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Contributions to the cross-cultural validation of “A survey of pharmacist knowl...
Gerardo, Sofia; Pimenta, Rui; Alves, Sandra Maria; Alves, Sandra MariaThe use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming various fields, and pharmacy is no exception. AI is increasingly being used to automate, optimize, and personalize various tasks in pharmacy practice, from drug discovery to dispensing to patients. In Community Pharmacy, in addition to these possibilities, it allows for personalized and focused patient care through the selection of more appropriate...
Comparing time series forecasting models for health indicators: A clustering an...
Vinhal, Cláudia; Oliveira, Alexandra; Faria, Brígida; Nascimento, Ana Paula; Pimenta, Rui; Oliveira, Alexandra; Faria, Brigida Monica; Pimenta, RuiTime series are the sequence of observations ordered by equal time intervals, crucial for understanding causality, trends, and forecasts. Its analysis can be applied to several areas, such as engineering, finance, and health (1,2). One problem with the time series study is clustering, mainly understanding when two parametric time series are considered similar (3). The sum of mortality and morbidity, referred to...
Literacia em saúde na pessoa com doença renal crónica em programa regular de he...
Silva, Abilio; Pimenta, Rui; Frazão, JoãoEnquadramento: O aumento da prevalência da doença renal crónica nos últimos anos levou ao seu reconhecimento como um problema de saúde pública, enquanto a literacia em saúde ganhou destaque no campo da saúde pública Objetivo: Avaliar a literacia em saúde na pessoa com doença renal crónica em programa regular de hemodiálise. Metodologia: Estudo de abordagem quantitativa, descritivo transversal usando a versão po...
Demand for emergency services during the COVID-19 pandemic and disease burden: ...
Nunes, Alcina; Costa, Catarina; Martins, João P.; Ferreira, Pedro L.; Pimenta, RuiThe COVID-19 pandemic brought changes in the pattern of care use. A significant increase in the volume of emergencies was expected. However, a significant decrease was observed worldwide.Methods An observational, analytical and cross-sectional study of all records of emergency episodes of patients aged 18 years or older admitted to the emergency services of the University of Porto Hospital Centre (2018-2022) we...
Health care expenses impact on the disability-adjusted life years in non-commun...
Torres, Margarida; Nunes, Alcina; Martins, João P.; Ferreira, Pedro L.; Pimenta, RuiNon-communicable diseases are a global health problem. The metric Disability-Adjusted Life Years was developed to measure its impact on health systems. This metric makes it possible to understand a disease's burden, towards defining healthcare policies. This research analysed the effect of healthcare expenditures in the evolution of disability-adjusted life years for non-communicable diseases in the European Un...
Demand for emergency services during the COVID-19 pandemic and disease burden: ...
Nunes, Alcina ; Costa, Catarina ; Martins, João P.; Ferreira, Pedro L.; Pimenta, RuiThe COVID-19 pandemic brought changes in the pattern of care use. A significant increase in the volume of emergencies was expected. However, a significant decrease was observed worldwide. An observational, analytical and cross-sectional study of all records of emergency episodes of patients aged 18 years or older admitted to the emergency services of the University of Porto Hospital Centre (2018–2022) were ana...
Affinity coefficient for clustering autoregressive moving average models
Nascimento, Ana Paula; Oliveira, Alexandra; Faria, Brígida Mónica; Pimenta, Rui; Vieira, Mónica; Prudêncio, Cristina; Nicolau, Helena BacelarIn various fields, such as economics, finance, bioinformatics, geology, and medicine, namely, in the cases of electroencephalogram, electrocardiogram, and biotechnology, cluster analysis of time series is necessary. The first step in cluster applications is to establish a similarity/dissimilarity coefficient between time series. This article introduces an extension of the affinity coefficient for the autoregres...
Assessing sleep quality of professional drivers: an analysis based on self-perc...
Lopes, T.; Faria, Brigida Monica; Oliveira, Alexandra; Pimenta, Rui; Reis, L. P.Portugal has been ranked as the fourth European country with the highest incidence of falling asleep while driving. The quality of sleep comprises both quantitative aspects, such as sleep duration and sleep latency, and qualitative aspects, such as mood and health status. Neglecting the quality and quantity of sleep can result in fatigue, affecting multiple aspects of safe driving, such as attentiveness to the ...
Knowledge about type 2 diabetes: its impact for future management
Ferreira, Pedro L. ; Morais, Carminda ; Pimenta, Rui; Ribeiro, Inês ; Amorim, Isabel ; Alves, Sandra Maria; Santiago, LuizDiabetes can cause several long-term complications. Knowledge about this disease can play an important role in reducing diabetes-related complications. In addition, the lack of awareness leads to misconceptions, which joined with inadequate knowledge, are relevant barriers to proper diabetes management. In this study, we aimed to assess the diabetes knowledge of a type 2 diabetes (T2D) population and identify m...
Health care expenses impact on the disability-adjusted life years in non-commun...
Torres, Margarida ; Nunes, Alcina ; Martins, João P.; Ferreira, Pedro L. ; Pimenta, RuiNon-communicable diseases are a global health problem. The metric Disability-Adjusted Life Years was developed to measure its impact on health systems. This metric makes it possible to understand a disease’s burden, towards defining healthcare policies. This research analysed the effect of healthcare expenditures in the evolution of disability-adjusted life years for noncommunicable diseases in the European Uni...