Feasibility of using death certificates for studying place of death in Latin America.

Objective: This paper assesses the availability and quality of death certificate data in Latin America and the feasibility of using these data to study place of death and associated factors.

Methods: In this comparative study, we collected examples of current official death certificates and digital data files containing information about all deaths that occurred during 1 year in 19 Latin American countries. Data were collected from June 2019 to May 2020.

Identification and characteristics of patients with palliative care needs in Brazilian primary care.

Background: The Brazilian healthcare system offers universal coverage but lacks information about how patients with PC needs are serviced by its primary care program, Estratégia Saúde da Família (ESF).

Methods: Cross-sectional study in community settings. Patients in ESF program were screened using a Palliative Care Screening Tool (PCST).

Death in hospital and at home: population and health policy influences in Londrina, State of Paraná, Brazil (1996-2010).

An aging population and epidemiological transition involves prolonged terminal illnesses and an increased demand for end-stage support in health services, mainly in hospitals. Changes in health care and government health policies may influence the death locations, making it possible to remain at home or in an institution. The scope of this article is to analyze death locations in the city of Londrina, State of Paraná, from 1996 to 2010, and to verify the influence of population and health policy changes on these statistics.

Electromyographic activity of selected trunk muscles in subjects with and without hemiparesis during therapeutic exercise.

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the trunk muscles activity of hemiparetic and control subjects during selected therapeutic exercises with surface electromyography (sEMG). The sEMG evaluation included 12 subjects presenting hemiparesis after having suffered a unilateral stroke and 12 apparently healthy subjects. A 16-channel sEMG system was used; data were band pass filtered from 20 to 450Hz.

[Electromyographic alterations of trunk muscle of patients with post-stroke hemiparesis].

Unlabelled: Stroke is the main cause of chronic disability in adults, but few studies evaluated the trunk motor activity in affected subjects.

Objective: To compare the myoelectrical activity of trunk muscle in hemiparetic and control subjects.

Method: Eight hemiparetic and eight control subjects were assessed during lower extremities flexion and trunk rotation in supine position; stand up and rise up upper extremities in seated position.