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To improve chronic illness care, patients must be empowered and engaged in health self-management. However, only half of all patients with chronic illness comply with treatment programme. The self-regulation model needs ...

The Index of ADL was developed to study results of treatment and prognosis in the elderly and chronically ill. Grades of the Index summarize over-all performance in bathing, dressing, going to toilet, transferring, conti...

Objective. To evaluate a theoretical model designed toexplain behaviors toward mental illness, considering somevariables related to the construct. Material and Methods.A survey was conducted in 1996 on mental disorder be...

BACKGROUND: Hyperglycemia and insulin resistance are common in critically ill patients, even if they have not previously had diabetes. Whether the normalization of blood glucose levels with insulin therapy improves the p...

Typhoid fever remains an important cause of illness globally with the annual incidence at 21 million cases, of which many end fatally. Due to increasing resistant to antibiotics and limited available vaccine against sa...

The aim of this study was to evaluate pharmaceutical counseling following hospital discharge. All subjects received pharmacist counseling before discharge in a private hospital in Aracaju-SE, Brazil, from October 2007 ...

Rorippa nasturtium-aquaticum (watercress) is recognized as a nutritious plant, rich in vitamins and minerals and it is used in the treatment of many illnesses. The aim of the present work was to develop a genotoxic ana...

This study aimed to investigate the satisfaction of patients with uncontrolled hypertension referred for pharmacotherapy followup. A cross-sectional study by semi-structured interview was used. The sample comprised patie...

A pharmaceutical care program for dyslipidemic patients was designed, implemented, and assessed. The study was conducted during 32 weeks, at three Primary Health Care Centers. One hundred and forty two patients were sele...

El propósito del estudio fue establecer el intervalo de referencia para el ionograma sérico de caimanes autóctonos del nordeste argentino mantenidos en cautiverio, así como detectar variaciones fisiológicas atribuib...

La susceptibilidad bacteriana de 40 cepas aisladas de Pseudomonas aeruginosa a seis agentes antimicrobianos ceftiofur (CFT), colistin (COL), danofloxacin (DNF), enrofloxacin (ENF), gentamicin, (GEN), y trimethoprim:sulph...

The acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) was defined in 1994 by the American-European Consensus Conference (AECC); since then, issues regarding the reliability and validity of this definition have emerged. Using a ...

BACKGROUND: Vaccines are needed to prevent coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) and to protect persons who are at high risk for complications. The mRNA-1273 vaccine is a lipid nanoparticle-encapsulated mRNA-based vaccine ...

Abstract Psychology after World War II became a science largely devoted to healing. It concentrated on repairing damage using a disease model of human functioning. This almost exclusive attention to pathology neglected t...

Sociology for Pharmacists: An Introduction is written specifically for professionals and students in pharmacy who are newcomers to the study of sociology. It introduces the key concepts of sociology and demonstrates thei...