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Surgical site infection surveillance in knee and hip arthroplasty: optimizing a...
Guedes, M; Almeida, F; Andrade, P; Moreira, L; Pedrosa, A; Azevedo, A; Rocha-Pereira, NBackground: Surgical site infection (SSI) is an important cause of disease burden and healthcare costs. Fully manual surveillance is time-consuming and prone to subjectivity and inter-individual variability, which can be partly overcome by semi-automated surveillance. Algorithms used in orthopaedic SSI semi-automated surveillance have reported high sensitivity and important workload reduction. This study aimed ...
Contextual Hospital Conditions and the Risk of Nosocomial SARS-CoV-2 Infection:...
Almeida, F; Correia, S; Leal, C; Guedes, M; Duro, R; Andrade, P; Pedrosa, A; Rocha-Pereira, N; Lima-Alves, C; Azevedo, AObjective: Knowledge of the role of hospital conditions in SARS-CoV-2 transmission should inform strategies for the prevention of nosocomial spread of this pathogen and of similarly transmitted viruses. This study aimed to identify risk factors for nosocomial acquisition of SARS-CoV-2. Methods: We ran a nested case-control study with incidence density sampling among adult patients hospitalized for >7 days (Augu...
Effect of active video games on the balance of healthy elderly: systematic review
Pedrosa, A; Gonçalves, M; Castro, M; Diniz, R; Tocha, S; Alves Lopes, AntónioIntroduction: Active video games are an important parcel of our society. For many years this type of entertainment has been looked at as just a ludic device. More recently this device has been used as a form of therapeutic intervention. Objectives: Review in a systematic way the available scientific evidence about the efficacy of active video games, in balance on healthy elderly people and if necessary propose ...