Ahmadi M,
Volume 65, Issue 14 (3-2008)
Abstract
Background: Immediately after Comprehensive Medical Basic Sciences Examination
(CMBSE), the secretariat of the Medical Basic Sciences Education Council (MBSEC)
proceeds to rank medical universities according to the students’ scores both in individual
academic subjects such as biochemistry, English and in all subjects put together. This
study believes that the method used in ranking the universities according to the students’
English scores is not a proper method and thus doesn’t provide accurate results.
Methods: Seven of the major and smaller universities were selected. The language
scores of all the students admitted to the medical schools of these universities during 3
academic years of 1378 to 1381 (2426 students in all) in both CMBSE and National
university Entrance Examination (NUEE) were obtained. The language scores of each
students in NUEE and CMBSE were matched.
Results: A significant correlation (max. R=69%, P<0.004 to min. R=27%, P<0.045) was
observed between these two grades in all universities studied. Moreover despite the
secretariat’s decision to calculate the scores and rank the universities in two separate
groups of major and small universities, in some CMBSEs certain smaller universities
were ranked in the group of major ones and in some others vice versa.
Conclusions: This has impaired the university ranking in the subject of English
language. This study proposes two different ranking methods, that eliminate the present
drawback in university ranking according to their student’s English scores.
Babak Mostafazadeh , Mohammad Hosien Kamaloddini , Fares Najari ,
Volume 75, Issue 6 (9-2017)
Abstract
Background: The death certificate is a document consisting of the deceased individual’s basic information and identification which is filled out, registered and signed by a doctor. the World health organization’s policies in their health planning, provide a suitable database with knowledge of the required elements for planners and other authorized information demanders. During a multi-year cooperation between various organizations, the first uniformed death certificate according the ICD-10 standard got published in the country in the year 2004.
Methods: This is a retrospective study which is about all of the deceased individuals in Tajrish and Modares Tehran hospitals from april 2013 until the march 2014 who had death certificates. In this study the data related to 777 individual’s death certificates and medical files was analyzed. The sampling method was census and all the cases in the study’s time period who had death certificates were studied. The cases that had a gap in their required information were ruled out of the study. The data that included age, sex, place of death, issuing doctor’s expertise, general information and the cause of death was extracted from the archived files.
Results: The cases studied, 421 people died in Tajrish Hospital and 356 in Modarres Hospital. The highest number of deaths in both hospitals were in the internal wards (336 cases) and surgery (168 people). 45.6% of death certificates have been issued by a forensic expert. 64.8% cases correctly inserted ICD-10 code.
Conclusion: Training of physicians for the importance of death certificate and how it should be completed is very important. This research showed that in the cases which the death certificates were completed by the hospital forensic medicine specialists were more useful and accurate. |
