Publications by authors named "Frederico Arriaga Criscuoli de Farias"

Background: Both neurosurgery and orthopedic surgery are male-dominated specialties. However, the prevalence of women appears to be even lower in the spine surgery field. We intend to determine this prevalence on the editorial boards of spine, neurosurgery, and orthopedic journals.

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Background: Bibliometric analyses allow detecting citation trends within a field, including assessments of the most cited journals, countries, institutions, topics, types of study, and authors.

Objective: The aim of this study was to perform a bibliometric analysis of the 100 most cited papers within infectious meningitis research.

Materials And Methods: The 100 most cited publications and their data were retrieved from Scopus and Web of Science during 2019.

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Background Context: Female physicians rarely choose spine surgery as their specialty. Although the specialty's nature and its associated lifestyle are potential barriers, gender-related issues may play an important part.

Purpose: To evaluate the gender discrimination among spine surgeons across Latin America.

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Remote patient monitoring or telemonitoring aims at improving patient care through digitally transmitted health-related data. That allows early detection of disease decompensation and intervention, patient education and improves patientphysician relationship. Despite its relevance, there are no comprehensive reviews evaluating the variables discussed by clinical studies on telemonitoring.

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