Background Health surveys in Chile show a worrisome high prevalence of unhealthy lifestyles among adults. Aim To characterize the nutritional status, food intake and sleep patterns in university students of both genders. Material and Methods Cross sectional study in seven Chilean universities. Students...
Background Cirrhosis is a serious public health problem worldwide. There are geographical, socioeconomic and demographic differences in mortality due to the disease. Aim To establish an association between mortality from cirrhosis and other chronic liver diseases and socioeconomic and demographic indica...
Background A number of attributes of recommendations included in clinical guidelines influence their implementation in clinical practice. Aim To assess the association between those attributes and the uptake of recommendations included in four Clinical Guidelines of the Chilean Ministry of Health. Mate...
Medical graduates face different postgraduate training options, but their priority is to obtain a primary medical specialty, defined as a specialty that does not derive from other. There are different specialty training programs in Chile, which can be dependent or independent of the Ministry of Health. T...
Considering that a high proportion of the Chilean general population smokes, the Chilean Society of Respiratory Diseases in collaboration with the Chilean Societies of Cardiology and, Endocrinology and Diabetes, formed an interdisciplinary group, who issued a set of recommendations for the treatment of t...
El propósito de este estudio fue realizar una adaptación inicial a la población chilena del Swallowing Quality of Life Questionnaire (SWAL-QOL), instrumento diseñado para conocer la autopercepción de la calidad de vida que informan las personas con disfagia orofaríngea.La adapta...
PROPÓSITO: Comparar la eficacia y complicaciones de la vía retropúbica (TVT o RP) y la vía transobturadora (TVT-O) en el tratamiento quirúrgico de la incontinencia de orina de esfuerzo (IOE). MÉTODOS: Estudio retrospectivo de pacientes con diagnóstico de IOE operadas entre Julio 2004 y Julio 2014...
OBJETIVO: Identificar las necesidades de las madres adolescentes chilenas y las características de un servicio para apoyarlas. MÉTODOS: Se condujo un estudio cualitativo, utilizando grupos focales y entrevistas con madres adolescentes del área sur oriente de Santiago de Chile. Se realizó un análisi...