Psychometric of the Persian version of Quality of Life in Late-Stage Dementia (QUALID) in the elderly with Alzheimer's disease.

Background: Improving the quality of life (QoL) is a significant healthcare priority, and it is an important health outcome for elderly individuals with Alzheimer's disease. Quality of Life in Late-Stage Dementia (QUALID) is a specific scale used to measure the QoL in elderly individuals with Alzheimer's. So far, limited quantitative research has been conducted on the psychometric properties of this scale.

Paediatric visceral leishmaniasis: a retrospective study on clinical manifestations, demographic features and laboratory findings of hospitalised cases in Iran between 2006 and 2016.

Visceral leishmaniasis (VL) is a neglected disease. Our retrospective study describes 38 clinical and epidemiological characteristics of VL in patients admitted to a paediatric hospital in Tehran, Iran, who came from different geographical regions, indicating that the disease has spread to most parts of the country. Some 76.