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AVALIA-ULS: family doctors' perceptions on resources and training

Background: the Health Management Studies Group (GEST) of the Portuguese Association of General and Family Medicine (APMGF) created the "AVALIA-ULS: Analysis of the Advantages and Limitations of Local Health Units (ULS) – Perspectives from General and Family Medicine" questionnaire to assess the perceptions of General and Family Medicine (MGF) professionals regarding the universalization of this model. This art...

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The influence of shoulder position during multi-joint exercises in the relative...

Scapular muscles changes, as increased upper trapezius activity and decreased middle and lower trapezius and serratus anterior muscle activity, have been demonstrated in shoulder pain specific or non-specific conditions. Shoulder external rotation exercises have been recommended to improve scapular activity in shoulder pain. To evaluate the relative scapular muscles activity during multi-joint exercises combini...

Postural control during turn on the light task assisted by functional electrica...

Postural control mechanisms have a determinant role in reaching tasks and are typically impaired in post-stroke patients. Functional electrical stimulation (FES) has been demonstrated to be a promising therapy for improving upper limb (UL) function. However, according to our knowledge, no study has evaluated FES infuence on postural control. This study aims to evaluate the infuence of FES UL assistance, during ...

Usability of functional electrical stimulation in upper limb rehabilitation in ...

Stroke leads to significant impairment in upper limb (UL) function. The goal of rehabilitation is the reestablishment of pre-stroke motor stroke skills by stimulating neuroplasticity. Among several rehabilitation approaches, functional electrical stimulation (FES) is highlighted in stroke rehabilitation guidelines as a supplementary therapy alongside the standard care modalities. The aim of this study is to pre...

Petrha+: A serious game to enhance physiotherapy students' clinical reasoning

Role play and simulated patients are tools frequently used in undergraduate physiotherapy courses to help students gain familiarity with what they will find in future real-life encounters. However, these approaches have limitations when it comes to delivering diversity and repetition to a large number of students and are mostly bounded to the school’s premises. Web-based virtual patient software can help to ove...

Determining internal medicine length of stay by means of predictive analytics

In recent years, hospital overcrowding has become a crucial aspect to take into consideration in inpatient management, which may negatively affect the quality of service provided to the patient. Inpatient management aims, through efficient planning, to maximise the availability of beds and conditions for the patient, considering cost rationalisation. In this way, this research has allowed the prediction of the ...

Intelligent decision support in beds management and hospital planning

Worldwide, due to the constant overcrowding experienced in hospitals, hospital beds are one of the most needed resources, proving to be an extremely important feature in hospitalization planning and management, since the main purpose is to optimize their occupancy rate. This study aims to predict the future flow of patients after admission to a particular inpatient specialty to allow a more assertive planning b...

"What brings you here Mrs Maria?": Pilot experience of simulated patients in an...

Simulating different aspects of clinical practice is a tool available for pre-graduate training of healthcare professionals. It presents levels of complexity ranging from training skills in class, to consultation with simulated and standardized patients. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the perceptions of physiotherapy students about the performance of theater students as simulated patients in a pilot ...

Nursing activities score: cross-cultural adaptation and validation for the port...

Introduction: In Portugal, after validation of NAS (2017), the TISS 28 ceases to be the only tool validated for this purpose, measuring only 43.3% of the workload,while the NAS covers 80.8% of the nurses workload in the ICU. Objective: Translate and cross-cultural the NAS measurement instrument to the Portuguese population, testing their psychometric properties. Methods: Themethodological option relied on a des...