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Academic Primary Care Units: From Dream to Reality

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Competencies Addressed During Undergraduate Medical Education: Perceptions of F...

Introduction: Medical education must adapt to society’s needs, ensuring that the skills acquired by students align with those perceived as necessary for high-quality medical practice. The aim of this study was to assess the perceptions of medical trainees who graduated from University of Coimbra’s Faculty of Medicine between 2020/21 and 2022/23, currently working as foundation year or specialty trainee doctors,...

Eating Habits of People with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in Portugal: A Cross-Sect...

Introduction: Nutrition is a cornerstone of diabetes mellitus prevention and management; therefore, it is essential to enable patients to adopt healthy eating habits. Previous studies have not yet documented the main errors in the eating habits of Portuguese people with type 2 diabetes mellitus. This study aims to identify the main errors in the eating habits of people living with type 2 diabetes mellitus in Po...

Knowledge, opinions and experiences of nurses and nursing students in Portugal ...

Background The opening up of the laws to medicinal cannabis in recent years is a key factor in the growth of this therapy, but there is little information about what nurses know and think about it. The present paper seeks to analyze the knowledge, opinions, and experiences of nurses and nursing students in Portugal regarding the use of cannabis and to understand gender differences. Methods A self-completion que...

O Um novo futuro para a medicina geral e familiar em Portugal

O Livro Azul: um futuro para a Medicina de Família em Portugal, editado em 1990 pela Associação Portuguesa de Médicos de Clínica Geral, marcou os anos seguintes e conceptualizou a Reforma dos Cuidados de Saúde Primários, iniciada em 2005, mas não implementada na totalidade. No momento atual de insatisfação profissional é importante rever os princípios que nortearão a medicina geral e familiar no futuro. O médic...

Luiz Miguel Santiago: a person-centred life, practice and science

Palliative Care Needs in Primary Health Care: Characteristics of Patients with ...

Introduction: The increase in life expectancy brought a higher prevalence of chronic diseases, with an emphasis on those who reached advanced stages and required palliative care. We aimed to characterize patients diagnosed with advanced neoplasms and/or dementia accompanied in primary health care and to test the sensitivity of two tools for identifying patients with palliative needs.Methods: We recruited three ...

Measuring adherence to inhaled control medication in patients with asthma: Comp...

Background Previous studies have demonstrated the feasibility of using an asthma app to support medication management and adherence but failed to compare with other measures currently used in clinical practice. However, in a clinical setting, any additional adherence measurement must be evaluated in the context of both the patient and physician perspectives so that it can also help improve the process of shared...

Web-based interventions to improve blood pressure control in patients with hype...

Introduction Hypertension is the major cause of cardiovascular disease and mortality in the world. Blood pressure control (BPC) is recognised as a key measure in the management of hypertension. Several studies have been conducted assessing the impact of specific web-based interventions in improving BPC. Our systematic review intends to identify all the available web-based interventions and determine if and whic...

Risco familiar, classificação socioeconómica e multimorbilidade em medicina ger...

Objetivos: Perceber se a avaliação familiar está preenchida e atualizada, conhecer o risco familiar e a associação deste e da classificação socioeconómica da família e multimorbilidade com os tipos de famílias estudados no ficheiro de um médico de medicina geral e familiar. Materiais e Métodos: Estudo observacional transversal numa amostra aleatória representativa dos processos familiares de um médico de famíli...