Introduction: Worldwide, the COVID-19 epidemic affects thousands of people with devastating effects on the health sector and negative impacts on the health care workforce. The burden of disease attributable to COVID-19 infection among health professionals at the forefront of combating the disease, hitherto unknown, should guide policies for coping with the pandemic, considering the particularities of each profe...
Introduction: In Brazil, the use of third generation cephalosporins associated with a macrolide (azithromycin or clarithromycin), has been recommended at admission. Objective: To estimate the budgetary impact of the use of clarithromycin as a supporting macrolide in the empirical treatment scheme for patients with Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome. Method: Budgetary Impact Analysis. Unified Health System perspe...
Introduction: Acute pulmonary thromboembolism is a potentially fatal disease and the prevalence among patients infected with OVID-19 has increased to require laboratory and imaging examinations, which are not always readily available. D-Dimer levels may be particularly useful for diagnostic exclusion. Objective: To evaluate the clinical utility of D-Dimer POC assay analyzers to rule out the diagnosis of pulmona...