Arch Iran Med
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Violence against women and threat of violence are some of the main barriers to women's empowerment and equal participation in the society. However, they often go unnoticed and undocumented and therefore unresolved. For women, one of every five years of healthy life lost because of injury, disease, or premature death is attributable to violence. The aim of this study was to identify the prevalence of domestic violence in women attending three obstetric and gynecologic clinics in Tehran, and to determine the association between domestic violence and demographic factors. ⋯ With the high prevalence of domestic violence, health workers should not ignore the seriousness of domestic violence. Health and social personnel should be appropriately trained before "asking all cases" becomes a policy within health and social services.
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To evaluate the processes of care and outcomes of injured patients, many different models have been devised and "Trauma and Injury Severity Score" and "A Severity Characterization of Trauma" score have been among the most widely used models. We conducted this study to determine the effectiveness of these systems of evaluation to our setting in Iran, which is substantially different from the North American trauma centers, where these models were developed. Using our data registry on trauma patients, we derived new coefficients for Trauma and Injury Severity Score and A Severity Characterization of Trauma scoring systems to calculate the probability of survival of patients. ⋯ Discrimination in blunt injuries was a little lower, yet satisfactory. In pediatric patients the discrimination was also good and A Severity Characterization of Trauma had a better performance. Both models can be used reliably to predict outcome of trauma patients in our setting.