Um estudo experimental tem como objetivo principal conduzir um ou mais tratamentos ou intervenções de modo a modificar, de alguma forma, um processo de doença. Para as comparações, pelo menos dois grupos devem ser formados, diferenciando-se pelos tratamentos. Geralmente um grupo intervenção e outr...
Pathological vertebral fractures are caused by various entities. They cause significant pain and impaired quality of life of patients. The CT-guided kyphoplasty relieves or eliminates pain and stabilizes the fractured vertebral bodies. 49 patients were treated. The procedure is performed percutaneously b...
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a common demyelinating disease that involves the central nervous system causing focal lesions in the brain and spinal cord causing diverse neurological development deficits, many of them severe and irreversible, affecting and invaliding a large percentage of young productive-ag...
Introduction: For more than a decade the diffusion tensor imaging model has been widely used in order to resolve and represent the intracranial white-matter microanatomy. Howeverthere are numerous studies that have successfully demonstrated the limitations associated with DTI in trying to define crossing...
Embora haja um forte debate sobre a ética e os efeitos da publicidade veiculada na mídia televisiva, ainda se conhece pouco sobre esses fenômenos em relação ao público infantil. Esta pesquisa teve como objetivo investigar o uso de estratégias persuasivas voltadas para o consumo infantil na mídia,...
OBJECTIVE: To assess the clinical outcome of patients with personality disorder, receiving treatment with psychohistoriographic brief psychotherapy (PBP). METHOD: Patients seen in the author's private practice from 1974 - 2010 with a Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th edition, tex...
OBJECTIVE: To ascertain whether the public scholarship of the epidemiology of personality disorder (PD) in Jamaica prompted a health promotion outcome. METHODS: A January 2011 to December 2012 trawl of news media articles linking 'PD' to published public scholarship articles on the epidemiology of PD rec...
OBJECTIVE: Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection has become a chronic disorder for which adaptation of current healthcare practices is needed. In Curaçao, a new organization of chronic HIV care is being set up based on task shifting in which healthcare workers (HCWs) will deliver HIV care more pr...
Actitud del Personal de Salud,
Enfermedad Crónica,
Competencia Clínica/estadística & datos numéricos,
Atención a la Salud/métodos,
Manejo de la Enfermedad,
Infecciones por VIH/tratamiento farmacológico,
Personal de Salud/educación,
Personal de Salud/psicología,
Antillas Holandesas,
Calidad de la Atención de Salud,
Encuestas y Cuestionarios
OBJECTIVE: The twin epidemics of HIV and homelessness present several challenging aspects to the development of programmes for the provision of treatment and care. This paper describes the characteristics of this population being managed by a collaborative effort between the Centre for HIV/AIDS Research,...
Terapia Antirretroviral Altamente Activa/métodos,
Terapia Antirretroviral Altamente Activa/estadística & datos numéricos,
Conducta Cooperativa,
Infecciones por VIH/tratamiento farmacológico,
Infecciones por VIH/epidemiología,
Infecciones por VIH/transmisión,
Accesibilidad a los Servicios de Salud/estadística & datos numéricos,
Hepatitis C/epidemiología,
Personas con Mala Vivienda/estadística & datos numéricos,
Hospitales Universitarios,
Jamaica/epidemiología,
Cumplimiento de la Medicación/estadística & datos numéricos,
Estudios Retrospectivos,
Conducta Sexual/estadística & datos numéricos,
Trastornos Relacionados con Sustancias/epidemiología
