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Iranian clinical practice guideline for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a rapidly progressive neurodegeneration involving motor neurons. The 3–5 years that patients have to live is marked by day-to-day loss of motor and sometimes cognitive abilities. Enormous amounts of healthcare services and resources are necessary to support patients and their caregivers during this relatively short but burdensome journey. Organization and management of these resources need to best meet patients' expectations and health system efficiency mandates. This can only occur in the setting of multidisciplinary ALS clinics which are known as the gold standard of ALS care worldwide. To introduce this standard to the care of Iranian ALS patients, which is an inevitable quality milestone, a national ALS clinical practice guideline is the necessary first step. The National ALS guideline will serve as the knowledge base for the development of local clinical pathways to guide patient journeys in multidisciplinary ALS clinics. To this end, we gathered a team of national neuromuscular experts as well as experts in related specialties necessary for delivering multidisciplinary care to ALS patients to develop the Iranian ALS clinical practice guideline. Clinical questions were prepared in the Patient, Intervention, Comparison, and Outcome (PICO) format to serve as a guide for the literature search. Considering the lack of adequate national/local studies at this time, a consensus-based approach was taken to evaluate the quality of the retrieved evidence and summarize recommendations
Time analysis of fatal traffic accidents in Fars Province of Iran
【Abstract】 Objective: To analyze the time factor in
road traffic accidents (RTAs) in Fars Province of Iran.
Methods: This study was conducted in Fars Province,
Iran from November 22, 2009 to November 21, 2011. Victims’
information consisted of age, sex, death toll involving dri-vers or passengers of cars, motorcycles and pedestrians,
and site of injury etc. Accidents were analyzed in relation to
hour of the day, season of the year, lighting condition in-cluding sunrise, sunset, daytime and nighttime.
Results: A total of 3 642 deaths (78.3% were males, and
the ratio of males to females was about 3.6:1) were studied
regarding their autopsy records. There was a steady in-crease in fatal accidents occurring at midnight to 15:59. The
risk of being involved in a fatal traffic accident was higher
for those injured between 4:00 to 7:59 than at other times
(OR=2.13, 95% CI 1.85-2.44). The greatest number of fatal
RTAs took place in summer. Mortalities due to RTA during
spring and summer were more pronounced at 20:00 to 23:59
and midnight to 3:59, whereas mortalities in fall and winter
were more pronounced from 12:00 to 15:59.
Conclusion: The high mortality rate of RTA is a major
public health problem in Fars Province. Our results indicate
that the time is an important factor which contributes to
road traffic deaths.
Key words: Accidents, traffic; Epidemiology;
Mortality; Ira
Epidemiological characteristics of fatal pedestrian ac-cidents in Fars Province of Iran: a community-based
【Abstract】Objective: To determine the epidemio-logical characteristics of fatal pedestrian accidents in Fars
Province of Iran.
Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted in
Fars Province of Iran during a 29-month period from March
2009 to July 2011. The data were from the Fars Forensic Medi-cine Registry. In 4 923 recorded road traffic accident fatalities,
971 deaths were due to pedestrian accidents. The demographic
and accident-related information were analyzed by SPSS ver-sion 11.5. P value less than 0.05 was considered significant.
Results: The mean age of decedents was (47.2±26.2)
years, ranging from 6 months to 103 years old. Males ac-counted for 69.8% of all deaths. Fatal accidents were most
common in September; 56.1% of the fatal injuries occurred
on intracity roads and 33.1% on extracity roads. Fatal head
injuries were present in 60.54% of cases. Evaluation of the
injury site and the cause of death found that they were
significantly associated with age, interval between injury
and death. Besides, the type of roads played an important
role in mortality.
Conclusion: Although the clinical management of
trauma patients has been improved in our country in the
recent decade, decreasing the burden of injuries needs co-ordination among trauma system organizations.
Key words: Accidents, traffic; Epidemiologic studies;
Mortality; Ira
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Iranian clinical practice guideline for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a rapidly progressive neurodegeneration involving motor neurons. The 3-5 years that patients have to live is marked by day-to-day loss of motor and sometimes cognitive abilities. Enormous amounts of healthcare services and resources are necessary to support patients and their caregivers during this relatively short but burdensome journey. Organization and management of these resources need to best meet patients' expectations and health system efficiency mandates. This can only occur in the setting of multidisciplinary ALS clinics which are known as the gold standard of ALS care worldwide. To introduce this standard to the care of Iranian ALS patients, which is an inevitable quality milestone, a national ALS clinical practice guideline is the necessary first step. The National ALS guideline will serve as the knowledge base for the development of local clinical pathways to guide patient journeys in multidisciplinary ALS clinics. To this end, we gathered a team of national neuromuscular experts as well as experts in related specialties necessary for delivering multidisciplinary care to ALS patients to develop the Iranian ALS clinical practice guideline. Clinical questions were prepared in the Patient, Intervention, Comparison, and Outcome (PICO) format to serve as a guide for the literature search. Considering the lack of adequate national/local studies at this time, a consensus-based approach was taken to evaluate the quality of the retrieved evidence and summarize recommendations