Publications by authors named "Loredmy Herrera Kiengelher"
Objective: To measure the degree of stress among medical residents at a Third Level Hospital in Mexico City during the sanitary contingency caused by the AH1N1 influenza virus.
Methods: A transversal descriptive study with a non-probabilistic sample of 99 medical residents with different fields of specialization related to respiratory medicine. Researchers applied the Maslach Burnout Inventory questionnaire to evaluate three dimensions: emotional fatigue, depersonalization, and personal fulfillment.
Objective: To assess quality of the relationship between inpatients and health providers.
Methods: A qualitative study was carried out in a tertiary care hospital in the Mexico City, Mexico, between February and July 2005. In-depth interviews were conducted with 40 inpatients.
Objective: To develop a valid, reliable, and sensitive self-administered questionnaire in Spanish to measure the knowledge asthmatic patients have of their disease.
Patients And Methods: The face and content validity of the questions was established by consensus among expert pulmonologists. To determine the importance of the questions, they were put to 100 participating asthmatic patients.
Objectives: To estimate the frequency of severe adverse events (AEs) during hospital stay as well as their type and correlates in a referral hospital for respiratory diseases, using methods similar to those used in the Harvard Medical Malpractice Study.
Design: Retrospective review of medical records in a stratified sample of 836 patients drawn from a total of 4,555 hospital admissions registered during the year 2001.
Setting: A referral tertiary-care hospital for patients with respiratory diseases located in Mexico City.