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Quality and safety of proximity care centered on the person and their home
Martins, Carlos; Escoval, Ana; Lopes, Manuel; Mendonça, Susana; Fonseca, CésarFunding Information: This research was funded by FEDER. Interreg VA España-Portugal Program (POCTEP), International Institute for Research and Innovation in Ageing—Capitalize. 0786_CAP4ie_4_P. Publisher Copyright: © 2023 by the authors.; The quality and safety of health care is a priority, a requirement and a demand of health organizations and social institutions with concrete purposes of progressively providin...
Quality and safety of proximity care centered on the person and their domicilia...
Martins, Carlos; Escoval, Ana; Lopes, Manuel; Mendonça, Susana; Fonseca, CésarFunding Information: This work is funded by national funds through the Foundation for Science and Technology, under the project UIDP/04923/2020. Publisher Copyright: © 2023 by the authors.; The quality and safety of health care are a priority for health organizations and social institutions to progressively provide people with a higher level of health and well-being. It is in the development of this path that h...
Portuguese Family Physicians’ Perceptions on Pain Management—A Qualitative Stud...
Ribeiro, Joana Fernandes; Baptista, Sofia; Pinto, Marta; Mendes, Ana; Almeida, Hugo; Teixeira, Andreia; Martins, CarlosFunding Information: This article was supported by National Funds through FCT—Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P. within CINTESIS, R&D Unit (reference UIDP/4255/2020). Publisher Copyright: © 2022 by the authors.; Pain is an important cause of disability and constitutes the main reason people seek medical care, especially in general practice. Nevertheless, nearly half of adult Europeans with chronic pai...
Trends on aspergillus epidemiology
Sabino, Raquel; Gonçalves, Paulo; Martins Melo, Aryse; Simões, Daniela; Oliveira, Mariana; Francisco, Mariana; Viegas, Carla; Carvalho, DinahIdentification of Aspergillus to species level is important since sibling species may display variable susceptibilities to multiple antifungal drugs and also because correct identification contributes to improve the knowledge of epidemiological studies. Two retrospective laboratory studies were conducted on Aspergillus surveillance at the Portuguese National Mycology Reference Laboratory. The first, covering th...
Translation and cultural adaptation of a prostate cancer screening decision aid
Baptista, Sofia; Heleno, Bruno; Pinto, Marta; Guimarães, Bruna; China, Diogo; Ramos, João Pedro; Teixeira, Andreia; Taylor, Kathryn L; Martins, CarlosH4A Primary Healthcare Research Network scholars programme for support of research. This article was supported by National Funds through FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia,I.P., within CINTESIS, R&D Unit (reference UIDB/4255/2020); OBJECTIVES: To translate and culturally adapt an English language patient decision aid addressing prostate cancer screening, so it can be used by Portuguese men. DESIGN: Qu...
Naive and stem cell memory T cell subset recovery reveals opposing reconstituti...
Soares, Maria V.; Azevedo, Rita I.; Ferreira, Inês A.; Bucar, Sara; Ribeiro, Ana C.; Vieira, Ana; Pereira, Paulo N.G.; Ribeiro, Ruy M.; Ligeiro, DarioThis project received funding from: Fundacão para a Ciência e Tecnologia, Portugal under the Harvard Medical School–Portugal Program project: Induction of Immune Tolerance in Human Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation (HMSP-ICT/0001/2011) (JFLacerda PI), and UID/BIM/50005/2019, project funded by Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT)/ Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia e Ensino Superior (MCTE...
Translation and cultural adaptation of the web and printed versions of a decisi...
Baptista, Sofia; Heleno, Bruno; Pinto, Marta; Teixeira, Andreia; Taylor, Kathryn L.; Martins, CarlosINTRODUCTION: Prostate cancer is one of the most frequent cancers among men. However, screening for prostate cancer carries many risks and a small benefit. Thus, based on the available evidence, most medical organisations advocate a shared decision-making process, in which decision aids may play an important role. Nevertheless, to date there is no such instrument to be used by Portuguese men. Our goal is to tra...
Quaternary prevention
Martins, Carlos; Godycki-Cwirko, Maciek; Heleno, Bruno; Brodersen, JohnPublisher Copyright: © 2018 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.; Background: According to the Wonca International Dictionary for General/Family Practice Quaternary Prevention is defined as: ‘Action taken to identify patient at risk of overmedicalization, to protect him from new medical invasion, and to suggest to him interventions, which are ethically acceptable.’ ...
Web-Based Versus Usual Care and Other Formats of Decision Aids to Support Prost...
Baptista, Sofia; Teles Sampaio, Elvira; Heleno, Bruno; Azevedo, Luís Filipe; Martins, CarlosThis study was supported by the European Regional Development Fund through the operation (POCI-01-0145-FEDER-007746) funded by the Programa Operacional Competitividade e Internacionalização–Compete2020 and by National Funds through Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia within the Center for Health Technology and Services Research, R&D Unit (reference UID/IC/4255/2013).; BACKGROUND: Prostate cancer is a leading...
Comparison between influenza coded primary care consultations and national infl...
Páscoa, Rosália; Rodrigues, Ana Paula; Silva, Susana; Nunes, Baltazar; Martins, CarlosInfluenza is associated with severe illness, death, and economic burden. Sentinel surveillance systems have a central role in the community since they support public health interventions. This study aimed to describe and compare the influenza-coded primary care consultations with the reference index of influenza activity used in Portugal, General Practitioners Sentinel Network, from 2012 to 2017. An ecological ...