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Integrated oncology and palliative care: five years experience at the National Cancer Institute of Mexico

Salud pública Méx; 58 (2), 2016
Abstract Under the national plan for addressing cancer, prevention and detection play important roles. However, the cost of treatments and late diagnosis represent a significant burden on health services. At the National Cancer Institute, more than half of patients present with tumors in advanced stages,...

Prostate cancer mortality according to marginalization status in Mexican states from 1980 to 2013

Salud pública Méx; 58 (2), 2016
Abstract Objective: To assess prostate cancer (PC) mortality in Mexico from 1980 to 2013, according to the state marginalization level. Materials and methods: Using age-adjusted rates in men ≥ 40 years old, we estimated trends and age-cohort-period effects of PC mortality from 1980-2013 according...

Effect of care-delivery delay on the survival of Mexican women with breast cancer

Salud pública Méx; 58 (2), 2016
Abstract Objective: To estimate the effect of care-delivery delays on survival among women with breast cancer. Materials and methods: A retrospective analysis of 854 women attending 11 hospitals from 2007-2009 was carried out. Kaplan-Meier estimators and a Cox proportional-risk model were employed. Re...

Association between duration of untreated bipolar disorder and clinical outcome: data from a Brazilian sample

Objective: Bipolar disorder (BD) is often left untreated for long periods, and this delay in treatment correlates with unfavorable prognosis. The present study sought to assess the magnitude of duration of untreated bipolar disorder (DUB) in Brazil. We hypothesized that DUB would be longer in Brazil than...

Hernia diafragmática congénita bilateral de diagnóstico tardío: reporte de un caso

Arch. argent. pediatr; 114 (1), 2016
La hernia diafragmática congénita (HDC) es una malformación rara, habitualmente unilateral y más frecuente del lado izquierdo. La HDC bilateral representa el 1% de todas las HDC. La mortalidad es mayor en las HDC derechas y en las bilaterales. Reportamos el caso de un paciente con HDC bilateral, cuya...

Late presentation to HIV/AIDS care in Brazil among men who self-identify as heterosexual

ABSTRACT OBJECTIVE To analyze the factors associated with late presentation to HIV/AIDS services among heterosexual men. METHODS Men infected by HIV who self-identified as heterosexual (n = 543) were included in the study. Descriptive, biivariate and logistic regression analyses were performed to eva...

Avaliação do atendimento laboratorial a sintomáticos respiratórios para tuberculose que procuraram serviços de saúde em Canoas, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil, 2012

Epidemiol. serv. saúde; 24 (4), 2015
OBJETIVO: descrever o tempo decorrido entre a identificação do sintomático respiratório para tuberculose e a liberação do resultado laboratorial, bem como entre a obtenção do resultado e o início do tratamento. MÉTODOS: estudo descritivo, com dados de casos suspeitos de tuberculose atendidos e...

Tourette's syndrome in famous musicians

Arq. neuropsiquiatr; 73 (12), 2015
Tourette's syndrome (TS) is defined as a disorder characterized by multiple motor tics and at least one vocal tic that have lasted for not less than one year. It is a relatively complex neurobehavioral disorder, in which patients may present with coexistent attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, obses...

"Era una bomba de tiempo": el derrotero de la morbilidad materna severa en el Área Metropolitana de Buenos Aires

Salud colect; 11 (4), 2015
Con el propósito de conocer las vivencias de mujeres que atravesaron eventos de morbilidad materna severa, desde su propia perspectiva, entre febrero y mayo de 2011, se realizaron 16 entrevistas semiestructuradas a mujeres que padecieron morbilidad materna severa, atendidas en hospitales públicos del �...

Mortalidade por tuberculose no interior de São Paulo – Brasil (2006-2008)

Ciênc. cuid. saúde; 14 (3), 2015
Estudo epidemiológico, descritivo, com objetivo de caracterizar o perfil epidemiológico dos óbitos por tuberculose no período de 2006 a 2008 do Departamento Regional de Saúde III do Estado de São Paulo –Brasil. A população foi constituída pelas notificações de casos d...