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Tahere Baloochi Beydokhti, Ali Mohamadpour, Sadegh Shabab, Hamid Nakhaee,
Volume 19, Issue 5 (3-2014)
Abstract
Aims: Medication errors as a global problem can lead to serious injury and even the patients’ death. The errors will have a negative impact on patients, medical personnel and organizations, resulting in decreased quality of care. This study aimed to determine the factors associated with drug error and barriers of their reporting.
Methods: In this descriptive and analytic study, 150 medical staff with a minimum experience of 6 months in the hospitals affiliated to Gonabad University of Medical Sciences were selected by census sampling in 2011. The data were collected by a demographic form and medication error questionnaire which included occurrence and report of errors, related factors, and barriers in reporting them. Content validity and Cronbach›s alpha coefficients (α=0.81) were used for validity and reliability, respectively. The data were analyzed by SPSS software V.16 using descriptive and inferential statistical methods.
Results: The mean age of participants and their work experience were 30.63 and 6.5 years, respectively. Majority of them were women (70%), married (82%) and nurses (78%) with a mean error reporting 1.15. Most factors associated with the occurrence of errors were the altered doctor›s orders, high workload, and lack of staff. Further, the barriers of reporting of errors included lack of clear guidelines for reporting errors, barriers of staff, and management barriers.
Conclusion: According to the importance of patient safety, it is recommended that managers provide interventions to reduce errors in health care workers and if errors occur, they should offer a recording system for reporting them without fearing of the consequences.
Maryam Farazande, Sadegh Shabab, Maryam Mahmoudabady, Zahra Gholamnezhad,
Volume 28, Issue 1 (Winter 2021)
Abstract
Aims: Nowadays, herbal medicine is commonly used due to the side effects and high costs of chemical medicines. Cinnamon appears to be effective in the prevention and treatment of a variety of diseases, which is used in both food industry and traditional medicine. This study aims to review the effects of cinnamon on the occurrence of cardiovascular diseases and their related risk factors.
Methods & Materials: In this review study, the search was conducted using the keywords in English including Cinnamon, Cinnamomum, Cinnamaldehyde and Heart, Cardiac, and Cardiomyopathy based on MeSH terms and the keywords in Persian for the related articles in Web of Sciences, PubMed, ScienceDirect, Scopus, Google Scholar, and Scientific Information Database (SID) databases published until March 2021. Out of 205 studies, 51 experimental and clinical human and animal studies were reviewed.
Findings: The results of studies reported the effects of cinnamon on the risk factors of cardiovascular diseases such as hyperlipidemia, hypertension and oxidative stress.
Conclusion: The majority of human and animal studies have shown that cinnamon prevent and treat cardiovascular diseases by lowering oxidative stress and improving blood pressure and blood lipid parameters.
