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Brief fatigue inventory as a fatigue identification scale in lung cancer patien...
Picado, Mariana; Gaspar, Carina; Almodovar, Maria TeresaIntroduction: Lung cancer (LC) is one of the most frequent oncological diseases in the world, and the use of immunotherapy is a substantial progress regarding new therapeutic options. Fatigue is the most frequently reported adverse effect in patients starting immunotherapy treatment, but it remains underdiagnosed. The purpose of this study was to identify whether the assessment of fatigue, recorded by the clini...
An isothermal lab-on-phone test for easy molecular diagnosis of SARS-CoV-2 near...
Doria, Gonçalo; Clemente, Carla; Coelho, Eduardo; Colaço, João; Crespo, Rui; Semikhodskii, Andrei; Mansinho, Helder; Dinis, MagnoObjectives: The performance of a new point-of-care CE-IVD-marked isothermal lab-on-phone COVID-19 assay was assessed in comparison to a gold standard real-time reverse transcriptase–PCR method. Methods: The study was conducted following a nonprobability sampling of ≥16-year-old volunteers from three different laboratories, using direct mouthwash (N = 24) or nasopharyngeal (N = 191) clinical samples. Results: Th...