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Filter by:By hospital mortality, the health of a population is identified. Death certificates are a valuable tool in establishing causes of death. The objective will be to analyze the main causes of death in hospitalized patients by population groups of interest. A retrospective observational study will be carried out, by analyzing the death databases of the Hospital Departamental of Villavicencio from January 2012 to May 2022. The records will be exported to Excel for review and debugging. Demographic variables and causes of death will be analyzed. The categorical variables will be described in frequency and proportion; the quantitative ones will be defined in their central distribution and dispersion. For comparison, the Chi-square and Mann-Whitney test will be performed according to the characteristics of the outcome studied. It is expected to identify the main causes of death in the groups of interest (adults, maternal, infants, fetal and non-fetal, congenital malformations) and their characteristics.
In a controlled pragmatic multicenter primary care study, centers working according to a newly constructed structured framework for assessment of rehabilitation and sicklisting (STARS) will be investigated. Nine intervention centers working according to STARS will be compared to matched control centers not working according to STARS. The design of this study includes qualitative as well as quantitative measures, with the aim to evaluate the effects of STARS at patient, staff, and organization levels.
This is a community-based, prospective longitudinal epidemiologic study. Our objective is to establish a natural population-based cohort in Shanghai, China based on the latest scientific researches, preliminary findings of the project team, and a close cooperation model of the Specialist Medical Consortium. We will focus on the information and management of health status of the general population of all ages (from birth to older age). We plan to integrate the questionnaire data and sample database information into the public health information platform, in order to establish a whole health management system across the lifespan in Chinese Natural Population.
The aim of this study is to measure the experiences about the current care of the patients, their kin and staff by a quickscan based on a multidimensional quality model. Further more we want to define the psychometric characteristics of the quickscan.
There is a lot of discussion concerning the normal cut-off points of skeletal mass among different populations worldwide. Genetic and environmental differences most probably lead to different measurements. Defining muscle mass in healthy young adults in Greece will provide information that can be used to determine normal ranges of muscle mass of both sexes and consequently define sarcopenia. The aim of the study is to define appendicular skeletal muscle mass reference measurements in healthy young adults in Greece. These values can be used to determine sarcopenia cut-offs according to recommendations.
Successful treatment of hepatitis C has been reported to be associated with 62-84% reduction in all-cause mortality (deaths), 68-79% reduction in risk of HCC and 90% reduction in risk of liver transplantation. The efficacy of NS5A inhibitors for the treatment of patients chronically infected with hepatitis C virus (HCV) can be affected by the presence of NS5A resistance-associated substitutions (RASs). Pre-existence of resistance associated substitutions (RASs) to direct antiviral agents (DAAs) reduces sustained virologic response (SVR) rates by 3-53% in hepatitis C virus (HCV) genotype 3 infected patients depending on different predictors and the DAA regimen used. This study will prospectively analyze data from the MukhMantri Punjab Hepatitis C Relief Fund (MMPHCRF) to determine the posttreatment prevalence of various NS5A RASs, and their effect on outcomes of treatment with daclatasvir-sofosbuvir or sofosbuvir-ledipasvirin patients with chronic HCV. The study aims to assess the prevalence and effect of RASs on sustained virological response (SVR) rates in patients with treatment failure to a regimen containing sofosbuvir and ledipasvir/daclatasvir.
The main goals of this project are to support the research training of undergraduate medical students at the University de Sherbrooke and promote planning of health services a better knowledge of the prevalence, social, and geographic distribution of public health issues in several regions in Quebec. To meet the objectives of the project, a population-based prospective study linked to several regions in Quebec public health surveys is proposed. Monitoring and data collection will be provided by 3rd year undergraduate medical students at University de Sherbrooke through telephone interviews. The research themes will be proposed by various researchers affiliated with the University de Sherbrooke. They will be selected yearly by an internal scientific committee and included in the questionnaires administered by the students.