Aim To explore and elucidate women's knowledge of and willingness to take part in organ donation, and to explore if their opinions were changed by coming to Sweden. Methods The study was designed as a qualitative study using data from interviews with women from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, Croatia and Kosovo. The inclusion criteria were women...

By Ferid Krupić, Sahmir Šadić, Svemir Čustović, Mahir Jašarević, Mirsad Fazlić, Kristian Samuelsson

Arnebia, a sub cosmopolitan and important genus of the Boraginaceae family, comprises 25 species distributed among the world. Based on the studies of Persian medicine texts, there are some promising bioactivities for this genus that is unknown in modern medicine and some of them are still the basis of new remedies. This article presents Arnebia acc...

By Amirsaeed Hosseini, Fatemeh Mirzaee, Ali Davoodi, Hossein Bakhshi Jouybar, Mohammad Azadbakht

Aim To analyse symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder and coping strategies of war veterans in Tuzla Canton twenty years after the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina (B&H). Methods The study analysed a group of 120 war veterans from the Tuzla Canton who had experience of the war in B&H. For assessment of posttraumatic stress disorder Harvard ...

By Zihnet Selimbašić, Maja Brkić, Nermina Kravić, Jasmin Hamidović, Mirna Selimbašić

Aim To investigate the association between the incidence of congenital nasolacrimal duct obstruction (CNDO) and delivery by caesarean section or spontaneous vaginal labour. Methods A total of 40 patients who were diagnosed as CNDO and treated with lacrimal probing between January 2011 and February 2013 were reviewed retrospectively. The patients we...

By Aydın Yildiz

Aim To examine the efficiency of paroxetine treatment of anxiety disorders in adult patients over the period of 12 months and the improvement of symptoms of anxiety disorder during this period, as well as to examine the tolerability of the administered treatment and patient compliance during the study. Methods This observational, multicenter, cohor...

By Alma Džubur Kulenović, Amra Memić Serdarević, Zehra Halilović, Haris Mašnić, Amra Bahto, Belma Kapo, Daniela Delić, Amila Hadžimuratović

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

Aim To analyse frequency of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) exacerbation in patients on therapy with inhaled corticosteroids (ICS) and relevant factors that influence the rate of COPD exacerbations in a subgroup of moderate illness, like FEV1, comorbidities and other concomitant therapy. Methods The study included patients with moderat...

By Maida Rakanović-Todić, Sanita Maleškić, Lejla Burnazović Ristić, Aida Kulo Ćesić, Jasna Kusturica, Besim Prnjavorac

Aim To investigate the prevalence of derepressed/partly derepressed/inducible and ESBL/AmpC-producing Enterobacter cloacae isolates and treatment options for infections associated with those isolates. Methods Antibiotic susceptibility was determined by disc diffusion and broth microdilution according to CLSI guidelines. Doubledisk synergy test (DDS...

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

Aim To explore the experience of registered nurses in assessing pain in hip fracture in patients with dementia in the postoperative setting. Methods The study questionnaire contained 23 items mainly addressing demographic and social data, information about communication and pain assessment, attention and awareness of the health-care professionals o...

By Ferid Krupić, Sahmir Sadić, Nail Seffo, Mirza Bišćevic, Mirsad Fazlić, Svemir Čustović, Kristian Samuelsson