ANAMT technical guideline: occupational telediagnosis.

The relationships between work and health/illness are the main task of the occupational physician, with the occupational medical examination being used to address these relationships, together with a workplace study and epidemiological analyses. This study had as a guiding clinical question: Is telemedicine occupational examination (telediagnosis) accurate compared with in-person occupational examination? The studies were selected by four independent reviewers, meeting the eligibility criteria. The searches resulted in 12,654, 29, 3, and 0 articles retrieved from MEDLINE, EMBASE, and Google Scholar databases and hand search, respectively.

Sickle-Cell Disease and Stroke: Quality of Life of Patients in a Chronic Transfusion Regimen from the Caregivers' Perspective.

Strokes affect up to 10% of children with sickle-cell disease (SCD). The most commonly used strategy to prevent a first-time stroke or its recurrence is to perform periodic red blood cell transfusions. This article aims to evaluate the quality of life (QoL) of children and adolescents with SCD undergoing a chronic transfusion regimen (CTR) for stroke prophylaxis, according to their caregivers' perception.

Real-world disease activity and sociodemographic, clinical and treatment characteristics of moderate-to-severe inflammatory bowel disease in Brazil.

Background: Understanding the treatment landscape of inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) is essential for improving disease management and patient outcomes. Brazil is the largest Latin American country, and it presents socioeconomic and health care differences across its geographical regions. This country has the highest increase in IBD incidence and prevalence in Latin America, but information about the clinical and treatment characteristics of IBD is scarce.

Economic Impact of Dengue: Multicenter Study across Four Brazilian Regions.

Background: Dengue is an increasing public health concern in Brazil. There is a need for an updated evaluation of the economic impact of dengue within the country. We undertook this multicenter study to evaluate the economic burden of dengue in Brazil.

Inflammatory bowel disease in an underdeveloped region of Northeastern Brazil.

Aim: To evaluate the demographic characteristics and clinical phenotypes of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) in a geographic area in Northeastern Brazil.

Methods: This retrospective study was conducted at the Hospital of the Federal University of Piauí in Northeastern Brazil. Demographic characteristics and clinical phenotypes of IBD were analyzed in relation to the time of diagnostic confirmation, which was defined as the date of disease onset.