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Monthly analysis of infant mortality rate in Portugal during the COVID-19 pande...
Nogueira, Paulo Jorge; Camarinha, Catarina; Feteira-Santos, Rodrigo; Costa, Andreia Silva; De-Araújo-Nobre, Miguel; Bacelar-Nicolau, LeonorIntroduction: The COVID-19 pandemic significantly impacted global public health. Infant mortality rate (IMR), a vital statistic and key indicator of a population’s overall health, is essential for developing effective health prevention programs. Existing evidence primarily indicates a decrease in IMR during the COVID-19 pandemic. We conducted a national-level analysis to calculate IMR and describe its course ov...
Monthly Analysis of Infant Mortality Rate in Portugal during the COVID-19 Pande...
Nogueira, Paulo Jorge; Camarinha, Catarina; Feteira-Santos, Rodrigo; Silva Costa, Andreia; de-Araújo-Nobre, Miguel; Bacelar-Nicolau, LeonorIntroduction: The COVID-19 pandemic significantly impacted global public health. Infant mortality rate (IMR), a vital statistic and key indicator of a population’s overall health, is essential for developing effective health prevention programs. Existing evidence primarily indicates a decrease in IMR during the COVID-19 pandemic. We conducted a national-level analysis to calculate IMR and describe its course ov...
Monthly analysis of infant mortality rate in Portugal during the COVID-19 pande...
Nogueira, Paulo Jorge; Camarinha, Catarina; Feteira-Santos, Rodrigo; Costa, Andreia; Nobre, Miguel de Araújo; Bacelar-Nicolau, Leonor; Furtado, CristinaIntroduction: The COVID-19 pandemic significantly impacted global public health. Infant mortality rate (IMR), a vital statistic and key indicator of a population's overall health, is essential for developing effective health prevention programs. Existing evidence primarily indicates a decrease in IMR during the COVID-19 pandemic. We conducted a national-level analysis to calculate IMR and describe its course ov...
Effectiveness of Neuropsychological Rehabilitation in the Recovery of Executive...
Ferreira, Sónia; Virgolino, Ana; Ribeiro, Cristina; Pombo, Samuel; Bacelar-Nicolau, LeonorIntroduction: Changes in executive functions associated with alcohol consumption are frequently found in alcohol use disorder. Neuropsychological rehabilitation can play an essential role as an effective treatment in the recovery from these deficits, leading to the maintenance of abstinence. However, there are still some uncertainties regarding its impact on the recovery of deficits in executive functions. Our ...
Effectiveness of neuropsychological rehabilitation in the recovery of executive...
Ferreira, Sónia; Virgolino, Ana; Ribeiro, Cristina; Pombo, Samuel; Bacelar-Nicolau, LeonorIntroduction: Changes in executive functions associated with alcohol consumption are frequently found in alcohol use disorder. Neuropsychological rehabilitation can play an essential role as an effective treatment in the recovery from these deficits, leading to the maintenance of abstinence. However, there are still some uncertainties regarding its impact on the recovery of deficits in executive functions. Our ...
COVID-19 in Portugal: a retrospective review of paediatric cases, hospital and ...
Elias, Cecilia; Feteira-Santos, Rodrigo; Camarinha, Catarina; Nobre, Miguel de Araújo; Costa, Andreia Silva; Bacelar-Nicolau, Leonor; Furtado, CristinaBackground COVID-19 is considered by WHO a pandemic with public health emergency repercussions. Children often develop a mild disease with good prognosis and the recognition of children at risk is essential to successfully manage paediatric COVID-19. Quality epidemiological surveillance data are required to characterise and assess the pandemic. Methods Data on all reported paediatric COVID-19 cases, in Portugal...
Multimorbidity profile of COVID-19 deaths in Portugal during 2020
Nogueira, Paulo Jorge; Nobre, Miguel de Araújo; Elias, Cecília; Feteira-Santos, Rodrigo; Martinho, António C. V.; Camarinha, CatarinaBackground: COVID-19 is caused by SARS-CoV-2 infection and has reached pandemic proportions. Since then, several clinical characteristics have been associated with poor outcomes. This study aimed to describe the morbidity profile of COVID-19 deaths in Portugal. Methods: A study was performed including deaths certificated in Portugal with “COVID-19” (ICD-10: U07.1 or U07.2) coded as the underlying cause of death...
Multimorbidity profile of COVID-19 deaths in Portugal during 2020
Nogueira, Paulo Jorge; Nobre, Miguel de Araújo; Elias, Cecília; Feteira-Santos, Rodrigo; Martinho, António C.-V.; Camarinha, CatarinaBackground: COVID-19 is caused by SARS-CoV-2 infection and has reached pandemic proportions. Since then, several clinical characteristics have been associated with poor outcomes. This study aimed to describe the morbidity profile of COVID-19 deaths in Portugal. Methods: A study was performed including deaths certificated in Portugal with "COVID-19" (ICD-10: U07.1 or U07.2) coded as the underlying cause of death...
Improving morbidity information in Portugal: evidence from data linkage of COVI...
Feteira-Santos, Rodrigo; Camarinha, Catarina; Nobre, Miguel de Araújo; Elias, Cecília; Bacelar-Nicolau, Leonor; Costa, Andreia; Furtado, CristinaBackground: COVID-19 rapidly spread around the world, putting health systems under unprecedented pressure and continuous adaptations. Well-established health information systems (HIS) are crucial in providing data to allow evidence-based policymaking and public health interventions in the pandemic response. This study aimed to compare morbidity information between two databases for COVID-19 management in Portug...
The role of health preconditions on COVID-19 deaths in Portugal : evidence from...
Nogueira, Paulo Jorge; Nobre, Miguel de Araújo; Costa, Andreia; Ribeiro, Ruy M.; Furtado, Cristina; Bacelar-Nicolau, Leonor; Camarinha, CatarinaBackground: It is essential to study the effect of potential co-factors on the risk of death in patients infected by COVID-19. The identification of risk factors is important to allow more efficient public health and health services strategic interventions with a significant impact on deaths by COVID-19. This study aimed to identify factors associated with COVID-19 deaths in Portugal. Methods: A national datase...