Introduction. Lower-leg fractures represent the most often fractures of long bones. The most frequent fractures are those in middle-aged patients when their work and life activities are very intensive. The aim of the study was to determine the result of the treatment of closed lower-leg fractures with external fixation.Methods. These patients in wh...

By MLADENKO LAZIĆ, SAŠA VIDIĆ

Introduction. Hospital-acquired infections (HAIs) are a global public health problem. Surveillance has been widely accepted as the primary tool in the control of HAI. It assumes systematic collection, analysis and interpretation of HAI data, as well as providing feedback information for personnel in health caresettings. Prevalence study is a fast, ...

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By JELENA MATOVIĆ, VELIMIRKA PEJOVIĆ

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By LJILJANA LUKIĆ, ZORAN VASILIĆ, DANIJELA TRIFUNOVIĆ, MILAN GAJIĆ

Introduction. Obesity is one of the most important risk factors for osteoarthritis (OA) of the knee. However, notwithstanding numerous studies on this topic, the link between obesity and OA of the hip and between OA and gender is still not clear enough. The aim of the study was to investigate the association between obesity, gender and degenerative...

By ŽANI BANJANIN, JADRANKA PEŠEVIĆ PAJČIN, RADMILA UBOVIĆ

Introduction. Nursing is by nature a profession that involves a high level of stress. Stress or stressful reaction is response to stressful situations. Health care workers are exposed to combustion and it is professional nature of their work, especially in clinical hospital practice. The aim of this study was to identify and analyze the stress fact...

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By DRAGIŠA RAŠIĆ

Sve je veći broj istraživanja koja otkrivaju da mnogi lekovi ispoljavaju neželjene efekte na mineralnu gustinu i strukturu koštanog tkiva. Brojne studije su pokazale da neki lekovi mogu biti „štetni za kost” kao što su: glukokortikoidi, hormoni štitaste žlezde, antiepileptici, antidepresivi, aromatični inhibi...

By VOJKAN NESTOROVIĆ, ЈULIJANA RAŠIĆ, SNEŽANA JANIĆIJEVIĆ HUDOMAL

Background. Crimean Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) is an acute, viral, natural, focal zoonosis, which is under natural conditions transferred to man by the bite of certain species of ticks. There is also inter-human transmission of infection. A clinical picture is characterized by temperature and severehemorrhages of different localization and diff...

By RADOSLAV KATANIĆ, NATAŠA KATANIĆ, DIJANA MIRIĆ, BOJANA KISIĆ, DRAGICA ODALOVIĆ, ANDRIJANA ODALOVIĆ

Peer review is the accepted method for ensuring that the science reported in the biomedical literature is of the highest quality. Reviewers, who are always recruited among the most prominent scientists in the field, are the heart of the peer-review system, and no editor can get along without them. Many authors, especially the younger ones, are unaw...

By LJILJANA VUČKOVIĆ-DEKIĆ

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