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The impact of intensive care admission criteria on elderly mortality
Cintra,Marco Túlio Gualberto; Belém,Dinah; Moraes,Edgar Nunes; Botoni,Fernando Antônio; Bicalho,Maria Aparecida CamargosSUMMARY OBJECTIVE To review systematically the influence of admission criteria on the mortality of elderly patients under intensive therapy. METHODS We performed a search on the PUBMED and BIREME databases by using the MeSH and DeCS terms “intensive care units”, “patient admission”, and “aged” in Portuguese, English, and Spanish. Only prospective and retrospective cohort studies were included. We analyzed the s...
Functional decline in the elderly with MCI: Cultural adaptation of the ADCS-ADL...
Cintra,Fabiana Carla Matos da Cunha; Cintra,Marco Túlio Gualberto; Nicolato,Rodrigo; Bertola,Laiss; Ávila,Rafaela TeixeiraSummary Objective: Translate, transcultural adaptation and application to Brazilian Portuguese of the Alzheimer’s Disease Cooperative Study - Activities of Daily Living (ADCS-ADL) scale as a cognitive screening instrument. Method: We applied the back translation added with pretest and bilingual methods. The sample was composed by 95 elderly individuals and their caregivers. Thirty-two (32) participants were dia...
Applicability of the single-case methodology in a patient with dementia with Le...
Bertola,Laiss; Paula,Jonas Jardim de; Moraes,Edgar Nunes; Haase,Vitor Geraldi; Malloy-Diniz,Leandro Fernandes
Evaluation of the brazilian public Alzheimer's disease treatment program in 2008
Moraes,Edgar Nunes; Cintra,Marco Túlio Gualberto; Belém,Dinah; Moraes,Flávia Lanna<p><b>INTRODUCTION:</b> The Healthcare Program for Alzheimer's Disease Carriers established in 2002 that anticholinesterasic drugs should be provided on a free basis in Brazil.<br> <b>OBJECTIVES:</b> To evaluate the estimates for the program coverage based on data regarding the delivery of anticholinesterasics in several regions and states of Brazil.<br> <b>METHODOLOGY:</b> It was estimated the number of elderl...