Information and Communication Technologies for Managing Frailty: A Systematic Literature Review.

Frailty is a prevalent condition among Canadians; over one million are diagnosed as medically frail, and in the next ten years this number will double. Information and telecommunication technologies can provide a low-cost method for managing frailty more proactively. This study aims to examine the range and extent of information and telecommunication technologies for managing frailty in older adults, their technology readiness level, the evidence, and the associated outcomes.

Parkinson's disease and wearable devices, new perspectives for a public health issue: an integrative literature review.

Parkinson's disease is the second most common neurodegenerative disease, with an estimated prevalence of 41/100,000 individuals affected aged between 40 and 49 years old and 1,900/100,000 aged 80 and over. Based on the essentiality of ascertaining which wearable devices have clinical literary evidence and with the purpose of analyzing the information revealed by such technologies, we conducted this scientific article of integrative review. It is an integrative review, whose main objective is to carry out a summary of the state of the art of wearable devices used in patients with Parkinson's disease.

[Communication in medicine: a new and much needed curricular alternative].

Background: Medical education must emphasize communication practices mostly for undergraduate medical students.

Objectives: To introduce an approach for teaching and learning communication in medicine.

Methods: Review of the literature.

[Pertussis predictors in hospitalized infants with acute lower respiratory tract infection].

Background: Pertussis, or whooping cough, caused by Bordetella pertussis (BP) is a re-emerging problem in our environment. Although generally considered that the disease is relatively easy to identify infections respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) can present with similar symptoms in infants remains difficult discrimination.

Objective: Compare clinical symptoms at admission and complementary studies in infants hospitalized with acute respiratory infection (ARI) and RSV by BP to establish markers that enable their early clinical prediction.

[Design of a simple score to predict the etiology of pneumonia in children].

Background: The etiology of pneumonia is important to indicate antibiotics. A clinical prediction score (RP) has been designed, although the radiological interpretation is not easy.

Objective: To design a simple prediction score (PRs) to identify etiology in children with pneumonia, including radiological patterns, clinical and laboratory features.

[Antibiotics prescription in infants hospitalized with respiratory syncytial virus pneumonia].

Introduction: Although not useful, antibiotics are commonly prescribed in infants with viral pneumonia.

Objective: To compare initial prescription and suspension rates of antibiotics in infants hospitalized with pneumonia by respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) in 2002, when introducing the viral testing, and in 2007, after 5 years of this practice.

Population And Methods: Children aged under 13 months hospitalized for RSV pneumonia during two years (2002 and 2007) were included.

Gallbladder metastases from ductal papillary carcinoma of the breast.

Breast cancer occurs primarily in women aged 25 years or older. Breast carcinoma has the potential for widespread dissemination, such as metastasis to axillary lymph nodes, bone, lung, pleura, brain, and soft tissues. Liver, gastrointestinal, and biliary tract involvement are infrequent.