Quality control of epidemiological lectures online: scientific evaluation of peer review.

abstract：AIM:To present our preliminary results with stentless aortic valve bioprostheses. METHODS:From November 2001 to February 2002, 15 patients (8 men and 7 women) underwent aortic valve replacement with aortic stentless bioprosthesis. The patients age ranged from 50 to 79 years (mean+/-SD, 63.3+/-5.7 years). Three patient...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Sutlić Z,Unić D,Rudez I,Biocina B,Barić D,Kontić M

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To determine the incidence of possible transfusion-related acute lung injury (TRALI) and related risk factors in cardiac surgery patients. METHODS:A single-center prospective cohort study was conducted from January 2009 to March 2010 at the Zagreb University Hospital Center, Croatia. Patient-, transfusion-, and su...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Zah-Bogovic T,Mesaric J,Hrabac P,Majeric-Kogler V

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To investigate the characteristics and determine risk factors for hantanvirus infection in natural focus of hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) on the Dinara Mountain, where outbreak of disease emerged among Croatian soldiers in 1995, and to describe the features of HFRS acquired on the Dinara mountain and...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Ledina D,Bradarić N,Borcić B,Turković B,Ivić I,Bakić J,Erceg M,Tvrtković N

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To analyze use and distribution of resources by otolaryngology (ENT) hospital wards in Romania between 2003 and 2008, in order to plan the improvement of patient access to health care services and health care services' financial performance. METHODS:Clinical electronic records were searched for all patients discha...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Stamate M,Chiriac ND

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Revised European-American Classification of Lymphoid Neoplasms (REAL) classification has been validated by a multi-institutional study, and project data showed that it is both reproducible and clinically relevant. The new World Health Organization (WHO) Classification of Neoplastic Diseases of Hematopoietic and Ly...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Jakić-Razumović J,Aurer I

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To analyze the incidence, transvaginal detection age, sonographic appearance, clinical course, and outcomes of pregnancy in cases with abnormal fetal brain structure and/or circulation, and to evaluate the clinical significance of sonographic abnormalities. METHODS:Serial observation of the fetal brain and intracr...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Pooh RK,Nakagawa Y,Nagamachi N,Pooh KH,Maeda K,Fukui R,Aono T

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To determine whether and in what concentrations the underground waters, stream waters, spring water, and tap water from the Zagreb area contain phthalates -- compounds used as plastic softeners, which have recently been ascribed carcinogenic, mutagenic, and teratogenic effects. METHOD:The presence of dimethyl phth...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Mihovec-Grdić M,Smit Z,Puntarić D,Bosnir J

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To examine ways of ensuring access to health services within the framework of primary health care (PHC), since the goal of PHC to make universal health care available to all people has become increasingly neglected amid emerging themes of globalization, trade, and foreign policy. From a public health point of view, we...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Sambala EZ,Sapsed S,Mkandawire ML

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

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journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Glasnović A

更新日期：2018-12-31 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To investigate what Zagreb University students think about professor-student dating. METHODS:We surveyed 500 students from ten different Zagreb University schools using anonymous questionnaires. Twenty-five female and 25 male students from each school were asked to assess professor-student dating as either accepta...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Pulanić D,Skunca M,Jureković R,Obadić A,Ostojić-Pulanić B,Petrovecki M

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To investigate the correlation between the length of the title of a scientific article and the number of citations it receives, in view of the common editorial call for shorter titles. METHODS:Title and the number of citations to all articles published in 2005 in 22 arbitrarily chosen English-language journals (n=...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Habibzadeh F,Yadollahie M

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To determine the prevalence and intercorrelation of different forms of childhood maltreatment and psychological problems in adolescents in Western Herzegovina Canton. METHOD:A questionnaire study was conducted in March 2003 on a convenient sample of 458 third-grade high-school students (39% boys) aged between 15 a...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Sesar K,Zivcić-Bećirević I,Sesar D

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To determine the stimulation site of both facial and hypoglossal nerves after transcranial magnetic stimulation. METHODS:After surgical exposure of the brainstem in 22 patients with intrinsic pontine (n=9) or medullary (n=13) tumors, the facial colliculus and the hypoglossal triangle were electrically stimulated. ...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Liscić RM,Morota N,Deletis V

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To evaluate molecular mechanisms of tissue-protective effects of antioxidants selenomethionine (SeMet) and D-pantethine (D-Pt) applied in combination with doxorubicin (Dx) in B16 melanoma-bearing-mice. METHODS:Impact of the chemotherapy scheme on a survival of tumor-bearing animals, general nephro- and hepatotoxic...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Panchuk RR,Skorokhyd NR,Kozak YS,Lehka LV,Moiseenok AG,Stoika RS

