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Real-world effectiveness in hypertension and hyperlipidemia collaborative manag...
Costa, Suzete; Biscaia, José Luís; Horta, Maria Rute; Romano, Sónia; Guerreiro, José; Heudtlass, Peter; Cary, Maria; Romão, MarianaThere is evidence of the efficacy of collaborative health interventions with pharmacies and primary care providers but little of its real-world effectiveness. We aimed to assess the effectiveness and discuss the design and challenges of hypertension and hyperlipidemia management between pharmacies and primary care providers using real-world data exchange between providers and experimental bundled payment. This ...
Costs and consequences of the Portuguese needle-exchange program in community p...
Borges, Margarida; Gouveia, Miguel; Fiorentino, Francesca; Jesus, Gonçalo; Cary, Maria; Guerreiro, José Pedro; Costa, Suzete; Carneiro, António VazBackground: Needle-exchange programs (NEPs) reduce infections in people who inject drugs. This study assesses the impact community pharmacies have had in the Needle-Exchange Program in Portugal since 2015. Methods: Health gains were measured by the number of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) infections averted, which were estimated, in each scenario, based on a standard model in the...
Quality and risk of bias appraisals of systematic reviews are inconsistent acro...
Gates, Michelle; Gates, Allison; Duarte, Gonçalo Silva; Cary, Maria; Becker, Monika; Prediger, Barbara; Vandermeer, Ben; Fernandes, Ricardo M.Objective: The objective of the study was to evaluate the inter-rater and intercenter reliability, usability, and utility of A MeaSurement Tool to Assess systematic Reviews (AMSTAR), AMSTAR 2, and Risk Of Bias In Systematic reviews (ROBIS). Study design and setting: This is a prospective evaluation using 30 systematic reviews of randomized trials, undertaken at three international centers. Results: Reviewers co...
An overview of systematic reviews of economic evaluations of pharmacy-based pub...
Costa, Suzete; Cary, Maria; Helling, Dennis K.; Pereira, João; Mateus, CéuBackground: Pharmacy interventions are a subset of public health interventions and its research is usually performed within the scope of a trial. The economic evaluation of pharmacy interventions requires certain considerations which have some similarities to those of public health interventions and to economic evaluations alongside trials. The objective of this research is to perform an overview of systematic ...
Intensive monitoring studies for assessing medicines : a systematic review
Torre, Carla; Cary, Maria; Borges, Fábio Cardoso; Ferreira, Paula S.; Alarcão, Joana; Leufkens, Hubert G.; Costa, João; Martins, Ana PaulaIntroduction: Intensive monitoring (IM) is one of the methods of post-marketing active surveillance based upon event monitoring, which has received interest in the current medicines regulatory landscape. For a specific period of time, IM involves primary data collection and is actively focused on gathering longitudinal information, mainly safety, since the first day of drug use. Objectives: To describe IM syste...
Evaluation of the reliability, usability, and applicability of AMSTAR, AMSTAR 2...
Gates, Allison; Gates, Michelle; Duarte, Gonçalo Silva; Cary, Maria; Becker, Monika; Prediger, Barbara; Vandermeer, Ben; Fernandes, Ricardo M.Background: Systematic reviews (SRs) of randomised controlled trials (RCTs) can provide the best evidence to inform decision-making, but their methodological and reporting quality varies. Tools exist to guide the critical appraisal of quality and risk of bias in SRs, but evaluations of their measurement properties are limited. We will investigate the interrater reliability (IRR), usability, and applicability of...
Effectiveness of needle and syringe Programmes in people who inject drugs : an ...
Fernandes, Ricardo M.; Cary, Maria; Duarte, Gonçalo; Jesus, Gonçalo; Alarcão, Joana; Torre, Carla; Costa, Suzete; Costa, João; Carneiro, António VazBackground: Needle and syringe programmes (NSP) are a critical component of harm reduction interventions among people who inject drugs (PWID). Our primary objective was to summarize the evidence on the effectiveness of NSP for PWID in reducing blood-borne infection transmission and injecting risk behaviours (IRB). Methods: We conducted an overview of systematic reviews that included PWID (excluding prisons and ...