Medical and Biomedical Researches

[Nursing care in fluorescein angiography.]

June 28th, 2008
[Nursing care in fluorescein angiography.] Fluoresceinic angiography of the ocular fundus is a diagnostic technique to study retinal and choroidal circulation. This technique consists of parenteral administration of 500 mg of sodium fluorescein 10% and photographing the fluorescence in the eye vessels. Although this substance is ...

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[Approach to the patient in the ambulatory surgery unit.]

June 28th, 2008
[Approach to the patient in the ambulatory surgery unit.] Ambulatory surgery aims to improve the quality of care, provide services in an environment closer to users\' normal surroundings, reduce the risk of nosocomial infection and release hospital beds for other uses demanded by the population, thus ...

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[Spanish National Plan for Scientific Research, Development and Innovation 2008-2011: an opportunity

June 28th, 2008
[Spanish National Plan for Scientific Research, Development and Innovation 2008-2011: an opportunity for healthcare research.] Research in health sciences is a core element for success in any strategy aiming to improve health in today\'s society. The search for a safe, effective and efficient healthcare, that guarantees ...

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[Sociocultural and healthcare factors influencing the choice and duration of breast feeding in a reg

June 28th, 2008
[Sociocultural and healthcare factors influencing the choice and duration of breast feeding in a regional hospital.] OBJECTIVES: To determine the prevalence of breastfeeding in the health area of Salnés Hospital (Vilagarcía, Pontevedra, Spain) and the influence of social and healthcare factors on the initiation and duration ...

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[Association between occupational satisfaction and perceived general health in emergency nurses.]

June 28th, 2008
[Association between occupational satisfaction and perceived general health in emergency nurses.] OBJECTIVE: To assess occupational satisfaction and perceived general health in a sample of emergency nurses. METHOD: We performed a cross-sectional study in nursing staff of the Hospital Morales Meseguer emergency service. A survey of sociodemographic ...

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[Socioprofessional variables involved in mobbing in nursing.]

June 28th, 2008
[Socioprofessional variables involved in mobbing in nursing.] OBJECTIVE: To determine the type, frequency and cause of the most frequent hostile behaviors in a sample of nurses in the Balearic Islands and the socio-professional variables involved. METHOD: We performed a cross-sectional descriptive study. The sample was composed ...

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[Pharmacological treatment adherence by older patients after hospital discharge.]

June 28th, 2008
[Pharmacological treatment adherence by older patients after hospital discharge.] Little information is available on drug adherence in older patients after discharge or on predictors of non-adherence. OBJECTIVES: To determine the rate of treatment adherence and associated factors in elderly patients after hospital discharge with a view ...

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[Knowledge and attitudes of the population about the living wills.]

June 28th, 2008
[Knowledge and attitudes of the population about the living wills.] OBJECTIVE: To evaluate knowledge of living wills and attitudes to these documents in the populations of two basic health areas in Toledo (Spain). METHOD: We performed a descriptive, cross-sectional study in primary care centers. Participants consisted ...

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[Investigation of an outbreak of acute respiratory illness due to exposure to chlorine gas in a publ

June 28th, 2008
[Investigation of an outbreak of acute respiratory illness due to exposure to chlorine gas in a public swimming pool.] A case-control study was designed to investigate a chemical accident that occurred in a swimming-pool in the summer of 2005. The aim was to describe the environmental ...

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[Human rights, an opportunity for public policies in health.]

June 28th, 2008
[Human rights, an opportunity for public policies in health.] Human rights outlined a better scenario for public policies in health. For it requires intersectoral and interdisciplinary approach. This article emphasizes the perspective of public health policies based on human rights, clarifies the relationship of public policies ...

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[Processes maps in public health organizations: the experience of the Galician Department of Public

June 28th, 2008
[Processes maps in public health organizations: the experience of the Galician Department of Public Health.] To design the processes map of the Galician Department of Public Health, we performed document reviews, held meetings and interviewed persons in charge of programs and departments to identify the processes ...

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[Innovating the service management of public health: the experience of the Barcelona Public Health A

June 28th, 2008
[Innovating the service management of public health: the experience of the Barcelona Public Health Agency (Spain).] We describe the evolution of the organization of public health services in the city of Barcelona (Catalonia, Spain) until the creation of the Barcelona Public Health Agency. This Agency is ...

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[Studies conducted in Spain on concentrations in humans of persistent toxic compounds.]

June 28th, 2008
[Studies conducted in Spain on concentrations in humans of persistent toxic compounds.] No systematic review is available on studies conducted in Spain on human concentrations of persistent toxic substances (PTS). The objectives were: to identify studies conducted in Spain in the past 30 years that determined ...

