Anticoagulation Management With Coumarinic Drugs in Chilean Patients.

Warfarin and acenocoumarol are used in various cardiovascular disorders to improve the prognosis of patients with thromboembolic disease. However, there is a lack of substantial efficacy and safety data on antithrombotic prophylaxis in several countries, particularly in Latin America. The aim of this study was to provide information about the efficacy of anticoagulants in Chilean patients.

The Chilean Rural Practitioner Programme: a multidimensional strategy to attract and retain doctors in rural areas.

Developing countries currently face internal and external migration of their health workforce and interventions are needed to attract and retain health professionals in rural areas. Evidence of multidimensional interventions, however, is scarce. This study explores a long-standing strategy to attract and retain doctors to rural areas in Chile: the Rural Practitioner Programme.

[Medical subspecialities and health policies: Health Ministry view].

Since the condition of subspecialty medicine in Chile has not been thoroughly studied, little can be said on an objective basis. From a standpoint of national health policies, the Ministry of Health wishes to establish a mixed system in which participating subsystem can define its own goals as means to meet the populations' health demands. The National System of Health Services (SNSS), in accordance with its social objectives, has decided to implement the delivery of integral health care, emphasizing health promotion and disease prevention.