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Tailoring decision-making at the end-of-life: blood transfusions, an ethical ma...
Ilharco, Marta; Moraes, Maria; Gomes, Maria João; Moreira, PatríciaIntroduction: Palliative Care aims to improve the quality of life for patients with serious illnesses, seeking relief from physical, psychosocial, and spiritual suffering. The administration of blood transfusions in terminal patients is a complex ethical issue involving bioethical principles such as autonomy, beneficence, non-maleficence, and justice, and others, such as the principle of vulnerability, necessit...
Nosocomial Infections. COVID-19: A Friend or Foe?
Bonito Moreira, Laura; Martins-dos-Santos, Gonçalo; Ilharco, Marta; Mello Vieira, Marta; Midões, Carolina; Rocha, Inês; Soares, LeonorIntroduction: Nosocomial Infections constitute a public health problem and bring excess avoidable costs associated with hospital admissions. Over the COVID-19 pandemics there was a shift in policies focusing on infection prevention and control programs. Methods: We postulate that such shift may have an indirect effect in the occurrence of nosocomial infections. We performed a retrospective study aiming to compa...