Browsing by Title Facultad de Medicina
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(2012)Head and neck paragangliomas are tumors arising from specialized neural crest cells. Prominent locations are the carotid body along with the vagal, jugular, and tympanic glomus. Head and neck paragangliomas are slowly ...
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(1995)The objectives of this study were to determine the head circumference (HC) values of a representative sample of 4,346 school children aged 5 to 18 years from Chile's Metropolitan Region, to carry out a comparative study ...
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(Wiley-Blackwell, 2016)Rationale: Few proven interventions exist for acute ischemic stroke (AIS), and most are expensive and restricted in applicability. Lying flat ‘head down’ positioning of AIS patients has been shown to increase by as much ...
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(S. Karger AG, 2014)Background: Patients with acute ischemic stroke (AIS) have impaired vasomotor reactivity, especially in the affected cerebral hemisphere, such that they may depend directly on systemic blood pressure to maintain perfusion ...
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(BioMed Central, 2015)Background: Positioning a patient lying-flat in the acute phase of ischaemic stroke may improve recovery and reduce disability, but such a possibility has not been formally tested in a randomised trial. We therefore initiated ...
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(National Stroke Association, 2015)Background: Evidence to recommend a specific head position for patients in the early phase of acute ischemic stroke (AIS) is scarce. The aim of this study was to assess current head position practice for AIS patients among ...
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(Public Library of Science, 2017)© 2017 Porte et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original ...
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(Oxford University Press, 2018)
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(1992)The goal this follow-up study was to relate the mother's marital satisfaction to family health status in a low SES. The random sample was made up of 30 families with children under 7 years old: 15 considered as sick (Group ...
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(2009)Objectives: Frequently, the term "quality of life" has been used to justify personal and professional decisions in all fields of medicine. Nowadays, quality of life studies are based on development and validation of sensitive ...
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(Public Library of Science, 2020)
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(Wiley, 2018-07)ObjectiveThis study aims to address gaps in health conditions and unmet needs in daily activities between people with dementia (PWD) and without dementia in a developing country and to identify the variables associated ...
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(Instituto Nacional de Salud, 2013)Re-democratization has transformed the social agenda and the role of the state in Latin America with a growing commitment to health equity and social justice, yet these aspirations are strained by the region's profound ...
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(1990)The health situation in Chile is analyzed. The influence of geographic, ethnic, racial, demographic, socio-economic and cultural factors is considered. Strategies for prevention depend on the epidemiologic status of ...
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(Int Aids Society, 2016)Introduction: Latinos living with HIV in the Americas share a common ethnic and cultural heritage. In North America, Latinos have a relatively high rate of new HIV infections but lower rates of engagement at all stages of ...
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(Cadernos Saude Publica, 2020)In the 1980s, during the military dictatorship, Chile was a forerunner in Latin America in radical health system reform, expanding the private sector's participation in health insurance and services provision and influencing ...
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(BMC, 2020)Background Scientific journals play a critical role in research validation and dissemination and are increasingly vocal about the identification of research priorities and the targeting of research results to key audiences. ...
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(Elsevier, 2017)The Chilean health system has experienced important transformations in the last decades with a neoliberal turn to privatization of the health insurance and healthcare market since the Pinochet reforms of the 1980s. During ...
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(1995)OBJECTIVE. To identify the frequency of health events perceived by the population over 60 years of age in Santiago de Chile, to obtain information for health care programs tailored to needs. MATERIAL AND METHODS. During ...
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(Sociedad Medica de Santiago, 2014)The article conceptualizes the pharmaceutical pricing and reimbursement policies related to financial coverage in the context of health systems. It introduces the pharmaceutical market as an imperfect one, in which appropriate ...