Purpose: Coronary artery disease (CAD), clinically manifested as coronary syndrome (CS), is the leading cause of death and a significant contributor to morbidity worldwide. Elevated serum homocysteine levels have been associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular diseases, including CAD. Despite extensive research, the relationship between serum homocysteine and coronary syndromes with related short-term mortality is still under-studied.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Chronic liver disease is a growing global health problem, leading to hepatic decompensation characterized by an array of clinical and biochemical complications. Several scoring systems have been introduced in assessing the severity of hepatic decompensation with the most frequent ones are Child-Pugh score, model of end-stage liver disease (MELD) score, and MELD-Na score. Anemia is frequently observed in cirrhotic patients and is linked to worsened clinical outcomes.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: The main aim of this study is to know the loopholes in the feedback system, strategies to remove these loopholes, and to measure the effects of an efficient feedback system in an institution.
Methods: This research has three stages. In the first stage, we tried to find out the flaws in the feedback system of the institution based on published benchmarks.
Medical education is constantly evolving worldwide and facing various challenges. To cope with these, continuous and fruitful evaluation of an educational program is the need of the day. This study aims to know the purpose of evaluation, various theories related to program evaluation, and different models of curriculum and program evaluation.
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