Prognostic values of modified NUTRIC score to assess outcomes in critically ill patients admitted to the intensive care units: prospective observational study.

Purpose: Modified Nutrition Risk in the Critically Ill (NUTRIC) score (mNUTRIC score) have been validated as screening tool for quantifying risk of adverse outcome critically ill patients admitted to the intensive care units (ICUs). The aim of this study was to evaluate the prognostic value of mNUTRIC score to assess outcomes in this population.

Materials And Methods: This prospective, observational study was conducted on adult patients admitted to the general ICUs of two university affiliated hospital in northwest of Iran.

Interpersonal Continuity of Care and Its Effect on Health Care Utilizations and Expenditures for Diabetes: An Experience From a Fragmented Health System.

We aimed to quantify continuity of care (COC) and investigate its association with health care utilizations and expenditure among patients with diabetes. This was an observational retrospective cohort study using administrative claims database of Iranian Health Insurance Organization for East Azerbaijan Province, Iran. Standard indices of COC were calculated for each patient, and their associations with utilization outcomes were determined by applying general linear regression models.

A clinical trial of silver-coated and tapered cuff plus supraglottic suctioning endotracheal tubes in preventing ventilator-associated pneumonia.

Purpose: Novel designs of the endotracheal tube (ETT) are emerged to reduce the risk of ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP). We evaluated the effect of two different types, namely silver-coated (Bactiguard) and subglottic suctioning (Taperguard) ETTs, on the incidence of VAP in critically-ill patients.

Methods: A total of 90 patients, mechanically ventilated for >72 h, were randomly assigned to Bactiguard and Taperguard groups.

Ventilator-associated pneumonia in patients admitted to intensive care units, using open or closed endotracheal suctioning.

Background: Critically ill patients under mechanical ventilation require frequent suctioning of airway secretion. Closed suction permits suctioning without disconnection from ventilator; so it might decrease hypoxemia and infection rate.

Objectives: This study aimed to evaluate the effect of closed tracheal suction system (CTSS) versus open tracheal suction system (OTSS).

Clinical pharmacy services in an Iranian teaching hospital: a descriptive study.

Objective: To understand the types of services provided by Iranian clinical pharmacists in nephrology and infectious disease wards, the acceptance rate of clinical pharmacy services in these wards by physicians and the clinical significance of these services in the main teaching hospital in Iran.

Setting: Nephrology and infectious disease departments of a university hospital in Iran.

Methods: During a 12-month prospective data gathering phase, details of all clinical pharmacy services in the nephrology and infectious disease wards of a large university hospital were recorded in the pharmacotherapy monitoring forms.