Cold bed: A challenge for an academic medical center in San Luis Potosi, Mexico.

Objective: The objective of this study was to identify the time period during which a hospital bed could be virtually available according to the informatics and administrative hospital system while still being physically occupied by a patient in a hospital in Mexico.

Materials And Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted in a 250-bed Academic Medical Center located in Central Northern Mexico during February 2015. Both administrative and real patient discharges were registered in a hospital format.

[Knowledge and attitudes of teachers at a Medical School and the use of clinical practice guidelines].

Introduction: The National Center for Health Technology Excellence (CENETEC) has published 539 clinical practice guidelines (CPG) whose area of influence is nationwide.

Objective: To conduct an assessment of the knowledge and attitudes of teachers at a medical school and the use of CPGs.

Materials And Methods: We performed a cross-sectional study in 2012 among teachers at one medical school in San Luis Potosí, Mexico.

[Risk factors for students desertion from the UASLP School of Medicine, México].

Objective: To obtain the profile of students that deserted from the Faculty of Medicine of the Autonomous University of San Luis Potosi, México.

Design: Cases and controls nested in a cohort.

Methods: All students that voluntarily deserted between 1992 and 2002 were consulted.

[Latin America: clinical responses to the antipsychotic drugs].

Objective: To compare the effectiveness of a 12 months antipsychotic monotherapy treatment with Olanzapine, risperidone and an atypical antipsychotic drug in Latin American patients with schizophrenia.

Method: The outcomes of effectiveness and tolerability were evaluated in outpatients with schizophrenia belonging to a large sample (N=7658) in a prospective, international trial carried out in 27 countries. The results for the population of Latin America were presented.