Publications by authors named "Renata Bernardes David"

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  • Long COVID involves ongoing symptoms that persist beyond typical recovery times, presenting challenges for understanding its clinical impacts across various populations and healthcare systems.
  • The study introduces a text mining technique called phonetic text clustering (PTC) to analyze unstructured data from a long COVID survey at a university hospital, aiming to categorize similar medical terms more effectively.
  • Using n-gram analysis on Portuguese medical terminology, the research seeks to enhance understanding of long COVID and its implications for global healthcare, with potential for application in various healthcare environments.
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The purpose of this study was to characterize the scope of practice of physicians working in primary healthcare participating in the Mais Médicos (More Doctors) Program ('PMM') and investigate the factors associated with execution of a larger number of clinical activities. It is an exploratory study carried over January to March 2016, through a self-applied questionnaire containing a list of 49 procedures, activities and actions carried out in primary healthcare. A total of 1,241 physicians took part in the study, most of them female, between age 40 and 49, and of Cuban nationality.

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