Quality and safety in the health sector go “hand in hand”, which means that both components are inseparably linked - quality improvement will often affect more security. Good quality services will be successfully implemented in organizations that already have a "quality culture", i.e., where the value system of employees is consistent w...

By Aleksandar Višnjić, Vladica Veličković, Slađana Jović

In the recent years the exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) has been an important public health hazard, especially in Serbia, a country with too many smokers. A common component of tobacco smoke is particulate matter less than 10μm in aerodynamic diameter (PM10), which is considered to be the most dangerous air pollutant for health. Th...

By Maja Nikolić, Aleksandra Stanković, Ivana Mladenović Ćirić

In many physiological processes, peptides play a critical role as neurotrans mitters, hormones, antibiotics, etc. They have research importance in fields such as immunology, pharmacology, neuroscience and cell biology. There are many approaches for immunotherapies: some of them use the peptides as important components of chimeric molecules for immu...

By Nikolina Mihaylova, Andrey Tchorbanov

Palpable lymphadenopathy presents a serious diagnostic and therapeutic problem in primary care. The patients are often referred to a specialist with delay and even more often they are referred to unneeded diagnostic and therapeutic procedures. Empiric treatment with antibiotics and corticosteroids and extraction of often healthy teeth commonly lead...

By Stefan Lukić, Goran Marjanović, Jovana Živanović

A 64-year-old patient with extremely high number of white blood cells was diagnosed with T prolymphocytic leukemia. After the initiation of chemotherapy with Cyclophosphamide, Oncovin, Doxorubicin and Prednisone (CHOP), there was no improvement and the patient died within two months. Authors have made a review of the current therapy of this rare di...

By Goran Marjanović, Vesna Nikolić, Tomislav Vukićević, Lana Mačukanović Golubović, Dragana Drašković

Starting from reduced definition of health in terms of absence of disease and invalidity, the paper explains the applicability of three cardinal principles of economics (scarcity of resources and imperative of choice, opportunity costs, marginal analysis) on extremely sensitive area of economic evaluation of health care. An attempt was made to reco...

By Slobodan Cvetanović

Acute exacerbations of asthma are the major cause of morbidity and mortality of the disease and are difficult to prevent and treat. Asthma exacerbations are associated with several factors, including allergen exposure, air pollution and stress, but the major cause of exacerbations is respiratory virus infection. Respiratory viral infections cause &...

By Ivana Stanković, Zorica Ćirić, Milan Radović

Arteriovenous fistula (AVF) between the external iliac artery (AIE) and external iliac vein (VIE) after trauma is rare. Rarely, it occurs that fistula is accompanied by an aneurysm of external iliac artery. Two thirds of AVF occur after stab wounds, one third after puncture wounds and only one percent after blunt injuries. A 32-year-old male visite...

By Nenad Ilić, Milan Jovanović, Zoran Damnjanović, Goran Stanojević

Open tibial shaft fractures rank as the most common fractures of the locomotor system. External skeletal fixation, after primary open fracture wound management, stands for a good method in the management of open tibial shaft fractures, as it does not poses an additional threat to the bone vascularisation in the fracture area, which is important for...

By Ivan Golubović, Zoran Golubović, Aleksandar Višnjić, Stevo Najman, Nenad Ilić, Goran Đorđević, Nebojša Krstić, Milan Grubor

There are three adhesive restorative systems: etch and rinse (total etch), self etch and glass ionomer systems. Marginal gap and alteration of marginal enamel around composite and glass ionomer restoration may be influenced by the use of adhesive restorative procedure. The aim of this study was to evaluate the marginal integrity and morphology of t...

By Stefan Dačić, Dragica Simonović Dačić, Goran Radičević, Aleksandar Mitić, Goran Tošić, Ivan Ristić, Stefan Veličković