Health Sciences

This review examines the quality of health care with a specific focus on patient safety strategies. Health care quality is defined by multiple dimensions, including effectiveness, efficiency, equity, patient-centeredness, timeliness, and safety. Patient safety is a critical component, involving the prevention of errors and adverse effects associated with health care. This article synthesizes current literature to identify key factors influencing health care quality and evaluates successful patient safety strategies implemented across various health care settings.

The study aimed to compare the knowledge, attitudes, and practices of doctors and medical students about stethoscope hygiene and investigate the microbial load and prevalence of MRSA on stethoscopes. This cross-sectional, experimental study surveyed 100 participants, including 50 doctors and 50 medical students, and used microbiological tests to determine the microbial load and presence of MRSA on the stethoscopes. The results showed that medical students had a significantly higher median bacterial load than doctors, and 8 stethoscopes were contaminated with MRSA.

Biometrics are becoming essential and have been recommended as a technological method for identification due to its ability to provide unique verification of a person. Biometrics use physiological characteristics of the human’s body which were chosen because they usually do not change over a lifetime and cannot be duplicated or forgotten. Different biometrics technologies have proven to be applicable to solve the problems of duplicated patients’ records and assure a correct identity.

Introduction: The immune checkpoint HLA-G molecule is highly expressed in the placenta’s extravillous trophoblast cells and has a pivotal role in immune tolerance during pregnancy. Since HIV-1 can infect trophoblast cells and may modify HLA-G expression to subvert host immune defenses, in this study we evaluated the HLA-G expression in third-trimester placental tissue of women living or not with HIV-1.

Background: Perforated peptic ulcer (PPU) is associated with significant morbidity and mortality, particularly in low to middle income countries. This study aimed to scrutinisethe clinicalcourse of patients diagnosed with PPU and identify modifiable factors to improve outcomes. Methods: A retrospective review of thehybrid electronic medical record (HEMR) database at Grey’s Hospital was performed.

O presente estudo tem como objetivo principal demonstrar as literaturas disponíveis acerca das orientações sobre as modificações fisiológicas que ocorrem no organismo durante a gravidez. Além disso, tem como objetivo secundário auxiliar futuros estudos sobre a temática proposta. Trata-se de uma revisão integrativa da literatura, utilizando a metodologia qualitativa. Por meio da pesquisa nas bases de dados, foram encontrados 684 quando não aplicado os critérios de inclusão, obtendo apenas 3 trabalhos ao final da pesquisa.

Diante da importância do tema e do risco de complicações ainda mais graves, buscou-se reunir informações com o propósito de responder ao seguinte problema de pesquisa: Como a disfunção motora oral e a disfagia podem influenciar na qualidade de vida e no prognóstico dos recém nascidos?. Trata-se de uma revisão sistemática da literatura, com a finalidade de sistematizar o conhecimento sobre o tema pela reunião dos principais dados disponíveis na literatura.

O marco legal da inovação e o reconhecimento do direito ao desenvolvimento como direito fundamental possibilitam uma mudança na concepção das políticas públicas a serem implementadas pelo ordenamento jurídico brasileiro. O Poder Judiciário, por sua vez, através do Conselho Nacional de Justiça tem adotado medidas e projetos no sentido de impulsionar a adoção da inovação pelos tribunais, tornando esse processo contínuo nos órgãos judiciários, promovendo mudanças para que possam prestar serviços à Sociedade 5.0.

The objective of this study is to identify the frequency of osteoarticular deformities in the feet and their association with the risk for ulceration and reulceration in people with diabetes mellitus. This is a cross-sectional study carried out among individuals under monitoring at the State Reference Center for Diabetes Care and Endocrinology of Bahia, from November 2006 to February 2018.

Background: Approximately every fourth patients with acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (AECOPD) will require intensive care unit (ICU) admission with further mechanical ventilation (MV) and therefore with high risk for development ventilator- associated pneumonia (VAP). Aim: The study was aimed to learn risk factors predicting in-hospital mortality among patients with AE COPD associated with VAP and to evaluate the modifiable risk factors in term on improvement of patient outcomes.