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Uma análise de custo-efetividade de propofol versus midazolam para sedação de p...

RESUMO Objetivo: Construir um modelo de custo-efetividade para comparar o uso de propofol com o de midazolam em pacientes críticos adultos sob uso de ventilação mecânica. Métodos: Foi construído um modelo de árvore decisória para pacientes críticos submetidos à ventilação mecânica, o qual foi analisado sob a perspectiva do sistema privado de saúde no Brasil. O horizonte temporal foi o da internação na unidade d...

Willingness to pay for short- and long-acting contraceptives among female adole...

ABSTRACT Objective To evaluate willingness to pay for short- and long-acting reversible contraceptive methods among female Brazilian adolescents and their parents, as well as their perspective on using such methods. Methods This is a cross-sectional study of female adolescents aged 13 to 19 years and their parents. We surveyed to estimate their willingness to pay for contraceptive methods. The values are expres...

Who is going to turn on the ventilators?

ABSTRACT Objective To analyze the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil, a continental-sized country, considered as an emerging economy but with several regional nuances, focusing on the availability of human resources, especially for intensive care units. Methods The database of the National Registry of Health Facilities was accessed. Healthcare professionals in the care of COVID-19 were georeferenced. We correlated the...

Which children account for repeated admissions within 1 year in a Brazilian ped...

Abstract Objective: While studies have focused on early readmissions or readmissions during the same hospitalization in a pediatric intensive care unit, little is known about the children with recurrent admissions. We sought to assess the characteristics of patients readmitted within 1 year in a Brazilian pediatric intensive care unit. Methods: This was a retrospective study carried out in a tertiary pediatric ...

Costs of hospitalization in preterm infants: impact of antenatal steroid therapy

ABSTRACT OBJECTIVE: To estimate the costs of hospitalization in premature infants exposed or not to antenatal corticosteroids (ACS). METHOD: Retrospective cohort analysis of premature infants with gestational age of 26-32 weeks without congenital malformations, born between January of 2006 and December of 2009 in a tertiary, public university hospital. Maternal and neonatal demographic data, neonatal morbiditie...

Sponsored multicentric clinical research conducted in Brazil in the respiratory...

Summary Objective: To evaluate the sponsored centers for clinical trial in the respiratory care setting in Brazil: profile; logistics and structure. Methods: Principal investigators (29) and subinvestigators (30) of 39 research centers completed the questionnaires that addressed personal identification and training of researchers, the centers' facilities and advantages and/or disadvantages of performing sponsor...

Consenso brasileiro do tratamento da fibromialgia

Cost effectiveness of peginterferon alfa-2B combined with ribavirin for the tre...

The treatment of chronic hepatitis C (CHC) with peginterferon alpha-2b/ribavirin (PegIFN + Rib) produced larger sustained viral response (SVR) compared to the conventional (non-pegylated) interferon/ribavirin (IFN + Rib), but its cost-effectiveness was not assessed in Brazil. We developed a Markov model to mirror the natural disease history and cohorts of patients with hepatitis C virus (HCV), that received Peg...

Validação do questionário de qualidade de vida (King's Health Questionnaire) em...

OBJETIVO: a proposta deste estudo foi traduzir e validar o King's Health Questionnaire (KHQ) para mulheres brasileiras com incontinência urinária. MÉTODOS: 134 pacientes com incontinência urinária, confirmada pelo estudo urodinâmico, foram recrutadas em ambulatório de Uroginecologia. Inicialmente, traduzimos o questionário KHQ para a língua portuguesa (do Brasil) de acordo com critérios internacionais. Devido à...