Publications by authors named "Marta Santalha"
Article Synopsis
- - The study compares three methods of measuring adherence to asthma inhalers: an asthma app, patient self-report, and physician assessment, focusing on the importance of understanding both patient and physician perspectives in clinical practice for better shared decision-making.
- - Conducted with 193 patients in Portugal, the results showed that app-based adherence (31% for 1 week, 18% for 1 month) was significantly lower than self-reported adherence (80%) and physician assessments (82%).
- - The findings indicate a weak correlation between app measurements and subjective assessments, while a moderate correlation exists between patient self-reports and physician evaluations, suggesting that the app may not fully capture adherence levels.
Background: Health and fitness apps have potential benefits to improve self-management and disease control among patients with asthma. However, inconsistent use rates have been reported across studies, regions, and health systems. A better understanding of the characteristics of users and nonusers is critical to design solutions that are effectively integrated in patients' daily lives, and to ensure that these equitably reach out to different groups of patients, thus improving rather than entrenching health inequities.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: We aimed to compare patient's and physician's ratings of inhaled medication adherence and to identify predictors of patient-physician discordance.
Design: Baseline data from two prospective multicentre observational studies.
Setting: 29 allergy, pulmonology and paediatric secondary care outpatient clinics in Portugal.
Introduction: Refractory iron-deficiency anemia with no obvious etiology in pediatric age can be a puzzling problem. Screening of iron malabsorption conditions, including autoimmune atrophic gastritis (AAG), is emerging as a priority in the investigational procedure.
Materials And Methods: Retrospective analysis of clinical process of children/adolescents with the diagnosis of AAG.
Lymphocytic gastritis (LG) is a chronic inflammatory process of poorly understood pathogenesis. We report the case of a 12-year-old premenstrual girl with refractory iron deficiency anemia in which the oral iron absorption challenge suggested iron malabsorption. Laboratory studies ruled out celiac disease and autoimmune gastritis, and carbon-13 urea breath test for Helicobacter pylori was also negative.
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