Temporal-spatial analysis of hospitalizations for bronchiolitis in Brazil: prediction of epidemic regions and periods for immunization against the Respiratory Syncytial Virus.

Objective: Due to the high cost and short term of passive immunization against the respiratory syncytial virus, the main virus causing acute viral bronchiolitis, predicting epidemic regions and epidemic months is extremely important. The objective of this study is to identify both the month when the seasonal peak begins and Brazilian regions and states with the highest incidence of monthly hospitalizations due acute viral bronchiolitis.

Methods: Based on data obtained from DATASUS, monthly hospitalization rates due acute viral bronchiolitis were calculated for every 10,000 live births to children under 12 months of age in all Brazilian states and the Federal District between 2000 and 2019.

Myofascial trigger points in patients with temporomandibular joint disc displacement with reduction: a cross-sectional study.

Objective: The objective of this retrospective study was to evaluate the impact of myofascial trigger points (MTrPs) in patients with articular disc displacement with reduction (DDWR) and to identify which clinical variables are associated with the concomitant presence of DDWR and MTrPs.

Material And Methods: 130 patients were selected that sought treatment due to joint pain, with ages ≥18 years, of both genders, with DDWR confirmed by magnetic resonance imaging. The sample was divided into two groups: Group 1, patients with DDWR and MTrPs (N=101); and Group 2, patients with DDWR and no MTrPs (N=29).

Qualitative Determination of Human Chorionic Gonadotropin in Vaginal Washings for the Early Diagnosis of Premature Rupture of Fetal Membranes.

 This study aimed to evaluate and validate the qualitative human chorionic gonadotropin β subunit (β-hCG) test of the vaginal fluid washings of pregnant women with premature rupture of fetal membranes (PROM).  Cross-sectional study of pregnant women between gestational weeks 24 and 39 who underwent consultations in one of our institutions. They were divided into two groups: group A (pregnant women clinically diagnosed with PROM) and group B (pregnant women without loss of amniotic liquid).

Time series investigation of changes in seasonality of acute diarrhea hospitalizations before and after rotavirus vaccine in Southern Brazil.

Diarrhea by rotavirus is one of the main causes of mortality in children in developing countries, although the hospitalization rates (HR) for acute diarrhea have been found to have fallen since the introduction of the rotavirus vaccine. However, the patterns of the rotavirus are still not well understood and seasonal peaks occur throughout the year, with variations between countries and over time. The main objective of this study was to analyze the temporal behavior of HR caused by acute diarrhea in children under the age of one in the south of Brazil, between 2000 and 2011, and to explore changes in seasonality patters after the introduction of the vaccine against the rotavirus in 2006.

Intervention analysis of introduction of rotavirus vaccine on hospital admissions rates due to acute diarrhea.

The aim of this study is to investigate the impact of rotavirus vaccine on hospitalization rates for acute diarrhea in children younger than 5 years old after the introduction of the vaccine in 2006. A descriptive analytical observational study was carried out of the hospitalization rates occurred between 2000 and 2011 in 22 Regional Health Centers of Paraná State, Brazil. The effect of the vaccine was assessed by applying the SARIMA/Box-Jenkins time series methodology of intervention analysis, which allows verifying the slopes of the series are different after the introduction of the vaccine and estimating the magnitude of these effects for children younger than five years of age, by age group, for each region center.

Hemoglobin levels and prevalence of anemia in pregnant women assisted in primary health care services, before and after fortification of flour.

We evaluated hemoglobin-Hb levels and prevalence of anemia in pregnant women before and after fortification of flour. It was developed a study to evaluate intervention, of the type before and after, with independent population samples. Study was conducted in primary health care services in Maringá, PR.

Evaluation of conservative management of high-grade cervical squamous intraepithelial lesion.

Objective: To assess the association between conservative management of high-grade cervical squamous intraepithelial lesions and recurrence rates and age groups.

Methods: Cross-sectional, retrospective, analytical observational study of 509 women (aged 15 to 76) with abnormal Pap smears attending a public reference center in the city of Maringá, southern Brazil, from 1996 to 2006. Data was collected from medical records, and the variables definitive diagnosis, type of treatment provided, occurrence of high-grade cervical squamous intraepithelial lesions and recurrence were studied.

[Knowledge, acceptability and use of the Billings natural family planning method].

This is an observational quantitative and analytical study aimed at verifying the knowledge, acceptability and use of natural family planning (NFP) by patients in a university hospital from July to November, 2008. The data were collected using a structured questionnaire and analyzed with the softwares Excel and Statistica 8.0.

Anemia in Brazilian pregnant women before and after flour fortification with iron.

Objective: To compare prevalence of anemia and hemoglobin (Hb) levels in Brazilian pregnant women before and after flour fortification with iron.

Methods: A repeated cross-sectional panel study of public health care centers of municipalities in the five Brazilian regions was conducted. Retrospective data were obtained from 12,119 medical records of pregnant women distributed in two groups: before fortification (delivery prior to June 2004) and after fortification (date of last period after June 2005).

[Using correspondence analysis to evaluate information records of the risk newborns].

This study aims to analyze in different information systems the quality of the information on infants enrolled in the High-Risk Newborn Vigilance Program. This is a cross-sectional study with quantitative analysis. Data was collected from the following forms and charts: the Newborn Montoring Form; Information System of Primary Care Forms, A and C; and forms of 505 children at risk in 23 Basic Health Units (UBS).

[Profile and process of the care provided to high-risk newborns in southern Brazil].

Objective: To describe newborns at risk and check the process of care provided by the High Risk Newborn Surveillance Program in Maringá-PR.

Methods: Data were collected from medical records and monitoring sheets of a stratified sample consisting of 505 newborns at risk, born in 2007. Maternal and neonatal care were analyzed descriptively using Statistica 7.

[Breast cancer mortality in women from Maringá city, Paraná State, Brazil].

This study aims at analyzing the mortality behavior by breast cancer in women from Maringá city, Paraná state, Brazil, from 1990 to 2004. It is a quantitative, descriptive and transversal cut study. The data were collected from the Information System on Mortality of the Health Ministry where the following variables were considered: age, educational level and race/ color groups.

[Quality and performance of pap smears in the cervical cancer screening program in a city of southern Brazil].

Objective: To estimate prevalence and analyze quality and performance of colpocytology carried out under the Cervical Cancer Screening Program in Maringá, Paraná, Brazil.

Methods: A retrospective study of the SIS-Colo database of the Brazilian Ministry of Health. Variables such as age, colpocytology result and origin were analyzed.

[Activities of university extension in an infant mortality prevention committee and health statistics].

Extra classes' activities with the Committee of Infant Mortality Prevention of the 15th Paraná Health Office (15th HO) and some approaches to health statistics, are described. Those activities articulate a partnership between the Nursing Department of the State University of Maringá and the 15th HO. A description of the Committee's attributions, the advances since the partnership start, the importance of the infant mortality investigations as well as understanding the information systems are presented.

[Low birth weight and associated factors].

Birth weight is a measure commonly used to assess circumstances at childbirth. This study had the objective of analyzing the connection between birth weight and maternal variables according to Certificates of Live Birth. The design was transversal, descriptive, analytical, and the sample was formed by 4015 birth certificates from Maringá Municipality, Paraná, Brazil, in the year 2001.

[The absenteeism-disease of a nursing team in an intensive care unit].

This study aimed at investigating the absenteeism disease in an Adult-ICU. The descriptive-exploratory study was carried out with 56 nurses who worked in the ICU in 2006. The frequency (fi)rate and the wasted-time percentage for the absenteeism disease were calculated.