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Práticas relacionais dos enfermeiros com a família numa unidade de cuidados int...
Machado, Ana Rita; Antunes, Cristina; Imaginário, CristinaEnquadramento: O cuidado centrado na família é uma abordagem que atende às necessidades e valores de cada família. Objetivo: Conhecer a perceção dos enfermeiros da Unidade de Cuidados Intensivos Cardíacos (UCIC) de um Centro Hospitalar da Zona Norte de Portugal (CHZNP) sobre as Práticas Relacionais dos Enfermeiros com a Família em Unidade de Cuidados Intensivos (PREFUCI). Metodologia: Estudo quantitativo, descr...
Risk factors for infection, predictors of severe disease, and antibody response...
Machado, Ana Rita; Barreira, Sofia; Bandeira, Matilde; Veldhoen, Marc; Gomes, Andreia; Serrano, Marta; Duarte, Catarina; Rato, MariaObjective: To identify risk factors for SARS-CoV-2 infection and for severe/critical COVID-19, and to assess the humoral response after COVID-19 in these patients. Methods: Nationwide study of adult patients with inflammatory RMDs prospectively followed in the Rheumatic Diseases Portuguese Register-Reuma.pt-during the first 6 months of the pandemic. We compared patients with COVID-19 with those who did not deve...
Rheumatology residency in a European Reference Network on Rare and Complex Conn...
Dourado, Eduardo; Melo, Ana Teresa; Pacini, Giovanni; Pankow, Anne; Klemm, Philipp; Machado, Ana RitaRheumatology is a growing medical speciality with many attractive points to young doctors. Residency is a demanding period of a physician's life, and choosing the right hospital for one's residency may not be easy. We report on our personal experience as Rheumatology residents in European Reference Network on Rare and Complex Connective Tissue and Musculoskeletal Diseases (ERN-ReCONNET) centres.
New actor types in electricity market simulation models: Deliverable D4.4
Machado, Ana Rita; Couto, António; Schimeczek, Christoph; Qiu, Dawei; José, Débora Regina S.; Papadaskalopoulos, Dimitrios; Strbac, GoranABSTRACT: The modelling of agents in the simulation models and tools is of primary importance if the quality and the validity of the simulation outcomes are at stake. This is the first version of the report that deals with the representation of electricity market actors’ in the agent based models (ABMs) used in TradeRES project. With the AMIRIS, the EMLab-Generation (EMLab), the MASCEM and the RESTrade models b...
No evidence so far on the protective effect of hydroxychloroquine to prevent CO...
Romão, Vasco C.; Machado, Ana Rita; Fonseca, João EuricoWe read with interest the comment by Joob and Wiwanitkit on the letter published by Monti et al in the Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases (ARD). In it, the authors state that there are no reported cases of patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) with COVID-19 and suggest that this may be due to a protective effect of hydroxychloroquine, a mainstay treatment taken by most patients with SLE. A similar sugg...
“I Read”: reading and writing skills promotion software
Sucena, Ana; Marques, Cátia; Silva, Ana Filipa; Ramalho, Ana; Machado, Ana Rita; Santos, Ana Raquel; Santos, Cláudia; Garrido, Cristina; Freitas, HelenaPersistent difficulties in reading and writing learning are a risk factor for motivation in school and for children's schools learning. In this way, ludic instruments have been developed to face these difficulties. "I read" is a software that seeks through a systematic training and with different games, to develop and train reading and writing skills in a playful and complementary way. It should be used with ch...
Eligibility criteria for biologic disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs in axia...
Marona, Jose; Sepriano, Alexandre; Rodrigues-Manica, Santiago; Pimentel-Santos, Fernando; Mourão, Ana Filipa; Gouveia, Nélia; Branco, Jaime CunhaObjectives: To compare definitions of high disease activity of the Ankylosing Spondylitis Disease Activity Score (ASDAS) and Bath Ankylosing Spondylitis Disease Activity Index (BASDAI) in selecting patients for treatment with biologic disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (bDMARDs). Methods: Patients from Rheumatic Diseases Portuguese Register (Reuma.pt) with a clinical diagnosis of axial spondyloarthritis (axS...
Biologic disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs and patient-reported outcomes i...
Rodrigues-Manica, Santiago; Silva, Joana; Machado, Ana Rita; Coelho, Constança; Duarte, Joana; Vieira De Sousa, Elsa Cristina; Tavares Costa, JoséThis paper is to assess the efficacy of different biologic DMARDs (bDMARDs) on several patient-reported outcomes (PROs) in randomized controlled trials (RCT) in axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA). A systematic literature review (SLR) was performed. MEDLINE (May 1, 2018) was used with the filters "published in the last 10 years" and "humans." The PICO criteria used were Patients: adults with radiographic axSpA (r-a...
A COVID-19 outbreak in a rheumatology department upon the early days of the pan...
Romão, Vasco C.; Oliveira Ramos, Filipa; Machado, Ana Rita; Martins, Patrícia; Barreira, Sofia; Silva-Dinis, Joana; Galaio, Luís MendonçaObjectives: To describe our experience with a coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak within a large rheumatology department early in the pandemic. Methods: Symptomatic and asymptomatic healthcare workers (HCWs) had a naso-oropharyngeal swab for detection of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and were followed clinically. Reverse transcription polymerase-chain reaction (RT-PCR) wa...
Effect of biologic disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs targeting remission i...
Machado, Ana Rita; Rodrigues Manica, Santiago; Silva, Joana Leite; Alho, Irina; Coelho, Constança; Duarte, Joana; Florêncio, CláudiaObjectives: To assess the efficacy of biologic DMARDs (bDMARDs) in achieving Assessment of Spondyloarthritis International Society partial remission (ASAS-PR) and/or Ankylosing Spondylitis Disease Activity Score inactive disease (ASDAS-ID), as remission-like surrogates, in axial SpA (axSpA). Methods: Data from randomized controlled trials (RCTs), including long-term extensions, were included. A systematic liter...