Publications by authors named "Lucia Maria Soares de Azevedo"
Advances in Shared Decision Making in Brazil: The role of patient autonomy in curriculum reform, health system and clinical care.
Z Evid Fortbild Qual Gesundhwes
December 2024
Clinical practice in Brazil has rapidly transformed. Doctor-patient relationships are the focus of these transformations, either within health policies or in the context of medical training. The Brazilian Curriculum Guidelines have emphasized the doctor-patient relationship as part of medical skills and competences, based on patient-centered care.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAdvances in Shared Decision Making in Brazil: The role of patient autonomy in curriculum reform, health system and clinical care.
Z Evid Fortbild Qual Gesundhwes
May 2022
Article Synopsis
- Clinical practice in Brazil is evolving, with a strong focus on enhancing doctor-patient relationships through health policies and medical training.
- * The Brazilian Curriculum Guidelines now prioritize patient-centered care as a key aspect of medical skills and competences.
- * The article discusses political advancements in patient-centered care, the current status of decision aids, and curricular reforms aimed at improving communication skills, integrating narrative medicine and the arts into medical education for better shared decision-making.
Background: The incidence of preputial lichen sclerosus (PLS) among children presenting with phimosis varies from 10 to 95%, depending on the age, the protocol for the treatment of pediatric phimosis, the method of diagnosis (clinical versus histological), and case mix (congenital versus acquired phimosis).
Objective: PLS may not be clinically obvious. Our aim is to show that a systematic histological examination of the prepuce may diagnose PLS in clinically unsuspected cases.
Background: In Brazil, the incidence of penile cancer is 8.3 cases per 100,000 population, in contrast to 0.7 in Europe and the United States.
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