The study aimed to accomplish a cross-cultural adaptation of the "Diabetes - 39 - D-39" instrument for Brazil, to test the validity of the adapted version in a sample of type 2 diabetes mellitus patients and to describe the participants of the study, according to the scores obtained on the Likert-type sc...
Estudo exploratório com objetivo descrever a produção física e financeira dos procedimentos cirúrgicos, nas internações hospitalares remuneradas pela Secretaria Municipal de Saúde de Ribeirão Preto, segundo prestador, período 1996-2003. A coleta de dados utilizou a pesquisa documental em banco ...
This study aimed to assess factors associated to body temperature changes intraoperatively in patients undergoing elective surgery. A prospective study including 70 patients was carried out in a charity hospital. A data collection instrument was developed and its face and content validity was established...
This descriptive study aimed to investigate the prevalence of hypertension and its risk factors among undergraduate students in Lubango-Angola. The results obtained according to the health field model were: a) human biology: 61.3 percent were between 18 and 29 years old; prevalence of hypertension from 2...
This descriptive study aimed to describe Tuberculosis-related mortality in Brazil between 1980 and 2001, through time series analysis of data from the DATASUS related to cases in which Tuberculosis was the basic cause of death. The mortality rates were calculated per 100,000 inhabitants according to gend...
This cross-sectional study aimed to describe the spatial distribution of leprosy cases in Ribeirão Preto in 2004. The data collection was performed through compulsory notification records in the Epidemiological Surveillance Service of the Municipal Secretary of Health of Ribeirão Preto. The data were g...
The map's usage and the concerns about geographic distribution related with diseases are not a recent issue. A classical example is the John Snow survey -maps were used to locate cholera's cases and related them with the water supplying. The spatial representation techniques are fewer used in health sect...
A presente investigação teve como objetivo identificar os fatores predisponentes à infecção do sítio cirúrgico relacionados ao procedimento cirúrgico no paciente submetido à cirurgia eletiva de gastrectomia, potencialmente contaminada, na especialidade Gastrocirurgia, no período compreendido en...
Este estudo teve como objetivos traduzir e adaptar a "Burns Specific Pain Anxiety Scale - BSPAS" e a "Impact of Event Scale - IES" para a língua portuguesa, disponibilizar dois instrumentos simples, curtos e de fácil aplicação e descrever os participantes do estudo, segundo os escores obtidos por mei...
Este estudo estimou o custo médio direto total de alguns fatores produtivos (recursos materiais) como material de consumo, dietas, medicamentos e soluções utilizados por dois grupos de pacientes internados no Programa Interdisciplinar de Internação Domiciliar de Marília-SP. A amostra foi constituí...
