Search results for "THERAPY"

Hemofilia: ejercicio y deporte

2011

El ejercicio físico y el deporte constituyen uno de los pilares básicos en el tratamiento de la hemofilia. Este trabajo describe un resumen de las características de la hemofilia y, a través de una exhaustiva revisión bibliográfica, se analiza la importancia de la condición física, en relación con la prevención y el tratamiento de las lesiones musculoesqueléticas en el paciente hemofílico. La hemofilia es una enfermedad hematológica hereditaria, con lesiones ortopédicas características. Afecta a individuos varones y presenta un déficit de factores de la coagulación que provoca hemorragias incluso espontáneas (en pacientes graves sin tratamiento). Las lesiones más frecuentes son: hemartrosis…

Theme: Exercise for low back pain: Low back pain - to exercise or not to exercise?

2007

Metacognitive group training for forensic and dangerous non-forensic patients with schizophrenia: A randomised controlled feasibility trial

2014

BACKGROUND: In schizophrenia, the presence of certain cognitive biases has been established. Informed by this, metacognitive training (MCT) has been developed for schizophrenia. There is increasing evidence of its effectiveness with some patients, but its applicability to dangerous patients has not yet been demonstrated. AIMS: Our aim was to test the feasibility of a randomised controlled trial (RCT) of MCT for patients in a high-security hospital setting. METHODS: Twenty of 33 eligible and selected male in-patients with schizophrenia and a history of violence were randomised pairwise to eight sessions of MCT or treatment as usual. Symptom severity and reasoning, according to the jumping to…

Editorial commentary: Sleep disordered breathing and cardiovascular outcomes: is it time to change our thinking?

2017

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Community-onset Pseudomonas aeruginosa urinary sepsis in elderly people: Predictive factors, adequacy of empirical therapy and outcomes.

2019

Purpose To know the predictive factors for Pseudomonas aeruginosa (PA) urinary sepsis in hospitalised elderly patients coming from community, the adequacy of empirical antibiotic therapy and its outcomes. Methods Retrospective case-control study conducted between 2007 and 2017. Patients aged 65 years or older with PA urinary sepsis were included as cases. Three age-matched controls, with urinary sepsis caused by other microorganisms, were selected for each case. Predictors for PA urinary sepsis were determined by logistic regression analysis. Adequacy of empirical antibiotic therapy and outcomes were compared between both groups. Results A total of 332 patients, from which 83 were cases, we…

The Quality of Prenatal Period Nursing Care from the Perspective of Pregnant Women

2014

Introducción: la calidad de la atención a la embarazada exige acogimiento, escucha, envolvimiento y compromiso, además de la resolución de problemas o disponibilidad de recursos tecnológicos e infraestructura. Objetivo: describir la visión de las embarazadas acerca de la calidad de la asistencia de enfermería en el periodo prenatal e identificar las expectativas y necesidades de las mujeres en esa perspectiva. Materiales y métodos: investigación cualitativa, exploratoria, realizada en el Hospital de Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. Participaron veinte embarazadas. Se utilizó la entrevista abierta e individual; el referencial metodológico fue el análisis del contenido de Bardin. La investigación fue …

Behaviour-change interventions in primary care: Influence on nutrition and on the metabolic syndrome definers

2011

The purpose of this paper was to examine whether interventions influenced patients' (i) consumption of fish; whole grain products; fruits and vegetables; (ii) overall nutrition, that is, the three former as an index; and (iii) clinical outcomes in terms of metabolic syndrome definers. A questionnaire was delivered to adult patients entering the nine health centres on November 2006 (n = 1211). During the year the ward personnel conducted intervention on patients with unhealthy habits. The 12-month follow up was conducted by mailings. Also clinical data of pre- and post-intervention values of metabolic syndrome definers were collected. For the analyses, intervention was divided into brief (≤ …

2015

Quality of life (QoL) is increasingly recognized as central to the broad construct of recovery in patients with substance use disorders (SUD). However, few longitudinal studies have evaluated changes in QoL after SUD treatment and included patients with SUD that were compulsorily hospitalized. This study aimed to describe QoL among in-patients admitted either voluntarily or compulsorily to hospitalization and to examine patterns and predictors of QoL at admission and at 6 months post treatment. This prospective study followed 202 hospitalized patients with SUD that were admitted voluntarily (N=137) or compulsorily (N=65). A generic QoL questionnaire (QoL-5) was used to assess QoL domains. R…

Hepatitis C virus resistance to new specifically-targeted antiviral therapy: A public health perspective

2012

Until very recently, treatment for chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection has been based on the combination of two non-viral specific drugs: pegylated interferon-α and ribavirin, which is effective in, overall, about 40%-50% of cases. To improve the response to treatment, novel drugs have been designed to specifically block viral proteins. Multiple compounds are under development, and the approval for clinical use of the first of such direct-acting antivirals in 2011 (Telaprevir and Boceprevir), represents a milestone in HCV treatment. HCV therapeutics is entering a new expanding era, and a highly-effective cure is envisioned for the first time since the discovery of the virus in 1989. H…

Severe Chronic Allergic (and Related) Diseases: A Uniform Approach – A MeDALL – GA<sup>2</sup>LEN – ARIA Position Paper

2012

Concepts of disease severity, activity, control and responsiveness to treatment are linked but different. Severity refers to the loss of function of the organs induced by the disease process or to the occurrence of severe acute exacerbations. Severity may vary over time and needs regular follow-up. Control is the degree to which therapy goals are currently met. These concepts have evolved over time for asthma in guidelines, task forces or consensus meetings. The aim of this paper is to generalize the approach of the uniform definition of severe asthma presented to WHO for chronic allergic and associated diseases (rhinitis, chronic rhinosinusitis, chronic urticaria and atopic dermatitis) in …