Background/Objectives: Legacy planning should respect te care preferences of people facing serious illness and integrate palliative care (PC). Legacy creation with the guidance of health professionals in PC assumes a therapeutic nature and aims to respond to the psychospiritual needs of patients and their families. To date, research on professional experiences to create legacy in PC remains scarce. Therefore, t...
Background: Providing adequate care for the person with a fragility fracture is essential to prevent recurrences. A key strategy involves training by improving nursing care in the fields of osteoporosis and fragility fractures. However, in Portugal, there is no report on the level of knowledge of nurses, nor experimental studies on how to improve it. Objective: The study aimed to assess the knowledge of Rehabil...
Objectives A EULAR task force was convened to develop points to consider (PtC) for patient education in physical activity and self-management of pain in young people with juvenile-onset rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases during transitional care. Methods A task force of 26 people from 10 European countries followed the EULAR Standardised Operating Procedures to establish overarching principles (OAPs) and Pt...
© European Alliance of Associations for Rheumatology, EULAR 2024. Re-use permitted under CC BY-NC-ND. No commercial re-use. No derivatives. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ on behalf of EULAR.; OBJECTIVES: A EULAR task force was convened to develop points to consider (PtC) for patient education in physical activity and self-management of pain in young people with juvenile-onset rheumatic and musculo...
Introdução: O envelhecimento da população, implica o desenvolvimento de novas estratégias, que vão ao encontro das necessidades das pessoas idosas na contemporaneidade. Face à possibilidade e perspetiva da pessoa idosa sobre a permanência no seu domicílio, o serviço de apoio domiciliário surge como fundamental, assim como a qualidade de vida das pessoas idosas apoiadas por este. Objetivo: Mapear os níveis de qu...
Background: the disruption caused by the pandemic COVID-19 in the access to health care was enormous. Many nurses used telephone consultation or other digital means (telenursing) to mitigate the impact on the population's health, but there are no recommendations for this practice. Objectives: to define recommendations to promote the development and standardization of the provision of telenursing care in Portuga...
Ageing and physical frailty associated with decrease in muscle and bone mass lead to the older persons’ vulnerability and increased risk of falling. It is estimated that one in every ten falls in this age group results in a fracture, leading to a downward spiral in their health status, causing greater dependence, with a progressive functional decline that makes it difficult to return to their functional and soc...
Enquadramento: A evidência científica revela lacunas de conhecimento dos profissionais de saúde em cuidados paliativos, influenciando a qualidade dos cuidados.Objetivo: Caracterizar o conhecimento em cuidados paliativos dos profissionais de saúde, num hospital central universitário português.Metodologia: Estudo quantitativo, descritivo-correlacional, transversal, tendo como população-alvo os profissionais de sa...
Background and Objectives: Symptomatic irreversible pulpitis in permanent mature teeth is a common indication for nonsurgical root canal treatment (NSRCT), but contemporary studies have reported on vital pulp therapy (VPT) applied in such teeth as a less invasive treatment. This systematic review assessed the outcomes of VPT, including partial and full pulpotomy performed with hydraulic calcium silicate cements...
Background and objectives: The long-term outcome of endodontic microsurgery (EMS) performed on root-filled teeth affected by post-treatment apical periodontitis (AP) has been a matter of debate, re-launched by the introduction of novel root-end filling materials which have been proven to improve the short-term outcome of EMS. The purpose of this systematic review and meta-analysis is to evaluate the clinical an...