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¿Aprender Medicina a distancia?: percepción de estudiantes confinados por la pandemia COVID-19
(SciELO, 2020-10)
Background: The suspension of face-to-face teaching activity due to the COVID-19 pandemic forced an abrupt transition to distance learning in Spanish universities. Aim: To know how medical students value ...
Prehospital emergency services in Catalonia: the SEPHCAT analysis
(Sociedad Española de Medicina de Urgencias y Emergencias, 2020)
Objectives: To describe the main characteristics of all prehospital emergency services (SEPHs, the Catalan acronym) in Catalonia (the SEPHCAT study). Material and methods: A professional survey researcher ...
Long-term outcome of radiotherapy-induced taste dysfunction in head and neck cancer patients: a pilot study
(Peertechz Publications, 2020)
Aims: Taste dysfunction is a frequent complaint in head and neck cancer patients treated with Radiation Therapy (RT), which impairs nutritional support and affects quality of life. A prospective unicenter ...
Impact of the 13-valent conjugated pneumococcal vaccine on the direct costs of invasive pneumococcal disease requiring hospital admission in children aged < 5 years: a prospective study
(MDPI, 2020)
The lack of invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) cost studies may underestimate the eect of pneumococcal polysaccharide conjugated vaccines (PCV). The objective of this study was to estimate the direct ...
Pneumonia in children admitted to the national referral hospital in Bhutan: a prospective cohort study
(Elsevier, 2020-06)
Objectives: The study aim was to describe the etiological profile and clinical characteristics of pneumonia among children hospitalized in Thimphu, Bhutan. Methods: This prospective study enrolled ...
Development of ARCADIA: a tool for assessing the quality of peer-review reports in biomedical research
(BMJ Publishing Group, 2020)
Objective: To develop a tool to assess the quality of peer-review reports in biomedical research. Methods We conducted an online survey intended for biomedical editors and authors. The survey aimed to ...
Signalling network of breast cancer cells in response to progesterone
(Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, 2020)
Breast cancer cells enter into the cell cycle following progestin exposure by the activation of signalling cascades involving a plethora of enzymes, transcription factors and co-factors that transmit ...
Enquiring beneath the surface: can a gene expression assay shed light into the heterogeneity among newborns with neonatal encephalopathy?
(Springer Nature, 2020)
Background: We aimed to assess whether a gene expression assay provided insights for understanding the heterogeneity among newborns affected by neonatal encephalopathy (NE). Methods: Analysis by RT-qPCR ...
Multimorbidity patterns in low-middle and high income regions: a multiregion latent class analysis using ATHLOS harmonised cohorts
(BMJ Publishing Group, 2020)
Our aim was to determine clusters of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in a very large, population-based sample of middle-aged and older adults from low- and middle-income (LMICs) and high-income (HICs) ...
High effectiveness of a 14-day concomitant therapy for Helicobacter pylori treatment in primary care. An observational multicenter study
(MDPI, 2020)
Background: The current cure rates with triple therapy combining a proton-pump inhibitor, amoxicillin and clarithromycin are unacceptably low. Aims: To evaluate the efficacy of a 14-day concomitant ...