ABSTRACT The Health Sciences Descriptors (DeCS) vocabulary establishes a unique and common language that allows the organization and facilitates the search and retrieval of technical and scientific literature on health available in the information sources of the Virtual Health Library. The DeCS, created ...
Actualmente, el mundo se enfrenta a la pandemia generada por el SARS-CoV-2, infección para la cual no hay medidas farmacológicas de prevención ni tratamiento. Hasta el momento, ha dejado más de 4'880.000 casos confirmados y 322.000 muertes. Se han propuesto diferentes estrategias para el control de l...
Introducción: La Enfermedad de Gaucher (EG) es un trastorno genético autosómico recesivo, causado por la deficiencia de la enzima B-Glucocerebrosidasa acida (GBA). En Colombia se ha estimado una prevalencia de 1:266.441 habitantes. Sin embargo, el país no cuenta con datos exactos sobre la incidencia,...
Pharmaceutical care (PC) is in the implementation process in Brazil and Latin America. Synthesis of evidence has been requested for monitoring and evaluating the process regarding the treatment effect. The objective is to build and disseminate a systematic review protocol to make a standard for updating ...
Introducción Desde el inicio de la aplicación del cribado para cáncer de próstata basado en el antígeno prostático específico (PSA) hace aproximadamente dos décadas, la controversia sobre los beneficios y desventajas de su uso rutinario ha sido constante. La literatura médica cuenta con múlti...
O Transtorno do Estresse Pós-Traumático (TEPT) é um agravo mental que pode ocorrer em resposta a eventos traumáticos na vida do indivíduo. Alguns estudos apontam que há relação do transtorno do estresse pós-traumático após o parto, quando este é considerado como parto de risco. O objetivo des...
Developing skills to search the medical literature has potential benefits on patient care and allow physicians to better orient their efforts when answering daily clinical questions. The objective of this paper is to share useful tools for optimizing medical literature retrieval in MEDLINE using PubMed i...
Abstract Introduction: The phantom limb pain has been described as a condition in which patients experience a feeling of itching, spasm or pain in a limb or body part that has been previously amputated. Such pain can be induced by a conflict between the representation of the visual and proprioceptive fe...