Resistance to the usual Tuberculosis (TB) treatment schedule has been a worrying phenomenon especially in the developing countries, worsened by poverty, TB/HIV co-infection and degeneration of the health services. The research aimed to describe the clinical-epidemiologic characteristics of patients assisted in a reference hospital in João Pessoa-PB who have developed resistance to tuberculostatics. Documentary ...
It is a descriptive-documentary research, with quantitative approach that aimed to characterize the profile of the people who tried the suicide, attended in the Hospital of Emergency and Trauma in João Pessoa / PB. The sample was constituted of 87 newsletters of entrance and records of patients with diagnoses of attempt of suicide, between January and December 2005. A form with information about age, sex and me...