President's Page: The Continuing Importance of International Engagement

The Importance of Continuing Education.

Editorial La importancia de la educación continua alta calidad habilitados y acreditados, que brinden formación integral a todos sus egresados y las asociaciones científicas en establecer programas de educación continua a sus asociados. La Asociación Colombiana de Psiquiatría está a tiempo de hacerlo, cuenta con todos los insumos para esto, la virtualidad a través de su portal podría ser una fu...

Leaving Light Footprints – the Importance of Promoting Responsible International Travel

Irresponsible travel has the potential to harm both the traveler and the host destination. The subject of responsible travel is a major focus of the International Society of Travel Medicine, whose Responsible Travel special interest group has been very active in providing leadership for travel medicine practitioners in relation to the protection of local travel destination communities. Healthca...

The Importance of Patient Engagement

Patient engagement is related to patient behaviour, since what people do in their everyday lives largely determines their health and their subsequent need for healthcare. The influence of patient behaviour on health outcomes can be observed across the entire disease state from preventing illness to the management of long-term chronic health conditions. Patients who are more engaged in their hea...

President’s Page: The Importance of the Cardiologist

The Importance of Continuing Local Bacterial Surveillance

To the Editor—We appreciate the insightful comments by Vandijck et al regarding our article on the cost of methicillinresistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bloodstream infections. We included variables in the propensity score that are clinically important even if they were not statistically significant, as recommended in statistics textbooks. We decided to use only hospital data because prehos...