Publications by authors named "Mansoor Rastegarpanah"
Objective: Medical errors are the third leading cause of death in the U. S., with medication mistakes being a common issue.
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- Aiming to improve treatment for moderate to severe ulcerative colitis (UC) and Crohn's disease (CD), experts developed an Iranian consensus on the use of biologics and small molecules in pharmacotherapy.
- The consensus was based on a Delphi process, which involved reviewing 219 studies and obtaining expert votes to establish agreements on management strategies.
- Ultimately, 87 statements achieved a high level of consensus (≥80% agreement) to guide gastroenterologists in optimizing care for patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).
Silymarin (SMN) as an ancient plant has various therapeutic usage in many diseases. Almost all of its properties attributed to antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties. Currently, infertility problems impose a heavy burden on many developing countries.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The recognition of patient safety is now occupying a prominent place on the health policy agenda since medical errors can result in adverse events. The existence of confusing drug names is one of the most common causes of medication errors. In Iran, the General Office of Trademarks Registry (GOTR), for four years (2010-2014) was responsible for approving drug proprietary names.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: This study was conducted to evaluate the incidence of medication discrepancies and its related factors using medication reconciliation method in patients admitted to the emergency department of Tehran University of Medical Sciences hospitals.
Methods: In this cross-sectional study, 200 adult patients with at least one chronic disease that used two regular prescription medications were included in 2015. After 24 h of admission, demographic data and patient's home medications were collected.
Background: Medication errors is a prominent issue on the health policy agenda due to its significant human and financial costs; confusing drug names are one of the most common causes of them. This issue necessitates the adoption of a mechanism to restrict such a confusion before approving drug names.
Objective: Following the establishment of a committee and developed relevant criteria as mechanisms to address the issue of drug names similarity Iran, there were problems in this process.
Objective: The objective of this study is to describe the process of training valid simulated patients (SPs) for assessing communication and counseling skills of pharmacy students' performance.
Methods: This is a cross-sectional and correlational study. Psychometric properties of checklist and SPs' portrayals and their filling of the checklist regarding assessing pharmacy students were assessed.
Objective: To evaluate the clinical efficacy of silymarin in ulcerative colitis (UC) patients.
Methods: A randomized double blinded placebo-controlled clinical trial was conducted in 80 UC patients whose disease had been documented and were in remission state between September 2009 and October 2010. Patients were assigned to silymarin group (42 cases) and placebo group (38 cases) using a random number table.
Background: The use of antioxidants in the treatment of infertility has been suggested and recent studies have indicated that oral administration of Satureja Khuzestanica essential oil (SKEO) to rats induces significant antioxidative effects.
Objective: This systematic review was conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of antioxidants in infertility and also to assess the effectiveness of Satureja Khuzestanica in infertility management.
Materials And Methods: Pubmed, Scopus, and Cochrane Library were searched for relevant trials published from respective database inception dates to August 2010.