OBJECTIVE The objective of this study is to contextualize adolescent pregnancy from milestones associated with the process of transition from youth to adulthood. METHODS This is a cross-sectional study conducted with 200 adolescents, users of the Brazilian Unified Health System. The sample size for the estimation of proportions has been calculated assuming a population ratio of 0.50 and 95% c...

São Paulo, noite chuvosa de domingo, meados de julho. SNF, divorciado, voltava da festa de aniversário da filha de 5 anos, Maya. De motocicleta, seu meio de transporte e instrumento de trabalho, e que acabara de adquirir, aproveitando a facilidade de linha de crédito vigente para o financiamento. Afinal, gastava quase 4 horas durante a semana para ir e vir do trabalho e nos finais de semana em ...

Do-not-resuscitate (DNR) orders in the perioperative environment must be managed according to national and institutional guidelines. Health care professionals, including perioperative nurses, may be unfamiliar with the guidelines and unsure of their role in reevaluating a DNR order. We conducted a multidisciplinary quality improvement project at a metropolitan community hospital that aimed to i...

A trombose de stent (TS) é uma grande preocupação na era dos stents farmacológicos (SF). Há vários relatos de trombose de stent até cinco anos após sua implantação. Relatamos o caso de uma paciente de 68 anos com TS tardia, que se apresentou como infarto agudo do miocárdio com supradesnivelamento do segmento ST (IAMCSST) após interrupção da terapia antiplaquetária, oito anos depois da implantaç...

OBJECTIVES To determine the level of awareness of outpatients, their preferences regarding the appropriate time for discussions regarding do-not-resuscitate (DNR) order  in Saudi Arabia. Methods: This cross-sectional, self-administered survey was conducted at King Fahd Medical City, a tertiary care hospital in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia between December 2012 and January 2013. Demographic parameters o...

This paper presents work done at Medical Minner Project on the TREC-2011 Medical Records Track. The paper proposes four models for medical information retrieval based on Lucene index approach. Our retrieval engine used an Lucen Index scheme with traditional stopping and stemming, enhanced with entity recognition software on query terms. Our aim in this rst competition is to set a broader projec...

The growing geriatric population in this country makes it increasingly difficult to deal with the number of do-not-resuscitate (DNR) orders. In part, this is due to an increase in the number of elderly undergoing anesthesia and surgery. It can also be attributed to a rise in complex legal, ethical, and moral issues these orders pose for the healthcare professional caring for the DNR patients, i...

Background—Practising the martial art of taekwon-do (TKD) has been proposed to have beneficial eVects on cardiovascular fitness as well as general physical ability. Furthermore, TKD masters and participants have promoted TKD as a total fitness programme. Research studies substantiating this, however, seem to be lacking, perhaps because TKD is recognised more as a method of self defence than a f...

Efficient modeling of uncertain information in real world is still an open issue. Dempster-Shafer evidence theory is one of the most commonly used methods. However, the Dempster-Shafer evidence theory has the assumption that the hypothesis in the framework of discernment is exclusive of each other. This condition can be violated in real applications, especially in linguistic decision making sin...