Identification of conditions which lead to unjustified requests for emergency treatment of hypertensive patients
Aim To determine most common factors making patients with high blood pressure seek professionally unacceptable treatment of hypertension at the Emergency Department. Methods The survey was conducted at the Emergency Department of the Primary Health Care in Gradačac on randomly selected 207 patients who requested medical help because of high blood p...
By Suad Sivić, Larisa Gavran, Salih Tandir, Elvir Peštalić
Public health significance of immunization and epidemic occurrence of measles
Aim To investigate epidemiological characteristics of the measles epidemic (risk factors and reasons for its emergence) in order to establish better control and prevention of future epidemics as well as to determine an influence of poor collective immunization of children against measles on appearance of epidemic disease. Methods An open retrospect...
By Lejla Čalkić, Muhamed Skomorac, Salih Tandir, Suad Sivić, Lejla Bajramović-Omeragić
Quality of care for patients with diabetes done by family medicine team during the period 2013-2016
Aim To assess whether the quality of diabetes care provided by a family medicine team changed over the course of four years and to identify potential gaps in our practice in order to improve it in the future. Methods An audit was carried out for randomly selected 120 medical records (MC) from the Diabetes Registry of patients with type 1 or 2 diabe...
By Larisa Gavran, Salih Tandir, Suad Sivić, Fatima Topčić