Summary Team-based learning (TBL) is a well-established instructional strategy that provides students with the chance to apply conceptual knowledge through a series of actions, including pre-class, individual, team class activity, and immediate feedback. The purpose of the present study was to introduce a course of teaching the evidence-based medic...

By Mandana Akbarinejad Mousavi, Mitra Amini, Somayeh Delavari, Ali Seifi

Composite materials used for the restoration of lost dental tissues fulfill almost all functional and aesthetic requirements. However, polymerization shrinkage still remains the main problem of light-curing composite resins. The consequences of this phenomenon are microfractures and microleakage in the marginal areas of the composite restoration. T...

By Stefan Dačić, Milan Miljković, Aleksandar Mitić, Marija Nikolić, Marko Igić, Milica Jovanović

Summary Bilomas represent large collections of bile, produced due to a rupture of bile ducts. Most frequently, they are located in the perihepatic tissues, rarely intrahepatic ones. Usually, bile ducts rupture is caused by trauma, spontaneous or iatrogenic, or some underlying disease. The majority of bilomas cases are treated by means of drainage p...

By Aleksandra Radovanović, Miljan Krstić, Jasmina Gligorijević, Aleksandra Veličkov, Marko Stojanović

Summary Anemia is defined as blood hemoglobin concentration of less than 120 g/l in women and less than 130 g/l in men. The main cause of the development of anemia in patients treated with regular hemodialysis is the lack of endogenous erythropoietin, and its main clinical consequences are: progressive decline in residual renal function, developmen...

By Saša Jacović, Milena Jovanović, Nedim Hamzagić, Radiša Pavlović, Dejan Petrović

ERRATUM The article entitled “Evaluation of Prognostic Factors Involved in Seroma Formation after Radical Surgery for Breast Cancer“, authored by: Miodrag Djordjević , Toplica Bojić , Lidija Djordjević , Dragana Budjevac , Nebojša Djordjević, Nebojša Ignjatović, Ivan Pešić, Ana Cvetanović , Mladjan Golubović , Jo...

Summary Monosodium glutamate (MSG), an established excitotoxic food additive, has been found to induce oxidative stress in all tissues. To examine the protective effects of ivermectin on MSG-induced excitotoxicity, 28 male albino rats were randomized into four groups. Group 1, the control, received 1 ml of oral distilled water, group 2 was administ...

By Rotimi O. Arise, Abimbola K. Arise, Oluwole I. Oyewole, Sylvia O. Malomo

Summary Understanding physical, psychological and social needs is the basis for disease management. The purpose of this study was to investigate the informational, psychological, and social needs of patients undergoing chemotherapy. The present study is a descriptive-correlational one conducted on 400 patients undergoing chemotherapy visiting a tea...

By Elham Hasani, Hossein Namdar Areshtanab, Hossein Ebrahimi

The aim of the study was to analyze the characteristics {sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value (PPV), negative predictive value (NPV) and credibility} of tests for microbiological diagnosis of infections caused by Clostridium (C. difficile). The research was done at the Public Health InstituteNiš, the Center for Microbiology du...

By Predrag Stojanović, Niko Radulović, Branislava Kocić, Marina Dinić, Biljana Miljković-Selimović, Kristina Stojanović

Visceral leishmaniasis (VL) is a protozoan disease caused by some Leishmania donovani complex species and is considered as an endemic zoonotic parasitic disease in Iran. This study was performed to determine the prevalence of human VL in Iran. Data were systematically gathered from 1985 to 2018 in Islamic republic of Iran from the following electro...

By Vahid Rahmanian, Karamatollah Rahmanian, Abdolreza Sotoodeh-Jahromi, Saied Bokaie

Summary Generally, progress, productivity and success of any organization depends on the skills and knowledge of their manpower. Thus, better and more accurate training programs in organizations will lead to their growth and efficiency will be eventually achieved. Due to the many advances in the field of medicine, nurses are the backbone of activit...

By Neda Safaeifard, Hossein Namdar Areshtanab, Fariborz Roshangar, Hossein Ebrahim, Hossein Karimi Moonaghi, Raheleh Janani