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Treatment and Other Healthcare Use of Breast Cancer Patients With a Previous Ca...
Morais, S; Costa, AR; Lopes-Conceicao, L; Brandao, M; Borges, M; Araujo, N; Dias, T; Fontes, F; Pereira, S; Lunet, NBackground/Aim: To quantify the association between a previous cancer diagnosis and healthcare use among breast cancer (BC) patients, and estimate five-year recurrence-free survival (RFS). Patients and Methods: Women with BC were classified according to a previous cancer diagnosis (BC or other). Healthcare use during the first year and five-year RFS were obtained through clinical and administrative records. Adj...
Trends in pharmacological therapy following an acute coronary syndrome in Portu...
Pereira, M; Lopes-Conceicao, L; Bennett, K; Dias, P; Laszczynska, O; Lunet, N; Azevedo, AAIMS: To assess time trends in the use of main drug classes for secondary prevention, during hospitalization and at hospital discharge, following an acute coronary syndrome, in Portugal, using a systematic review. METHODS: We searched PubMed, from inception until 2012, to identify studies reporting the proportion of acute coronary syndrome patients treated with main pharmacological therapy. We used linear regre...