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Satisfação com o Internato Médico em Portugal
Vieira, M; Godinho, P; Gaibino, N; Dias, R; Sousa, A; Madanelo, I; Ribeiro-Mourão, F; Brandão, M; Duarte, S; Meirinhos, T; Catarino, AINTRODUCTION: In the last years, the global context of medical education and Medical Residency programs in Portugal suffered substantial changes. The primary objective of this study was to evaluate and characterize medical residents ́ satisfaction with medical residency programs in Portugal and to identify features that could be improved. MATERIAL AND METHODS: We utilized as model the survey Postgraduate Hospit...
Recommendations for Vaccination in Adult Patients with Systemic Inflammatory Rh...
Cordeiro, I; Duarte, AC; Ferreira, J; Gonçalves, MJ; Meirinhos, T; Rocha, T; Romão, V; Sousa, S; Guedes, M; Conde, M; Abreu, C; Aleixo, MJ; Santos, MJSerious infections are a major cause of morbidity and mortality in systemic inflammatory rheumatic disease (SIRD) patients. Although vaccination may prevent numerous infections, vaccination uptake rates are low in this group of patients. OBJECTIVES: To develop evidence-based recommendations for vaccination in SIRD patients. METHODS: We searched MEDLINE (until 31 October 2014) and EMBASE (until 14 December 2014)...
The Portuguese Society of Rheumatology position paper on the use of biosimilars
Fonseca, JE; Gonçalves, J; Araújo, F; Cordeiro, I; Teixeira, F; Canhão, H; Pereira da Silva, JA; Garcês, S; Miranda, LC; Ramiro, Sofia; Roxo, AnaBiotechnological drugs have become a fundamental resource for the treatment of rheumatic patients. Patent expiry of some of these drugs created the opportunity for biopharmaceutical manufacturers to develop biosimilar drugs intended to be as efficacious as the originator product but with a lower cost to healthcare systems. Due to the complex manufacturing process and highly intricate structure of biologicals, a...