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Characteristics of innovators adopting a national personal health record in Por...

Background: Personal health records (PHRs) are increasingly being deployed worldwide, but their rates of adoption by patients vary widely across countries and health systems. Five main categories of adopters are usually considered when evaluating the diffusion of innovations: innovators, early adopters, early majority, late majority, and laggards. Objective: We aimed to evaluate adoption of the Portuguese PHR 3...

"Consumer health information" : é hora da informação profissional

A saúde constitui um dos mercados mais dinâmicos da sociedade contemporânea. Como em qualquer outra relação de prestação de serviços ou fornecimento de bens temos em presença um consumidor e um prestador de serviços. Estes serviços poderão ter a forma de um produto ou de uma intervenção que, alegadamente, contribuirão para manter, melhorar ou restaurar a saúde do indivíduo. A saúde é um bem privado, mas existem...

Antimicrobial prescribing for urinary tract infection in primary health care

Objectives: The objectives of this study were to assess the prescription of antibiotics for urinary tract infection (UTI) in general practice, the degree of agreement with the Directorate General for Health guidelines for treatment of urinary tract infections in the community, to identify the infecting microorganisms, and to determine their susceptibility to antibiotics. Type of study: Cross-sectional study. Lo...

Trabalho em equipe na atenção primária : a experiência de Portugal

Objective. To analyze the work of health care teams delivering primary care in Portugal. Methods. We performed an evaluative research project, with a qualitative case study design. Data were obtained through semi-structured interviews, direct observation, and analysis of documents. We interviewed managers, workers, and users in 11 family health units (USF) in Portugal, for a total of 71 participants. Content an...

Acesso dos pacientes aos seus processos clínicos

Until recently, the medical record was seen exclusively as being the property of health institutions and doctors. Its great technical and scientific components, as well as the personal characteristics attributed by each doctor, have been the reasons appointed for that control. However, nowadays throughout the world that paradigm has been changing. In Portugal, since 2007 patients are allowed full and direct acc...

Novas orientações da Direção-Geral de Saúde para a diabetes gestacional : uma a...

As novas orientações técnicas da Direção-Geral de Saúde (DGS) para a diabetes gestacional (DG) alteram os procedimentos ligados ao rastreio, acompanhamento e terapêutica desta patologia. Discute-se a base científica das referidas normas e as suas implicações nos ganhos em saúde, custos, recursos de saúde e impacto na nova população de grávidas afetadas. O diagnóstico de DG baseado numa glicemia em jejum superio...

Prioritizing health care interventions : a multicriteria resource allocation mo...

Many countries, including Portugal, are currently dealing with budget cuts and a shortage of resources in the health sector, while the demand for health care services is increasing. The Group of Health Centres (GHC) of the Northen Lisbon faces the challenge of priortizing community care programmes in order to decide wich programmes to fund. We describe the development with the GHC of a Multi-criteria model to a...

Reforma da Saúde Familiar em Portugal : avaliação da implantação

Primary healthcare in Portugal is undergoing a major reform, of which family health units (FHU) are one of the more visible results. This study aimed to evaluate the FHU implementation process from 2006 onwards. Methods from a previous study of primary healthcare implementation in Brazil were used. Dimensions studied included comprehensiveness of care, organization of care, and the political-institutional persp...

Avaliações do internato médico de Medicina Geral e Familiar : necessidade de mu...

A especialidade de MGF apresenta um programa formativo estruturado, que culmina num processo avaliativo bem definido, à semelhança do que ocorre com as restantes especialidades médicas. A avaliação que leva à atribuição do título de especialista sofre, contudo, de uma série de problemas que exigem revisão crítica.

Rosuvastatina, LDL e PCR : novas perspectivas de intervenção em prevenção primá...