a Hospital Federal de Bonsucesso, Serviço de Fisioterapia, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil b Hospital Universitário Gaffrèe e Guinle UNIRIO, Serviço de Fisioterapia, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil c Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Faculdade de Medicina, Instituto do Coração Edson Saad (Ices), Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil d Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Instituto Alberto Luiz Coimbra de P...

1 Universidade Federal do Paraná, Hospital de Clínicas, Programa de Residência Integrada Multiprofissional em Atenção Hospitalar, Programa em Atenção à Saúde do Adulto e do Idoso. Curitiba, PR, Brasil. 2 Universidade Federal do Paraná, Hospital de Clínicas, Serviço de Neurologia, Ambulatórios de Disfunção Cognitiva e de Neurogeriatria. Curitiba, PR, Brasil. 3 Universidade Federal do Paraná, Hos...

Treatment of phenylketonuria (PKU) includes the use of a metabolic formula which should be provided free of charge by the Unified Health System (SUS). This retrospective, observational study sought to characterize judicial channels to obtain PKU treatment in Rio Grande do Sul (RS), Brazil. Lawsuits filed between 2001- 2010 and having as beneficiaries PKU patients requesting treatment for the di...

Most elderly patients die with an order in place that they not be given cardiopulmonary resuscitation (DNR order). Surveys have shown that many elderly in different parts of the world want to be resuscitated, but may lack knowledge about the specifics of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). Data from countries other than the US is limited, but differences in physician and patient opinions by na...

Universals have traditionally thought to obey the identity of indiscernibles, that is, it has been there can be no perfectly similar universals. But at least in conception universals as immanent, is nothing rules out being indiscernible In this paper, I shall argue useful work do, and so might reason postulate particular, postulating allow a theory identify particulars with bundles universals, ...

Anscombe and Bratman both reject the Simple View, but many philosophers have thought that it holds the key to understanding intentional action.3 The Simple View raises a complex question: If intentional actions require intentions, then what do intentions require? In other words, what are the necessary conditions for intending to ? For simplicity, I will assume a standard belief-desire model acc...