[Epidemiological and clinical characteristics of the COVID-19 epidemic in Mexico: Quintana Roo case].

Objective: Identify risk factors for severe outcome in Mexican patients with COVID-19 in the population of Quintana Roo.

Material And Methods: Study of 5,916 who met the criteria for suspected cases of COVID-19, 2,531 confirmed by qrTPCR-Sars-CoV-2 tests, of which 1,486 were positive, among which they were classified as hospitalized (severe COVID-19) and outpatients. Multivariate logistic regression analysis was performed to explore the factors associated with the severity of COVID-19 and death as clinical outcomes.

[Intimate partner violence. Types and risk in primary care health users in Cancun, Quintana Roo, Mexico].

Objective: To identify the prevalence and type of intimate partner violence in women assigned at primary care health and estimates the risks for violence.

Design: Case (incident cases)-control.

Location: Primary health care unit in Cancun, Quintana Roo, Mexico.

Handcrafted Vacuum-Assisted Device for Skin Ulcers Treatment Versus Traditional Therapy, Randomized Controlled Trial.

Background: Chronic lower limb ulcers constitute a public health problem, with important socioeconomic implications and high attention cost. This trial evaluates handcrafted vacuum-assisted therapy versus traditional treatment effectiveness for lower limbs ulcers.

Materials And Methods: It was a prospective randomized clinical trial conducted over 144 patients with lower limbs ulcers.

[Preclinical horizon of depression in adults].

Objective: Identify factors related to preclinical depression in healthy adults, their risk factors and concordance with family doctor diagnostic.

Materials And Methods: Case-control study in adult from family medicine consulting room. Beck inventory for depression was applied.

[Breastfeeding, complementary feeding and risk of childhood obesity].

Objective: To evaluate the pattern of breastfeeding and weaning as a risk of obesity in pre-school children from a Primary Care Unit.

Design: Cross-sectional analytical study LOCATION: Cancun, Quintana Roo (Mexico).

Participants: Children from 2-4 years of age from a Primary Care Unit.

[Epidemiological characteristics of depressed Mexican pregnant women].

Objective: To estimate the prevalence of depression in pregnant women, the epidemiological characteristics and associated factors.

Methods: A cross-comparison, with a sample of 220 pregnant women between 18 and 32 weeks gestation. We excluded patients with depression six months before the current pregnancy.

[Quality of life in patients with continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis].

Objective: To evaluate different aspects of the quality of life of patients with continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis, using the survey SF-36 (Medical Outcomes Study 36-Short Form Health Survey).

Methodology: A cross-sectional study was carried out with patients older than 18 years having chronic renal failure and being registered in the continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis program in the last three months. A sample size of 48 patients was estimated.

[Correlation between the level of work satisfaction and professional burnout in family physicians].

Objective: To determine the correlation between labour satisfaction and physician wear out.

Material And Methods: There was a cross sectional study with all the family doctors from four Units of Family Medicine from Cancun (n = 102), with four or more years of medical practice. The questionnaire Red Font was used for labour satisfaction and Maslach Burnout Inventory for professional wear out, as well as the coefficient of correlation of Kendall.

[Acute asthma and its costs of care at an emergency service].

Background: The request in the urgency service for attention in acute asthma is determined by multiple factors as the medical handling, the constancy and the pursuance of the patient in the adequate follow up of the treatment, the climate, the food hygienic habits and the allergies.

Objective: To determine in one year period, the frequency, recurrence of medical attention for acute asthma and the cost in the hospital urgency service of second level in medical attention.

Material And Methods: We made an analysis of a secondary study done in 1999 in pediatric patients younger than 16 years with diagnosis of acute asthma.

[Direct cost of care for acute asthmatic crisis at a pediatric emergency service].

Background: The acute asthma crisis in emergency services of second level hospitals represents one of the highest levels of intake, generating a high number of hospitalizations.

Objective: To determine, in emergency service medical attention, the frequency and direct cost related generated by the hospitalization of pediatric patients with acute asthma crisis in second level attention of Social Security Service (Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, IMSS).

Materials And Method: In 2000, a cohort study was done on pediatric patients with acute asthma crisis in a second level hospital.