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Kadivar M, Mohammadi Nasab H, Shah Mohammadi A,
Volume 59, Issue 1 (7 2001)
Abstract
This study was designed to determine if body mass index was predictive of mortality in a sample of seriously ill hospitalized patients in intensive care unit (ICU) of Children's Hospital Medical Center. There were 160 children from 1 month to 14 years in this prospective study for a period of 3 months in 1377. For all of the patients after calculation of BMI, the relation between age, sex, duration of illness, underlying diseases, positive family history of serious diseases, duration of admission in ICU, history of previous hospitalization, mechanical ventilation, albumin and PRISM score with mortality risk and outcome were determined. The percentile rank of BMI between 15 to 85 accepted as normal according to previous studies. In this survey the relation between BMI and outcome of the children in ICU were significant (P=0.0001). Also this relation was significant with the children in ages of 1 to 6 months, duration of hospitalization less than one or more than seven days, no surgery, mechanically ventilated patients. BMI, a simple anthropometric measurement of nutrition employed in community epidemiologic studies, has now been demonstrated to be a predictor of mortality in acutely ill children in ICU. Future studies examining variables predictive of mortality should include BMI.
Mohammadi N, Karbakhsh M, Pajoumand A,
Volume 65, Issue 4 (3 2007)
Abstract
Background: The object of this study was to determine the epidemiological characteristics of deliberate self-poisoning in adolescents referred to the only poisoning center in Tehran.
Methods: In a cross-sectional study, all cases of acute poisoning at the Loghman Hakim Hospital from May to December 2003 were reviewed. Data for adolescents (13-19 years of age) were analyzed by SPSS for Windows, version 13 and STATA, version 8.
Results: From a total of 9203 cases of deliberate self-poisoning, 28.5% were adolescents (2626 cases). The male/female ratio was 1/2.2. Approximately 87% were unmarried and 56% were students, while a total of 4859 different drugs/agents were used for self-poisoning (an average of 1.85 for each case). The majority of patients was from urban areas and had no history of attempted suicide. There was no difference between males and females regarding history of psychiatric and somatic disorders, though there was a significant difference in the average of age between male and female adolescents.
Conclusions: Among adolescents, self-poisoning is more common in girls while the mean of age is younger in boys. Although the prevalence of psychiatric disorders in adolescents appears to be less than the general population, this may be related to differences in their situations or due to underestimation of their frequencies. Psychiatric care should be a necessary component of the care administered to adolescents who attempt suicide and must be based on the needs and basic assessment of the patient’s status. Research regarding the familial history of abuse, neglect, self-harm/ poi- soning should be undertaken so that such social issues can be prioritized and addressed.
Tahereh Yaghoubi , Hamid Sharif Nia , Mobin Mohammadi Nejad , Azar Jafari , Mostafa Hoseinoo , Amir Hossein Goudarzian ,
Volume 78, Issue 2 (May 2020)
Abstract
Background: Long after the implementation of the “Health System Transformation Project”, no comprehensive assessment of patient and nurse satisfaction rate has been carried out in Iran based on available databases. Thus, this review study was designed and performed to answer this question: “How is the evaluation of the Health System Transformation Project in nurse and patient satisfaction dimensions.”
Methods: A systematic review of related studies based on preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analyses (PRISMA) guidelines was performed via keywords such as “Health System Transformation Project”, “Transformation Project”, “health”, “Iran”, “challenges”, “physician”, “nurse”, “patient”, and “satisfaction” to search Iranian (Magiran and Scientific Information Database, SID) and international databases (PubMed, ISI web of knowledge, Scopus, Google Scholar, and ProQuest) with OR and AND operators from March 2014 to April 2019. Also the quality of studies was assessed using STROB checklist (special for cross-sectional studies). Then required information (for example type of studies, sample size, mean age of participants and satisfaction score) were gathered from studies.
Results: From 43 articles that were gathered from primary stages, 18 articles were selected after passing different screening levels. On average, the level of patiaent satisfaction with the Health System Transformation Project was acceptable. Ghazvin province was seems more successful in satisfaction of patients against of other provinces. However, various positive and negative reports were found about the satisfaction of nursing groups. Generally, it seems that Tehran province (at the center of Iran) was more successful in performing the Health System Transformation Project (from the aspect of satisfaction of different groups).
Conclusion: Based on obtained results, patient’s satisfaction was appropriate in most of studies and also in nursing group was under average level.
