japan, Malaysia, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Iran.Conclusion: The results of this study, in addition to providing Islamic countries’ authorities with knowledge on medical technology, and can be useful in macro and micro policies of Islamic countries in this field.
Original Article
Shahram Sedghi; Somayeh Ghaffari-Heshajin
Volume 13, Issue 6 , November 2017, Pages 426-431
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Introduction: Indexing of a country’s scientific journals in international citation indexes helps the promotion of that country’s academic rank in the world and increases their contributions to global knowledge production. The present study aimed to assess the conformity of Iranian medical journals ...
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Introduction: Indexing of a country’s scientific journals in international citation indexes helps the promotion of that country’s academic rank in the world and increases their contributions to global knowledge production. The present study aimed to assess the conformity of Iranian medical journals written in English that are not indexed in Scopus database with its objective acceptance criteria.Methods: The current applied descriptive study assessed the latest issues of 52 Iranian medical journals written in English that were not indexed in Scopus database. Data were collected through observing the journals’ websites and using a checklist. The collected data were analyzed in Excel software.Results: The results showed that 32.7% of the journals did not have foreign editors and 59.6% did not have foreign authors. According to the results, 77.6% of abstracts were structured. In addition, the amount of self-citations was low and more than 70% of journals were being published regularly. The findings also showed that 49% of journals had EndNote output.Conclusion: The studied journals were favorable in terms of most of the criteria, but required cooperation with foreign editors and writers and more EndNote outputs.
مقاله مروری نقلی
Mansoureh Feizabadi; Fatemeh Fahimnia; Nader Naghshineh; Shahram Tofighi; Alireza Mosavi -Jarrahi
Volume 13, Issue 6 , November 2017, Pages 432-437
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The aim of investment in health research is improvement of the state of policy-making, allocation of resources, practical application of research results, and improvement of public health. This has created an increased need for the assessment of the impact of such investments. Various studies have used ...
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The aim of investment in health research is improvement of the state of policy-making, allocation of resources, practical application of research results, and improvement of public health. This has created an increased need for the assessment of the impact of such investments. Various studies have used different indicators to assess the impact of medical research. In order to identify indicators of medical research impact assessment, this narrative review was conducted using 42 articles indexed in Web of Science, Scopus, and PubMed databases. A total of 82 indicators were identified, which were classified into 5 categories of knowledge production, capacity building, awareness of policies and product development, health effects, and economic effects. The majority of the identified indicators were related to knowledge production. Identifying impact assessment indicators helps investors in health research, organizations, and researchers to evaluate the impacts of their research from various aspects.
مقاله مروری نقلی
Hasan Ashrafi-Rizi; Niloofar Hodhodinezhad; Leila Shahrzadi; Mohammadreza Soleymani
Volume 13, Issue 6 , November 2017, Pages 438-444
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Access to valid and new health information as well as capabilities of medical librarians has highlighted their presence in various areas of health. The aim of the present study was to identify the new roles and services of medical librarians in the field of health. This narrative review was conducted ...
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Access to valid and new health information as well as capabilities of medical librarians has highlighted their presence in various areas of health. The aim of the present study was to identify the new roles and services of medical librarians in the field of health. This narrative review was conducted in 2014-2016. The Data was collected through studying the articles published on information databases like Magiran, SID, Noormags, PubMed, Science Direct, Emerald, and Web of Science during the past 15 years (2002 to 2016). The keywords used in this search included "medical librarian", "medical librarianship", "clinical librarian", "roles", "services", and other similar keywords. The new roles and services of librarians were identified after studying and evaluating the contents of the articles. The results showed that the areas of medical librarians’ activities go beyond libraries and according to their abilities and capabilities, they can offer their new services such as media literacy, information literacy, health literacy, health scientometrics, health information services, clinical services, health research services, and design and development of health information retrieval systems. In framework of their new roles and activities, medical librarians should satisfy patients and their families, medical staff, and students and faculty members in the field of health information.
