Objective: To evaluate the safety culture of patients from the perspective of physicians who work in a maternity hospital. Method: This is a cross-sectional and quantitative study, with a descriptive approach, carried out between March and May 2016, with 124 physicians working in a public maternity hospital in the city of Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil. The information was obtained through the Hospital on Patient Saf...
Technological innovation and the development of new products is what currently boost the competitiveness between enterprises and moves the economy. The technical-scientific advances in Dentistry grow each day and there are great investments by research centers and universities in new materials, especially in dental implantology. The objective was to evaluate the patents deposited and granted in implantology at ...
Introdução: A não adesão ao tratamento é um fenômeno multifatorial que se faz pre-sente nos tratamentos de doenças crônicas, estimando-se que metade dos pacientes sob tratamento não são aderentes. Como consequência, ocorre falha terapêutica, a-gravo de saúde, queda na qualidade de vida e elevação dos gastos em saúde. O acompanhamento farmacoterapêutico (AFT) viabiliza a detecção e prevenção/resolução de problem...
Introduction: Dental caries is the most prevalent disease in humans and its incidence is particularly high during childhood. The use of medicinal plants is a common practice in Brazil. Objective: To evaluate the optimal antimicrobial concentration of Copaifera langsdorffii (copaiba) oil-resin, in the form of dental varnish, against Streptococcus mutans (S. mutans) in children. Methods: Twenty-four children, car...
O presente trabalho tem como objetivo descrever a prevalência e fatores associados a eventos adversos a medicamentos (EAM) referidos por usuários de medicamentos no Brasil. Trata-se de um estudo transversal de base populacional, realizado no período de setembro de 2013 a fevereiro de 2014, com dados coletados na Pesquisa Nacional sobre Acesso, Utilização e Promoção do Uso Racional de Medicamentos (PNAUM). Foram...
An exploratory study was conducted to present the approach of Brazilian hospital pharmacists to registering, documenting, archiving and disseminating clinical practice. The data were collected using an electronic questionnaire (n=348). In fact, 97.41% of pharmacists record their clinical practice, out of which 64.01% (n=217) do in electronic form, mainly in private hospitals (p<0.000), in the central, southe...
Objective The aim of this study was to investigate pharmacological treatment adherence of patients with juvenile idiopathic arthritis, attended in an outpatient pharmacy at a tertiary hospital in northeastern Brazil. Methods The analysis of adherence was performed along with caregivers, through a structured questionnaire based on Morisky, Green and Levine, which enabled the categorization of adherence in “highe...
Objectives: To monitor patients being treated with tyrosine kinase inhibitors, describing the problems related to drug during the follow-up. Methods: this work is a descriptive and prospective study, conducted during the pharmaceutical care to patients of chronic myeloid leukemia clinic of the Hospital Universitário Walter Cantídio in the Universidade Federal do Ceará, from September 2012 to August 2013. The ph...
To verify the health status in the elderly who have suffered accidents and treated at a reference hosp ital for emergency care of Ceará, Brazil. This is a cross-se ctional, descriptive study, with quantitative appro ach, developed in an emergency hospital in the city of Fortaleza. For the sample, 182 elderly people were selected. T he data were collected using the BOAS Questionnaire as a tool, e xported to the ...
Introduction : Benznidazole (BNZ) is a drug available for the etiological treatment of Chagas disease. However, this drug is toxic and has a limited effectiveness on the chronic phase of this disease, often leading to poor treatment adherence. Methods: This is a descriptive and exploratory study conducted at the Pharmaceutical Care Service for Chagas disease patients of the Federal University of Ceará. Drug-rel...