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Systematic review of the prevalence of gastric intestinal metaplasia and its area-level association

June 28th, 2008
Systematic review of the prevalence of gastric intestinal metaplasia and its area-level association with smoking. OBJECTIVES: We aimed to show an area-level association between the frequency of intestinal metaplasia (IM) in Helicobacter pylori-infected patients and tobacco consumption. METHODS: We systematically reviewed the literature to retrieve data ...

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[Mortality due to intimate partner violence in foreign women living in Spain (1999-2006).]

June 28th, 2008
[Mortality due to intimate partner violence in foreign women living in Spain (1999-2006).] OBJECTIVES: To describe the distribution of mortality due to intimate partner violence (IPV) in foreign women living in Spain and to explore the potentially greater risk of dying from IPV in this group. ...

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[Presence of current child and adolescent health priorities in school textbooks.]

June 28th, 2008
[Presence of current child and adolescent health priorities in school textbooks.] BACKGROUND: Textbooks are an educational tool for learning health habits. The aim of this study was to determine how these textbooks present the health priorities defined by health organizations to children and teenagers. METHOD: We ...

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[Impact of a capitation payment system on healthcare coordination.]

June 28th, 2008
[Impact of a capitation payment system on healthcare coordination.] OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the impact of the catalan pilot project of capitation payment on healthcare coordination from a qualitative perspective. METHODS: An exploratory, descriptive, qualitative study was carried out by means of document analysis and individual interviews. ...

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[Patient satisfaction in 4 hospitals of the Basque Health Service.]

June 28th, 2008
[Patient satisfaction in 4 hospitals of the Basque Health Service.] OBJECTIVES: To compare patient satisfaction in 4 acute hospitals. METHODS: The sample was composed of individuals admitted to 4 hospitals in the Basque Health Service (Osakidetza, Spain) in January and February 2002. Six hundred and fifty ...

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[Avoidable mortality. Changes in the new century?]

June 28th, 2008
[Avoidable mortality. Changes in the new century?] OBJECTIVES: To analyze time trends and the geographical distribution of avoidable mortality in the autonomous community of Valencia and its health departments by sex in the periods 1990-1994, 1995-1999, and 2000-2004. MATERIAL AND METHOD: Twenty-one causes of avoidable mortality ...

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[State of public pneumology in Catalonia (Spain): 1993 versus 2003.]

June 28th, 2008
[State of public pneumology in Catalonia (Spain): 1993 versus 2003.] The aim of this study was to perform a descriptive analysis of the state of public pneumology in Catalonia (Spain) in 2003 and to compare the results with data from 1993. A questionnaire was sent to ...

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Cancer incidence in Gipuzkoa, Spain (1998-2002), and time trends from 1986.

June 28th, 2008
Cancer incidence in Gipuzkoa, Spain (1998-2002), and time trends from 1986. OBJECTIVES: To determine the cancer incidence in Gipuzkoa (Spain) from 1998 to 2002 and describe time trends since 1986. METHODS: The annual incidence of cancer in Gipuzkoa from 1998 to 2002 was estimated as a ...

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[Constructing a deprivation index based on census data in large Spanish cities(the MEDEA project).]

June 28th, 2008
[Constructing a deprivation index based on census data in large Spanish cities(the MEDEA project).] OBJECTIVES: a) To describe the methodology used to construct a deprivation index by census tract in cities, to identify the tracts with the least favorable socioeconomic conditions, and b) to analyze the ...

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[Apolipoprotein A5 gene: association with triglyceride metabolism and cardiovascular disease.]

June 28th, 2008
[Apolipoprotein A5 gene: association with triglyceride metabolism and cardiovascular disease.] Hypertriglyceridemia constitutes an independent risk factor for coronary disease. The gene apolipoprotein A5 (ApoA5) is a newly discovered member in the ApoA1/C3/A4/A5 cluster, and its product, apolipoprotein A5, influences on triglycerides through an unknown mechanism. Recently, ...

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[Effects of simvastatin on acute-phase protein levels after cardiac surgery.]

June 28th, 2008
[Effects of simvastatin on acute-phase protein levels after cardiac surgery.] BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: There is contradictory evidence as to whether the pleiotropic effects of statins improve morbidity/mortality rates in coronary artery bypass grafting with extracorporeal circulation, as they reduce the protein plasma levels in the acute ...

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[Irritable bowel syndrome and cardiac right-to-left shunt through a patent foramen oval.]

June 28th, 2008
[Irritable bowel syndrome and cardiac right-to-left shunt through a patent foramen oval.] BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Both irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and patent foramen ovale (PFO) have a similar prevalence in the general population, affect more commonly women and are related to comorbidities such as migraine. In ...

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