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ABSTRACT Diabetes mellitus is a chronic metabolic syndrome, which has serious implications at ones individual, family and socioeconomic status. Diabetes mellitus can take epidemic proportions and can cause significant changes in one’s life, as it is a disease associated... Read More

ABSTRACT Introduction: During the year 2007, 15092 road accidents occurred in Greece, leading to 1578 deaths and 18886 trauma patients. This means that every 24 hours, there were 6 dead and 67 trauma patients in road accidents. Road accidents affect areas of the trauma patient’s... Read More

ABSTRACT Aim: The assessment of pain intensity variation in hospitalized cancer patients during their medical care. Material and methods: A numerical pain scale (0 to 10) was administered to 100 randomly selected patients to score their pain intensity, during their admission and... Read More

ABSTRACT Introduction: Euthanasia refers to the practice of intentionally ending a life in order to relieve pain and suffering. Aim of this review is to present different views and arguments about euthanasia and to discuss the legal regulations and the way that modern societies... Read More

ABSTRACT Introduction: Patient satisfaction is a quality indicator for the health services provided by a hospital, and also the principal method for the evaluation and feedback of the system used for measuring quality of service. The οbjective of this study was to estimate the... Read More

ABSTRACT Objectives: To determine cost-effectiveness of CHOP (cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, vincristine, and prednisone) compared with R-CHOP (CHOP plus Rituximab) in adult patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, in a Greek Academic Hospital. Patients and methods: The... Read More