Objective: To develop and evaluate the reliability of a self-administered questionnaire designed to assess the attitudes and knowledge of community pharmacists in Portugal about microbial resistance and the antibiotic dispensing process. Methods: This study was divided into the following three stages: (1) design of the questionnaire, which included a literature review and a qualitative study with focus-group se...
Pharmacovigilance systems are important to monitor the safety of on-market drugs after approval. The aim of this study was to assess the impact of rosiglitazone safety alerts on trends in the sale of rosiglitazone and other oral antidiabetic drugs. An ecological study was conducted, using temporally aggregated data and linking safety alerts to countrywide sales of all oral antidiabetic drugs in Portugal from Ja...
Background: Antibiotic resistance is a worldwide public health problem, leading to longer hospital stays, raising medical costs and mortality levels. As physicians' attitudes are key factors to antibiotic prescribing, this study sought to explore their differences between primary care and hospital settings. Methods: A survey was conducted between September 2011 and February 2012 in the center region of Portugal...
Background: Age-related comorbidities prone older adults to polypharmacy and to an increased risk of potentially inappropriate medication (PIM) use. This work aims to analyze the concordance and overlap among the EU(7)-PIM list, 2019 Beers criteria, and Screening Tool of Older Person's Prescriptions (STOPP) version 2 criteria and also to analyze the prevalence of PIM. Methods: A retrospective cohort study was c...
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Background: The data from individual observational studies included in meta-analyses of drug effects are collected either from ad hoc methods (i.e. "primary data") or databases that were established for non-research purposes (i.e. "secondary data"). The use of secondary sources may be prone to measurement bias and confounding due to over-the-counter and out-of-pocket drug consumption, or non-adherence to treatm...
Introduction Antibiotic resistance is a well-known public health problem. Many studies indicate that there is an overuse in the hospital setting, and that is responsible for the threat of bacterial resistances. Pharmacists play an important role in implementation of guidelines in hospital, and their proactive attitude related to antibiotic use and bacterial resistances could improve antibiotic use in hospitals....
Se parece haver indícios de que a Saúde Mental ganhou alguma relevância nos últimos anos, o mesmo não pode ser dito quando se analisam as Políticas Públicas, nesta matéria, entre o XI Governo ao XXI Governo Constitucionais (período entre 1987-2019). Se não fosse a atual situação pandémica, esta área da saúde não teria tido a mesma relevância para o Estado, sendo expetável a ausência de medidas e de Políticas Pú...
O estágio realizado no Museu Regional da Guarda (MRG), decorreu na área do Secretariado, em Relações Públicas e Comunicação. Como estagiária, tive a oportunidade de desenvolver diversas atividades como: trabalhar ao lado de pessoas da área, onde cada informação que nos é transmitida deve ser encarada como um ensinamento, visitas guiadas, fazer algumas atividades de entretenimento, trabalho de receção, transport...
Este relatório de estágio apresenta-se como uma das exigências inerentes à unidade curricular Estágio, pertencente ao curso de Comunicação e Relações Públicas da Escola Superior de Educação Comunicação e Desporto do Instituto Politécnico da Guarda e resulta, fundamentalmente, numa descrição e reflexão exaustiva e cuidada de todo o percurso prático e formativo, em contexto real de trabalho, e todas as aprendizag...