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Burnout in the pharmaceutical activity: the impact of COVID-19
Santos, Pedro Machado dos; Silva, Cláudia Ribeiro da; Costa, Diana; Torre, CarlaImportance: Pharmacists are among the healthcare professionals involved in the response to the COVID-19 pandemic, maintaining essential services. In the context of restrictions and reorganization of human resources, as a result of policies recently applied to the health sector, following international guidelines, and given the scarcity of data on burnout in pharmaceutical activity, it was considered highly rele...
Intensive monitoring studies for assessing medicines : a systematic review
Torre, Carla; Cary, Maria; Borges, Fábio Cardoso; Ferreira, Paula S.; Alarcão, Joana; Leufkens, Hubert G.; Costa, João; Martins, Ana PaulaIntroduction: Intensive monitoring (IM) is one of the methods of post-marketing active surveillance based upon event monitoring, which has received interest in the current medicines regulatory landscape. For a specific period of time, IM involves primary data collection and is actively focused on gathering longitudinal information, mainly safety, since the first day of drug use. Objectives: To describe IM syste...
Intensive monitoring in Portugal : a pharmacy-based model to assess in real-lif...
Torre, CarlaChapter 1 introduces the drug life-cycle approach paradigm and emphasizes the need to get real-world data in order to meet this challenge. A systematic review to describe intensive monitoring (IM) systems’ scope in the real-world evidence generation data was presented in Chapter 2. Given that Portugal is one of the European countries with the highest uptake of the newly marketed glucose lowering drugs (GLD) (Ch...
Effectiveness of needle and syringe Programmes in people who inject drugs : an ...
Fernandes, Ricardo M.; Cary, Maria; Duarte, Gonçalo; Jesus, Gonçalo; Alarcão, Joana; Torre, Carla; Costa, Suzete; Costa, João; Carneiro, António VazBackground: Needle and syringe programmes (NSP) are a critical component of harm reduction interventions among people who inject drugs (PWID). Our primary objective was to summarize the evidence on the effectiveness of NSP for PWID in reducing blood-borne infection transmission and injecting risk behaviours (IRB). Methods: We conducted an overview of systematic reviews that included PWID (excluding prisons and ...
Investigação epidemiológica de toxinfeções alimentares na rede das Farmácias Po...
Torre, Carla; Brazão, Roberto; Guerreiro, José; Gomes, Marta; Costa, Suzete; Oliveira, Luísa; Viegas, Silvia[PT] As toxinfecções alimentares (TIAS) são um problema de saúde pública, com consequências graves nos idosos, crianças, grávidas e imunocomprometidos. Este estudo teve como objetivo avaliar a exequibilidade das farmácias enquanto fonte de informação de TIAS e dos seus fatores associados. O estudo transversal decorreu entre 18 de agosto e 15 de novembro de 2014. Dados sociodemográficos, sintomas, alimentos susp...
VACCINATION SERVICE IN THE PORTUGUESE PHARMACIES
Jacinto, Isabel Pimenta; Costa, Suzete; Horta, Maria Rute; Mendes, Zilda; Torre, Carla; Guerreiro, José Pedro; Queirós, Sónia IsabelCommunity Pharmacies’ legal framework (regulated by the decree-law nº 307/2007, 31st August) established the possibility of provision of pharmaceutical services to promote health and well-being by pharmacies. Due to its characteristics in terms of access and geographical distribution, pharmacies are health providers which can contribute to increase the immunization coverage with benefits in terms of public heal...
Epidemiologic Investigation of Foodborne Outbreaks in Pharmacies: A Pilot Study
Torre, Carla; Brazão, Roberto; Guerreiro, José; Gomes, Marta; Costa, Suzete; Oliveira, Luisa; Viegas, SilviaIntroduction: The analysis of Foodborne Outbreaks (FBO) investigation data provides knowledge on food vehicles and contributive factors of human infections allowing their risk management. However, FBO are commonly underreported and alternative sources of information may prove useful. Purpose: To test the adequacy of Pharmacies as an information source to identify foods involved in FBO, their confection type and...
Investigação epidemiológica de Toxinfeções Alimentares na Rede de Farmácias Por...
Torre, Carla; Brazão, Roberto; Guerreiro, José; Gomes, Marta; Costa, Suzete; Oliveira, Luísa; Viegas, SilviaIntrodução: As toxinfeções alimentares (TIAS) constituem um problema de saúde pública, podendo ser uma causa importante de morbilidade e mortalidade, com consequências mais graves nos idosos, crianças, grávidas e imunocomprometidos. A vigilância integrada de TIAS, com o envolvimento de agentes de saúde e autoridades de segurança alimentar, permite conhecer os veículos alimentares e fatores contributivos associa...
Rede Portuguesa sobre Informação Microbiológica de Alimentos (RPIMA): resultado...
Viegas, Silvia; Brazão, Roberto; Oliveira, Luísa; Torre, CarlaApresentação dos resultados de 2014 do Grupo de Trabalho Toxinfecções Alimentares (GTTA) - PortFIR. Resultados preliminares da aplicação de um inquérito nas farmácias comunitárias.
Perfil Terapêutico da Hipertensão na rede Médicos Sentinela : 12 Anos Depois
Souto, Diana; Simões, José Augusto; Torre, Carla; Mendes, Zilda; Falcão, Isabel Marinho; Ferreira, Fernando; Miranda, Ana da Costa; Dias, Carlos MatiasObjectives: To determine the treatment profile of hypertension in theQPortuguese sentinel practice network and compare the results 12 years after an initial study. Study design: Cross-sectional study Setting: Portuguese sentinel practice network Participants: Hypertensive patients over 18 years of age on the lists of general practitioners in the sentinel practice network who attended a consultation with their p...