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Challenges associated with insulin therapy progression among patients with type 2 diabetes: Latin American MOSAIc study baseline data
(BioMed Central Ltd., 2016-07)
Poor glycemic control in patients with type 2 diabetes is commonly recorded worldwide; Latin America (LA) is not an exception. Barriers to intensifying insulin therapy and which barriers are most likely to negatively impact ...
Hospital Volume and Mortality of Very Low-Birthweight Infants in South America
(Wiley Blackwell Publishing, Inc, 2012-08)
Objective To assess the effects of hospital volume of very low-birthweight (VLBW) infants on in-hospital mortality of VLBW and very preterm birth (VPB) infants in South America. Data Sources/Study Setting Birth-registry ...
Big data in the ICU: Experience in the Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires
(IOS Press, 2017-08)
Intensive care represents the critical care setting of a hospital, where fundamental, precise, and fast decisions have to be made. These decisions will affect the outcome of the patients in a matter of few hours. The ...
Self-medication in patients seeking care in a dental emergency service
(ImageGraf, 2018-08)
The aims of this work were: To determine what percentage of firsttime patients to the Dental Emergency Department at the School of Dentistry of Buenos Aires University had taken medications to relieve or treat their ...
Identifying causal relationships between EEG activity and intracranial pressure changes in neurocritical care patients
(IOP Publishing, 2018-12)
Objective. To explore and assess the relationship between electroencephalography (EEG) activity and intracranial pressure (ICP) in patients suffering from traumatic brain injury (TBI) and subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) ...
Transformational improvement in quality care and health systems: The next decade
(BioMed Central, 2020-12)
Background: Healthcare is amongst the most complex of human systems. Coordinating activities and integrating newer with older ways of treating patients while delivering high-quality, safe care, is challenging. Three landmark ...
Accuracy of prehospital point-of-care lactate in early in-hospital mortality
(Wiley Blackwell Publishing, Inc, 2020-07)
Background: Emergency medical services (EMS) routinely face complex scenarios where decisions should be taken with limited clinical information. The development of fast, reliable and easy to perform warning biomarkers could ...
Understanding patient and relative/carer experience of hip fracture in acute care: A qualitative study protocol
(Elsevier, 2017-05)
Background: This paper presents a qualitative study protocol focusing on older peoples’ experience of recovery in acute care following hip fracture and also the experiences of their family or informal carers. There is ...
Breve encuesta de calidad de atención a los usuarios de un departamento de medicina de un hospital pediátrico
(Línea Gráfica Grupo Impresor, 2018-04)
Introducción: Conocer la calidad con que se brinda la atención médica como primer paso para mejorar su prestación debería ser considerado parte de cada acto médico. El objetivo de esta iniciativa fue evaluar el grado de ...
The need for standardized reporting of research findings in the field of quality of care
(Oxford University Press, 2021-03)
The fields of healthcare quality and patient safety are not immune to the concerns being expressed across several disciplines about the lack of transparency and reproducibility of research. The use of reporting guidelines ...