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Global age-sex-specific all-cause mortality and life expectancy estimates for 2...
Schumacher, Austin E.; Zheng, Peng; Barber, Ryan M.; A, Bhoomadevi; Aalipour, Mohammad Amin; Aalruz, Hasan; Ababneh, Hazim S.; Abaraogu, Ukachukwu O.Publisher Copyright: © 2025 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an Open Access article under the CC BY 4.0 license.; Comprehensive, comparable, and timely estimates of demographic metrics—including life expectancy and age-specific mortality—are essential for evaluating, understanding, and addressing trends in population health. The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the importance of timely and all-cau...
Burden of infectious disease studies in Europe and the United Kingdom
Charalampous, Periklis; Haagsma, Juanita A.; Jakobsen, Lea S.; Gorasso, Vanessa; Noguer, Isabel; Padron-Monedero, Alicia; Sarmiento, RodrigoPublisher Copyright: © 2023 Cambridge University Press. All rights reserved.; This systematic literature review aimed to provide an overview of the characteristics and methods used in studies applying the Disability-Adjusted Life Years (DALY) concept for infectious diseases within European Union (EU)/European Economic Area (EEA)/European Free Trade Association (EFTA) countries and the United Kingdom. Electronic...
Should we adjust health expenditure for age structure on health systems efficie...
Santos, João Vasco; Martins, Filipa Santos; Pestana, Joana; Souza, Júlio; Freitas, Alberto; Cylus, JonathanFunding Information: This article was supported by National Funds through FCT—Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia,I.P., within CINTESIS, R&D Unit (reference UIDP/4255/2020). JP received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Grant Agreement No.721402. Funding Information: The authors acknowled...
Burden of disease attributable to risk factors in European countries
Gorasso, Vanessa; Morgado, Joana Nazaré; Charalampous, Periklis; Pires, Sara M.; Haagsma, Juanita A.; Santos, João Vasco; Idavain, Jane; Ngwa, Che HenryFunding Information: The authors wish to thank Maarten Engel from the Erasmus MC Library for developing and updating the search strategies. The authors would like to acknowledge the networking support from COST Action CA18218 (European Burden of Disease Network; www.burden-eu.net ), supported by COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology; www.cost.eu ). Publisher Copyright: © 2023, The Author(s).; Obj...
Healthcare Equity and Commissioning
Pereira, António; Biscaia, André; Calado, Isis; Freitas, Alberto; Costa, Andreia; Coelho, AnabelaFunding Information: We thank all the support given by the project “1st.IndiQare—Quality indicators in primary health care: validation and implementation of quality indicators as an assessment and comparison tool” (POCI01-0145-FEDER-030766) and the project “Contracting in primary health care in Portugal: Research and practice” (INSA/2011EXT554). I.C. thanks the Laidlaw Foundation for their financial support as ...
All Patient Refined-Diagnosis Related Groups’ (APR-DRGs) severity of illness an...
Santos, João Vasco; Viana, João; Pinto, Carla; Souza, Júlio; Lopes, Fernando; Freitas, Alberto; Lopes, SílviaPublisher Copyright: © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.; The aims of this study were to assess All-Patient Refined Diagnosis-Related Groups’ (APR-DRG) Severity of Illness (SOI) and Risk of Mortality (ROM) as predictors of in-hospital mortality, comparing with Charlson Comorbidity Index (CCI) and Elixhauser Comorbidity Index (ECI) scor...
Acesso a tratamento endovascular para acidente vascular cerebral isquémico em p...
Dias, Mariana Carvalho; Dos Reis, Ricardo Soares; Santos, João Vasco; Nunes, Ana Paiva; Ferreira, Patrícia; Maia, Bruno; Fragata, Isabel; Reis, JoãoPublisher Copyright: Copyright Ordem dos M dicos 2021.; Introduction: Since the publication of endovascular treatment trials and European Stroke Guidelines, Portugal has re-organized stroke healthcare. The nine centers performing endovascular treatment are not equally distributed within the country, which may lead to differential access to endovascular treatment. Our main aim was to perform a descriptive analys...
Indicadores de qualidade para avaliar os cuidados clínicos prestados a doentes ...
Catumbela, Emanuel; Santos, Cristina; Freitas, Alberto; Costa, Carlos; Sarmento, António; da Costa Pereira, AltamiroIntroduction: After conducting a systematic review of quality indicators for assessing HIV/AIDS clinical care, we aimed to assess the clinical relevance and practice utility of those indicators from the point of view of HIV/AIDS physician experts. Material and Methods: This is an observational, cross-sectional study, in which we selected, by convenience, physicians who work in an Infectious Disease Department o...