Publications by authors named "Jose Pacheco-Romero"

Background: Preeclampsia is a multiorgan disorder associated with maternal and perinatal morbi-mortality. In Peru, incidence is 10% and accounts for 22% of maternal deaths. Genome and genetic epidemiological studies have found an association between preeclampsia and genetic polymorphisms.

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Background: International collaboration is increasingly used in biomedical research.

Aim: To describe the characteristics of scientific production in Latin America and the main international collaboration networks for the period 2000 to 2009.

Material And Methods: Search for papers generated in Latin American countries in the Clinical Medicine database of ISI Web of Knowledge v.

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Introduction: References are fundamental in our studies; an adequate selection is asimportant as an adequate description.

Objectives: To determine the number of errors in a sample of references found in Peruvian medical journals.

Methods: We reviewed 515 scientific papers references selected by systematic randomized sampling and corroborated reference information with the original document or its citation in Pubmed, LILACS or SciELO-Peru.

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Introduction: Biomedical journals have suffered world wide revolutions due to globalization of information, evolving from the printed version to the electronic one. The status of Peruvian medical journals is not currently known.

Objectives: To determine indexing, production for 2005 to 2007; and visibility of Peruvian biomedical journals for 2008.

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