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Attitudes and practices of physiotherapists towards goal-setting for stroke reh...

Funding Information: This project is funded by national funds through FCT-Funda\u00E7\u00E3o para a Ci\u00EAncia e Tecnologia, I. P. under the PhD grant 2021.05310.BD awarded to the first author. Publisher Copyright: © 2025 The Authors; Goal-setting in stroke rehabilitation is poorly understood. This study examined attitudes, practices, and factors related to goal-setting in stroke rehabilitation among Portugue...

COVID-19 surveillance

Funding Information: The present publication was funded by Fundação Ciência e Tecnologia, IP national support through CHRC (UIDP/04923/2020). Publisher Copyright: Copyright © 2023 Ricoca Peixoto, Vieira, Aguiar, Sentis, Carvalho, Rhys Thomas, Abrantes and Nunes.; Introduction: In Portugal, COVID-19 laboratory notifications, clinical notifications (CNs), and epidemiological investigation questionnaires (EI) were...

Difference in determinants of ICU admission and death among COVID-19 hospitaliz...

Copyright © 2023 Ricoca Peixoto, Vieira, Aguiar, Carvalho, Thomas, Sousa, Nunes and Abrantes.; AIM: Identify factors associated with COVID-19 intensive care unit (ICU) admission and death among hospitalized cases in Portugal, and variations from the first to the second wave in Portugal, March-December 2020. INTRODUCTION: Determinants of ICU admission and death for COVID-19 need further understanding and may cha...

Excess mortality since COVID-19

Determinants for hospitalisations, intensive care unit admission and death amon...

Publisher Copyright: © 2021 European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC). All rights reserved.; Background: Determinants of hospitalisation, intensive care unit (ICU) admission and death are still unclear for COVID-19. Few studies have adjusted for confounding for different clinical outcomes including all reported cases within a country. Aim: We used routine surveillance data from Portugal to ident...

Predicting independence 6 and 18 months after ischemic stroke considering diffe...

Publisher Copyright: © 2021 André Vieira et al.; Objectives. This study is aimed at identifying the best clinical model to predict poststroke independence at 6 and 18 months, considering sociodemographic and clinical characteristics, and then identifying differences between countries. Methods. Data was retrieved from the International Stroke Trial 3 study. Nine clinical variables (age, gender, severity, rt-PA, ...

Years of life lost by COVID-19 in Portugal and comparison with other European c...

Funding Information: The present publication was funded by NOVA National School of Public Health and Fundação Ciência e Tecnologia, IP national support through CHRC (UIDP/04923/2020). Publisher Copyright: © 2021, The Author(s).; Background: The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has been measured in different metrics, mostly by counting deaths and its impact on health services. Few studies have attempted to calcul...

Excess non-COVID-19 mortality in Portugal

Avaliação inicial do impacto das medidas de confinamento do estado de emergênci...

Introduction: Portugal took early action to control the COVID-19 epidemic, initiating lockdown measures on March 16th when it recorded only 62 cases of COVID-19 per million inhabitants and reported no deaths. The Portuguese public complied quickly, reducing their overall mobility by 80%. The aim of this study was to estimate the initial impact of the lockdown in Portugal in terms of the reduction of the burden ...

Rapid estimation of excess mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic in Portugal

© 2020 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press International B.V.; BACKGROUND: One month after the first COVID-19 infection was recorded, Portugal counted 18,051 cases and 599 deaths from COVID-19. To understand the overall impact on mortality of the pandemic of COVID-19, we estimated the excess mortality registered in Portugal during the first month of the epidemic, from March 16 until April 14 using two diff...