Funding Information: This study was funded by Fundação Ciência e Tecnologia, IP national support through CHRC (UIDP/04923/2020). Publisher Copyright: Copyright © 2023 Azevedo, Neto, Gama, Subtil, Fuertes, Pereira, Tavares, Medinas, Silva and Dias.; Introduction: Alcohol-related problems disproportionally affect people experiencing homelessness. As the first wave of the COVID-2019 pandemic spread in 2020, a numb...
Funding Information: We would like to thank everyone who contributed to the study, namely the teams of participating hospitals who helped us to collect data: Centro Hospitalar Tâmega e Sousa (CHTS) – Maria da Anunciação Ruivo, MD; Centro Hospitalar Entre o Douro e Vouga (CHEDV) – Cristina Portal, MD; Centro Hospitalar de Vila Nova de Gaia e Espinho (CHVNG/E) – Fátima Lima, MD; Unidade Local de Saúde do Nordeste...
(1) Background: We aim to identify clinical and laboratorial parameters to distinguish Kingella kingae from pyogenic septic arthritis (SA). (2) Methods: A longitudinal, observational, single-centre study of children < 5 years old with microbiological positive SA admitted to a paediatric hospital from 2013-2020 was performed. Clinical and laboratorial data at admission and at 48 h, as well as on treatment and ev...
Sample size calculation in biomedical practice is typically based on the problematicWald method for a binomial proportion, with potentially dangerous consequences. This work highlights the need of incorporating the concept of conditional probability in sample size determination to avoid reduced sample sizes that lead to inadequate confidence intervals. Therefore, new definitions are proposed for coverage probab...