Abstract The conceptual model of the life course considers that health-disease is a dynamic process that is also affected by previous and current lifelong experiences. The aim of the study was to investigate the incidence of caries and its determinants in young people in Sobral-Ceará, Brazil. This was a...
La trombocitopenia se encuentra presente entre un 6 al 10% de los todos los embarazos. La trombocitopenia gestacional (TG) es definida como una trombocitopenia moderada que ocurre en el tercer trimestre del embarazo y presenta remisión espontanea después del parto no estando rel...
Objectives: to estimate the incidence of dry eye, to identify risk factors and to establish a risk prediction model for its development in adult patients admitted to the intensive care unit of a public hospital. Method: concurrent cohort, conducted between March and June, 2014, with 230 patients admitte...
ABSTRACT Objective: to investigate the incidence of phlebitis and its association with risk factors when using peripheral IV catheters (PIC) and following their removal - (post-infusion phlebitis) in hospitalized adults. Method: a cohort study of 171 patients using PIC, totaling 361 punctures. Sociod...
ABSTRACT Objective: to compare the results of urinary tract infection incidence, by means of the rate of indwelling urethral catheter use, and to identify microorganisms in urine cultures and surveillance cultures before and after the implementation of a clinical protocol for intensive care unit patien...
Gentile, Ángela;
Bakir, Julia;
Bialorus, Laura;
Caruso, Laura;
Mirra, Diego;
Santander, Celina;
Terluk, Mabel;
Zurdo, Pablo;
Gentile, Fernando;
Fermndez, María I.
Introducción. En enero de 2012, en Argentina, fue introducida la vacuna neumocócica conjugada 13-valente (13-Valent Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine; PCV13, por sus siglas en inglés) en el Calendario Nacional, en menores de 2 anos. La cobertura en el partido de Pilar en 2012 fue > 90% para las primeras ...
Objective: to determine the incidence of falls in elderly residents of long-stay institutions of the Federal District, to identify the aspects involved in the falls, in terms of risk factors, from the application of scales and the Taxonomy II of NANDA-I, and to define the level of accuracy with its sensi...
Abstract INTRODUCTION: Hepatitis C is a public health problem of global dimensions, affecting approximately 200 million people worldwide. The main objective of this study was to estimate the incidence rate of hepatitis C in Brazil during the period between 2001 and 2012. METHODS: An epidemiological, temp...
RESUMO Objetivo: Avaliar a existência de interações medicamentosas potenciais na unidade de terapia intensiva de um hospital, com foco nos antimicrobianos. Métodos: Estudo transversal, que analisou prescrições eletrônicas de pacientes da unidade de terapia intensiva de um hospital de ensino, avali...
