Publications by authors named "Carlos Rodrigues da Silva Filho"
Objective: To describe the general characteristics of nursing professionals and assess the influence of overcommitment on perceived climacteric symptoms and on the quality of life of nursing professionals.
Method: A cross-sectional, analytical study of 152 nursing auxiliaries and assistants aged 40 years or older was conducted at 3 hospitals in the interior of São Paulo state. Sociodemographic data were collected and the Blatt-Kupperman Menopausal Index, Women´s Health Questionnaire, Medical Outcome Study 36-item Short Form Health Survey and Effort-Reward Imbalance were applied in 2017.
Introduction: Hemodialysis is responsible for significant alterations in the quality of life of chronic renal patients.
Objective: To compare the quality of life of patients on hemodialysis without depression (A) and those with some level of depression (B).
Methods: This was a transversal and descriptive study in which the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) and the WHOQOL-bref scale were used.
Background: Meningococcal polysaccharide (MPLS) vaccines protect against Serogroup C disease, but do not produce an immune response in infants less than two years of age. This limitation can be overcome by linking C polysaccharide to carrier proteins ('conjugating'), to create meningococcal serogroup C conjugate (MCC) vaccines. In the absence of trial data, the immune response to vaccination has been considered to be a reasonable surrogate for vaccine protection.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To implement community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) guidelines at a public hospital in Brazil and to evaluate the impact of these guidelines on health care quality.
Methods: A quasi-experimental study, with a before-and-after design, involving adult patients diagnosed with CAP and hospitalized between July of 2007 and October of 2008 in the general ward of the Marília School of Medicine Hospital das Clínicas, located in the city of Marília, Brazil.
Results: During the study period, 68 patients were diagnosed with CAP: 48 before the implementation of the guidelines and 20 after their implementation.
Background: Chronic osteomyelitis is generally treated with antibiotics and surgical debridement but can persist intermittently for years with frequent therapeutic failure. Despite advances in both antibiotics and surgical treatment, the long-term recurrence rate remains at approximately 20% to 30%.
Objectives: To determine the effects of different systemic antibiotic treatment regimens for treating chronic osteomyelitis in adults.
Objective: To evaluate whether different quality assessment tools applied to a group of clinical trials could be correlated, and what would be their impact on meta-analysis results.
Methods: Thirty-eight randomized controlled clinical trials were analyzed. These had been selected for a systematic review of the therapeutic efficacy of alpha interferon for treating chronic hepatitis B.
Objective: To evaluate the reliability and validity of the Portuguese version of the Women's Health Questionnaire.
Methods: In order to evaluate the Women's Health Questionnaire (WHQ), an analytical cross-sectional study was carried out at the women's menopause outpatient clinic of a university hospital in São Paulo, Brazil. There were studied 87 women in perimenopause or menopause, defined as experiencing at least one year's absence of menstrual flow.
Background: Aiming to evaluate the acquisition of skills on Medical Ethics among medical students from Marilia Medical School, some of them from the small group learning-teaching method, others from traditional teaching method.
Methods: A prospective analytical study was done based on the application of questionnaires about general themes on Ethics, at two different times.
Results: There weren't significant differences on the skills' acquisition between the two methods.