Doctoral theses at the medical faculty of Tunis from 2015 to 2017: Scientific publication rates and associated factors.

Introduction: Medical doctoral thesis publication is a way to ensure knowledge dissemination and to increase the scientific research visibility.

Aim: To determine thesis-related publication's rate at the Faculty of Medicine of Tunis (FMT), and identify associated factors.

Methods: Cross-sectional retrospective study including medical theses registered at the FMT over the study period (2015-2017).

Mercurial hospital waste: management, becoming and recommendations.

Introduction And Purpose: In hospitals, the use of medical instruments and products containing mercury and the management of mercury waste (MW) collected are regulated in developed countries. In Tunisia, MW end up in landfill and no strategy has so far been adopted. The objective of this study was to quantify MW in two university hospitals in Tunis and to indicate the elimination pathways used and to propose certain recommendations.

Death certificate accuracy in a Tunisian Emergency Department.

Objective: Assess Death Certificates accuracy (DCs) issued by a teaching emergency department in Tunis.

Methods: It is a descriptive study. We included all death certificates issued in the Emergency Department of a teaching Hospital in Tunis over 17 months period (October 2013 - March 2014).

Critical study of pathology theses supported at the medical university of Tunis (2000-2010).

Background: Medical writing is a coded language; its purpose is to convey a scientific message. In pathology, specialty involving the study of cell and tissue, quantitative and qualitative production of medical doctoral theses and their thematic focus has not been studied. The aim of this study was to analyze the pathology theses on the level of form, the background and methodology.