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Attitudes, Knowledge and Views of Portuguese Physicians regarding Complementary...
Nogueira, Carlos; Brito de Sá, Armando; Martins, Ana PaulaIntroduction: The widespread use of complementary and alternative medicine and the fact that these are not innocuous makes it important for physicians to be familiar with it in order to properly advise their patients. The aim of this study was to identify attitudes, knowledge and views of Portuguese physicians about complementary and alternative medicine.Material and Methods: An observational, analytical, cross...
A árvore da WONCA: tradução e adaptação cultural para português
Santos, Paulo; Brito de Sá, Armando; Santiago, Luiz; Hespanhol, AlbertoIntrodução: A árvore da WONCA é uma representação visual dos conceitos e definições básicas da especialidade de medicina geral e familiar, publicada pelo Collège de Médecine de Premier Recours suíço em 2004 e revista em 2011. Até ao presente momento não havia uma tradução portuguesa da versão de 2011 deste instrumento. O objetivo deste trabalho foi traduzir com uma adaptação cultural e validar a versão portugue...
De Alma-Ata a Astana: o futuro, hoje
Brito de Sá, ArmandoDe Alma-Ata a Astana: o futuro, hoje
Diabetes Mellitus in Portugal: Relevance of Suitable Pharmacological Therapy
Brito de Sá, Armando; Oliveira, Catarina; Carvalho, Davide; Raposo, João; Polónia, Jorge; Aranda da Silva, José; Medina, José LuísDiabetes is a major public health problem in Portugal, with a estimated prevalence of 13,1% in the population aged between 20 and 79 years old, which corresponds to more than 1 million individuals who suffer from this disease. Diabetes has an overwhelmingly high social, economic and human cost. Indeed, costs associated with diabetes represent in Portugal approximately 10% of the total expenditure in Health and ...
Physician-assisted death: the debate
Brito de Sá, ArmandoMorte medicamente ajudada: o debate
Patients’ Access to their Medical Records
Laranjo, Liliana; Neves, Ana Luisa; Villanueva, Tiago; Cruz, Jorge; Brito de Sá, Armando; Sakellarides, ConstantitnoUntil recently, the medical record was seen exclusively as being the property of health institutions and doctors. Its great technical and scientific components, as well as the personal characteristics attributed by each doctor, have been the reasons appointed for that control. However, nowadays throughout the world that paradigm has been changing. In Portugal, since 2007 patients are allowed full and direct acc...
Influência dos factores financeiros no cumprimento da medicação
Chin, Ângela; Alves, Mariana; Martins, Nuno; Pedro, Cátia; Ferreira, Ana; Barbeiro, Carolina; Mota, Mafalda; Brito de Sá, ArmandoBackground: Financial factors are known to influence adherence to medication. Objectives: To study adherence to medication, the different forms of cost-related non-adherence and the degree of reporting that information to the doctor, as well as to study measures to facilitate adherence. Type of study: Cross-sectional study Setting: Loures Family Health Unit Population: Patients over 17 years of age in April 201...
Correlating Chlamydia trachomatis infectious load with urogenital ecological su...
Gomes, João P.; Borrego, Maria J.; Atik, Berna; Santo, Irene; Azevedo, Jacinta; Brito de Sá, Armando; Nogueira, Paulo; Dean, DeborahThe association of infectious burden of Chlamydia trachomatis with patient characteristics and clinical disease may have implications for understanding disease pathogenesis.We examined chlamydial load from 171 urine samples where load was based on copy number of organisms per copy number of eukaryotic cells derived by real-time quantitative PCR. High- (E, F, G) and low-prevalence (Ia, H, J, Ja) genotypes in the...