Publications by authors named "Enrique Pacheco del Cerro"
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- * Methods: A prospective observational study was conducted with 503 AMI patients, assessing their adherence to medications, diet, exercise, and rehabilitation at 6 and 12 months, while also evaluating various predictors through self-administered questionnaires.
- * Results: 85% of patients failed to adhere to at least one recommendation after one year, with factors like caregiver burden and depressive symptoms being more significant in women. Chronic kidney disease and being female were linked to poor adherence specifically to diet, highlighting the need for tailored
Background: Nursing students need to acquire knowledge through active methods that promote critical thinking and decision making. The purpose of this study is to analyze whether there are differences in the acquisition of knowledge by nursing students between active face-to-face or virtual teaching methods.
Methods: In this comparative study, nursing students enrolled in the psychology course were divided into two groups: a face-to-face group that received active teaching methods and a virtual group.
Background: There is a lack of validated tools to measure comfort in critically ill patients.
Objective: The objective of this study was to evaluate the psychometric properties of the General Comfort Questionnaire (GCQ) in patients admitted to intensive care units (ICUs).
Methodology: A total of 580 patients were recruited, randomising the sample into two homogeneous subgroups of 290 patients for exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis, respectively.
Unlabelled: At the present time, failure to follow prescribed treatments is a problem of deep draft of health systems. The problem is both clinical and economic. Nurses are main responsible, within the health system, to ensure the proper monitoring of therapeutic guidelines agreed with the patients, by themselves or by other health care professionals.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: The consumption of antibiotics for systemic use has been well studied. However, data of topical use in our country are an anecdotal reference in the literature.
Objective: To evaluate the outpatient use of topical antimicrobials in Spain associated with other drugs during the period December 2005 and November 2007.
Only making use of Levonorgestrel as a post intercourse anti-conceptive method has proven to be more effective than prior methods and is the object under study in this report. This post intercourse anti-conceptive consists of a set of methods which, employed after at risk sexual intercourse and within a maximum period of time, avoid pregnancy. This post intercourse anti-conceptive is not considered to be an abortion method but it should not be used as a habitual anti-conceptive method due to its adverse effects and its numerous interactions with other pharmaceutical products.
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