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The impact of intensive care admission criteria on elderly mortality
Cintra,Marco Túlio Gualberto; Belém,Dinah; Moraes,Edgar Nunes; Botoni,Fernando Antônio; Bicalho,Maria Aparecida CamargosSUMMARY OBJECTIVE To review systematically the influence of admission criteria on the mortality of elderly patients under intensive therapy. METHODS We performed a search on the PUBMED and BIREME databases by using the MeSH and DeCS terms “intensive care units”, “patient admission”, and “aged” in Portuguese, English, and Spanish. Only prospective and retrospective cohort studies were included. We analyzed the s...
Evaluation of the brazilian public Alzheimer's disease treatment program in 2008
Moraes,Edgar Nunes; Cintra,Marco Túlio Gualberto; Belém,Dinah; Moraes,Flávia Lanna<p><b>INTRODUCTION:</b> The Healthcare Program for Alzheimer's Disease Carriers established in 2002 that anticholinesterasic drugs should be provided on a free basis in Brazil.<br> <b>OBJECTIVES:</b> To evaluate the estimates for the program coverage based on data regarding the delivery of anticholinesterasics in several regions and states of Brazil.<br> <b>METHODOLOGY:</b> It was estimated the number of elderl...