Recommendations for the initial management of multisystem inflammatory syndrome temporally related to COVID-19, in children and adolescents.

Multisystem inflammatory syndrome temporally related to COVID-19 in children and adolescents is a clinical presentation of SARS-CoV-2 infection. It shares some features with Kawasaki disease, toxic shock, sepsis, macrophage activation syndrome, and myocarditis. Few publications have addressed its initial management, which is similar to that proposed for septic shock.

[Barriers to implementing screening, brief intervention and referral to treatment for substance use in HIV/AIDS health services in Peru].

Objectives.: Screening and treatment for substance use among people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) is highly recommended. Nevertheless, in Peru healthcare for PLWHA does not include a standardized or systematic assessment to identify substance use.

[Primary care in the USA and the Peruvian experience in perspective].

Due to a complex payment system, the health system of the United States is fragmented, expensive, and achieves the goal of improving the health of the entire population. Excessive health costs increase the budget deficit in the US. This situation makes to the government to have greater willingness to try new approaches in the delivery of health services.

[Efficacy of the therapeutic community model in the treatment of drug use-related problems: a systematic review].

Objective: To summarize the scientific evidence about the efficacy of therapeutic communities (TC) to reduce substance use and related problems among people with substance use disorders.

Methods: This systematic review builds from the work performed by Smith et al. (2006).

[Predictive factors of alcohol use problems among patients visiting an emergency room].

Objectives: To assess the predictive effect of key individual-level characteristics to identify cases of alcohol use problems among patients visiting an emergency room.

Materials And Methods: The study sample was composed of 371 people attending an emergency room in a public hospital in Lima, Peru, during a period of seven complete days in January, 2005. For data gathering, we used a questionnaire for demographic information, the SIDUC/CICAD for recent use (i.