Background: Burnout in the hospital environment is a problem that affects care and training. Often explored in the high-income medical context, burnout is poorly studied in low and middle-income countries characterized by a precarious hospital situation and a high stake linked to the Millennium Development Goals. The aim of our study was to determine in medical practitioners, in a sub-Saharan African country's medical context, the burnout level and associated factors.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Recently, serious morbidity events associated with initial glomerular filtration rate (GFR) have been described during HIV infection, but this is insufficiently investigated in sub-Saharan Africa very affected by HIV.
Objective: To assess the impact of baseline GFR prevailing during the first semester of the HIV infection management on six-year survival in peoples taking antiretroviral therapy.
Patients And Methods: Closed retrospective cohort study.
Background: Acquired hyponatremia is a life threatening event. Intravenous infusion of a mixture of 5% glucose and sodium solute is mainly used, but its contribution in the occurrence of acquired hyponatremia in adult, is under-investigated outside intensive care unit.
Objective: To evaluate the place of intravenous infusion of a mixture of 5% glucose and sodium in predicting acquired hyponatremia in adult polyvalent medicine service.
Pan Afr Med J
September 2017
The literature reports that mixed connective tissue disease seems more frequent in the black population and among Asians. This study aims to determine the prevalence of mixed connective tissue disease (MCTD) among connective tissue disorders and all rheumatologic pathologies in a hospital population in Gabon as well as to describe the clinical features of this disease. We conducted a retrospective study by reviewing the medical records of patients treated for mixed connective tissue disease (Kasukawa criteria) and other entities of connective tissue disorders (ACR criteria) in the Division of Rheumatology at the University Hospital in Libreville between January 2010 and December 2015.
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