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Desprescrição em idosos polimedicados de cuidados paliativos
Pereira, Olívia R.; Rocha, Mariana; Gonçalves, Liseta; Ribeiro, Hugo; Rodrigues, Inês; Pinto, Isabel C.; Nascimento, Luís; Magalhães, Carlos PiresOs idosos com doenças limitantes e polimedicados devem, numa perspetiva de programa de cuidados centrados na pessoa, receber tratamento farmacológico personalizado. A revisão da medicação considera o tratamento farmacológico no contexto da vida e da doença da pessoa, sendo a desprescrição um processo sistemático de descontinuação de fármacos cujos danos superam os benefícios. Métodos: O objetivo deste projeto é...
Desprescrição em idosos polimedicados de cuidados paliativos
Rocha, Mariana; Gonçalves, Liseta; Ribeiro, Hugo; Rodrigues, Inês; Nascimento, Luís; Pereira, Olívia R.; Pinto, Isabel C.; Magalhães, Carlos PiresOs idosos com doenças limitantes e polimedicados devem, numa perspetiva de programa de cuidados centrados na pessoa, receber tratamento farmacológico personalizado. A revisão da medicação considera o tratamento farmacológico no contexto da vida e da doença da pessoa, sendo a desprescrição um processo sistemático de descontinuação de fármacos cujos danos superam os benefícios. Método: O objetivo deste projeto é ...
Psychosocial risks in remote work: A systematic review
Ribeiro, Hugo; Santos, Joana; Carvalhais, CarlosThe introduction of new information and communication technologies (ICT) into labor relations, led to new ways of working. For instance, remote work has been enabled by advances in digital development that narrowed down distance allowing workers to communicate and perform tasks from nearly anywhere (Ciccarelli, 2022). The different types of ICT-enabled remote work, are giving rise to new challenges in terms of ...
Platelet Membrane Proteins as Pain Biomarkers in Patients with Severe Dementia
Ribeiro, Hugo; Alves, Raquel; Jorge, Joana; Gonçalves, Ana Cristina; Sarmento-Ribeiro, Ana Bela; Veríssimo, Manuel T.; Dourado, MaríliaPain is one of the most frequent health problems, and its evaluation and therapeutic approach largely depend on patient self-report. When it is not possible to obtain a self-report, the therapeutic decision becomes more difficult and limited. This study aims to evaluate whether some membrane platelet proteins could be of value in pain characterization. To achieve this goal, we used 53 blood samples obtained fro...
Opioids and constipation therapy in the last week of life: Their impact on pati...
Ribeiro, Hugo; Magalhães, Júlia; Cardoso, Tatiana; Chaves-Castro, Isabel; Lopes-Mota, Carla; Costa, Elisabete; Rocha, Patrícia da; Lopes, LuísaThe use of opioids to control pain at the end of life may cause constipation, a symptom that can negatively influence the well-being of patients and caregivers. The main aim of this study was to evaluate the impact of constipation on symptomatic control and patients' overall quality of life at this stage. A particular focus was placed on opioids. We also intended to investigate whether constipation and caregive...
Monocytes in the Characterization of Pain in Palliative Patients with Severe De...
Ribeiro, Hugo; Alves, Raquel; Jorge, Joana; Gonçalves, Ana Cristina; Sarmento-Ribeiro, Ana Bela; Veríssimo, Manuel T.; Andrade, José PauloIn assessing and managing pain, when obtaining a self-report is impossible, therapeutic decision-making becomes more challenging. This study aimed to investigate whether monocytes and some membrane monocyte proteins, identified as a cluster of differentiation (CD), could be potential non-invasive peripheral biomarkers in identifying and characterizing pain in patients with severe dementia. We used 53 blood samp...
Desprescrição em idosos polimedicados: um programa de cuidado centrado na pesso...
Rocha, Mariana; Gonçalves, Liseta; Ribeiro, Hugo; Rodrigues, Inês; Pinto, Isabel C.; Nascimento, Luís; Magalhães, Carlos Pires; Pereira, Olívia R.O regime terapêutico medicamentoso em idosos polimedicados e com doenças limitantes deve ser personalizado e incluído num programa de cuidados centrado na pessoa. O presente projeto consiste num programa de desprescrição/ revisão terapêutica com o objetivo de melhorar os indicadores farmacoterapêuticos e a qualidade de vida de idosos com doenças limitantes e expectativa de vida limitada. Para tal, será realizad...
Polypill use for the prevention of cardiovascular disease: A position paper
Araújo, Francisco; Caldeira, Daniel; Aguiar, Carlos; Antunes, José Pedro; Cardim, Nuno; Cunha, Vitória; Fonseca, Luísa; Moura, José P.Cardiovascular (CV) guidelines stress the need for global intervention to manage risk factors and reduce the risk of major vascular events. Growing evidence supports the use of polypill as a strategy to prevent cerebral and cardiovascular disease, however it is still underused in clinical practice. This paper presents an expert consensus aimed to summarize the data regarding polypill use. The authors consider t...
Churn in services - A bibliometric review
Ribeiro, Hugo; Barbosa, Belem; Moreira, António; Rodrigues, Ricardo GouveiaThe purpose of this article is to identify the most impactful research on customer churn and to map the conceptual and intellectual structure of its field of study. Data were collected from the WoS database, comprising 338 articles published between 1995 and 2020. Several bibliometric techniques were applied, including analysis of co-words, co-citation, bibliographic coupling, and co-authorship networks. R soft...
Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), pain and aging: Adjusting presc...
Ribeiro, Hugo; Rodrigues, Inês; Napoleão, Leonardo; Lira, Luís; Marques, Denise; Veríssimo, Manuel T.; Andrade, José Paulo; Dourado, MaríliaA narrative review of papers published from January 2011 to December 2021, after a literature search in selected databases using the terms "pharmacokinetics", "ibuprofen", "diclofenac", "acemetacin", "naproxen", "etodolac" and "etoricoxib" was performed. From 828 articles identified, only eight met the inclusion criteria. Selective COX-2 inhibitors are associated with higher cardiovascular risk, while non-selec...