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Portuguese in vitro antibiotic susceptibilities favor current nontuberculous my...
Durão, V; Silva, A; Macedo, R; Durão, P; Santos-Silva, A; Duarte, RSetting Nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) are increasingly recognized as causative agents of opportunistic infections in humans for which effective treatment is challenging. There is, however, very little information on the prevalence of NTM drug resistance in Portugal. Objective and Design Our aim was to analyze the drug susceptibility testing (DST) performed in NTM at the Portuguese National Health Institute ...
Guidelines and practice of evidence based medicine.
Sampaio, C; Durão, VThis is a review paper with pedagogic goals in essence. The concept of guidelines is defined and the function and types of guidelines described. Different types of guidelines, such as normative, methodological and practice-motivated, are considered. The most common methods for the drafting of guidelines are presented. The difference between evidence-based guidelines and consensus-based guidelines is established...