更新日期：2017-04-14 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To assess the ability to work and employability of individuals taking part in opioid substitution treatment programs (OSTP). METHODS:The study was composed of two surveys. In the first survey, 237 of 480 patients enrolled in OSTP responded to the questionnaire about their employment status, opinion about employmen...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Bilban M,Kastelic A,Zaletel-Kragelj L

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To assess long-term mental health outcomes in people who suffer from war-related posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) but do not receive appropriate treatment. METHODS:We interviewed 264 subjects from former Yugoslavia, who lived in Croatia, Serbia, Germany, and the United Kingdom. All of them had suffered from PT...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Priebe S,Matanov A,Janković Gavrilović J,McCrone P,Ljubotina D,Knezević G,Kucukalić A,Francisković T,Schützwohl M

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To define predictive factors for frequent attenders among preschool children in primary health care and investigate the association between socioeconomic factors and medical factors, as well as the reasons for child's appointment in the physician's office. METHODS:This retrospective study was conducted in 7 primar...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Stojanović-Spehar S,Blazeković-Milaković S,Bergman-Marković B,Matijasević I

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To evaluate the primary health care information system from the general practitioner's (GP) point of view. METHODS:Sixty-seven Croatian GPs were distributed a questionnaire about characteristics of the GP's office, overall impression of the application, handling of daily routine information, more sophisticated inf...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Andrijasević L,Angebrandt P,Kern J

更新日期：2012-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Academic medicine integrates three of the most honorable human activities: treating the ill, teaching, and research. The quality that all three share is persistent quest for truth. However, there is reluctance of academic medicine today to openly defend scientific truth by challenging the arguments and the very existe...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Marusic M

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Some aspects of the "impact factor", a quantitative measure of journals' influence on journals in scientific fields, were discussed in the preceding issue of the Croatian Medical Journal by Dr Eugene Garfield, one of its devisers. This factor can be of interest to authors, journal editors, and policy makers, but they ...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Huth EJ

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To determine sociodemographic features that describe mothers who are likely to wean their babies earlier then is recommended and whether the rates of breast-fed children in Croatia had improved since 1996. METHODS:A sample of 500 mothers was selected from the population of women who had delivered 2 to 12 months be...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Berović N

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To provide a screening tool to reduce time and sample consumption when attempting mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) haplogroup typing. METHODS:A single base primer extension assay was developed to enable typing, in a single reaction, of twelve mtDNA haplogroup specific polymorphisms. For validation purposes a total of 147...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Nelson TM,Just RS,Loreille O,Schanfield MS,Podini D

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article presents the basic facts about education, health care system, and academic medicine in Finland. The issue of the academic medicine in the world is discussed and Finnish models compared with those of the rest of the world. Possible solutions for the recovery of academic medicine, education, and research ar...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Stefanović V

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To compare the prevalence and characteristics of bullying between two towns in Bosnia and Herzegovina-Stolac, which was exposed to firearm conflict during the 1992-1995 war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Posusje, which was outside of the active combat zone. METHODS:In this cross-sectional study, we included 484 pr...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Cerni Obrdalj E,Rumboldt M

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For more than a century, since the introduction of modern hernia repair by Basinni, technical aspects of hernia surgery have been surrounded by controversies. The purpose of this article is to examine these controversies with special attention to (a) mechanical versus degenerative nature of hernias, (b) traditional ti...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Amid PK

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article brings an overview of the influence of molecular medicine on pathophysiology, medical practice, and medical education. Various aspects of the growing impact of molecular medicine on clinical practice are discussed: diagnostic and predictive testing, gene and targeted therapy, and pharmacogenomics. Insuffi...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Gamulin S

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To evaluate the effectiveness of suture anchors in the reconstruction of chronic collateral ligaments of fingers. METHODS:We treated 8 patients, 6 with chronic instability of the collateral ligament of the thumb and 2 with the instability of the fifth finger, using the Statak suture anchor. A stable joint was achi...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Tuncay I,Ege A

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To assess treatment outcomes of psychotherapy for war veterans suffering from posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and to investigate self-perceived social acknowledgment. METHODS:In this prospective cohort study, a set of psychological instruments was used to assess the level of posttraumatic stress symptoms (Cli...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Ljubotina D,Pantić Z,Francisković T,Mladić M,Priebe S

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To assess the usefulness of a DNA-based method for identifying mushroom species for application in forensic laboratory practice. METHODS:Two hundred twenty-one samples of clinical forensic material (dried mushrooms, food remains, stomach contents, feces, etc) were analyzed. ITS2 region of nuclear ribosomal DNA (nr...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Kowalczyk M,Sekuła A,Mleczko P,Olszowy Z,Kujawa A,Zubek S,Kupiec T

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The generally accepted structure of a scientific paper is four sections, an introduction, a methods section, the results, and a discussion. This so-called IMRaD format is, with a few small variations, found in most research articles in biomedical journals. However, as a guide for someone writing up research data for t...

journal_title：Croatian medical journal

authors： Sharp D

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00