Elena Guardiola

La investigación es susceptible de ser evaluada de la misma manera que lo son otras actividades intelectuales y profesionales. Se presentan unas consideraciones acerca de la evaluación concreta de la investigación en las Ciencias Sociales, en contraste con las evaluaciones habituales de las Ciencias Experimentales y de la Salud. Los indicadores son...

In teaching some subjects, conveying complexity can be a great challenge, requiring socio-historical, philosophical, and practical contextualisation in diverse settings. This is especially important in disciplines like the health sciences where the objectives involve the practical application of knowledge as well as theoretical analyses. Health pro...

Advances in scientific knowledge during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries resulted in the disassociation of the humanities from the sciences. The medical sciences were no exception. However, recent decades have seen a growing interest in closing the breach between medicine and the humanities as well as a growing recognition of the usefulness...

La indústria farmacèutica (IF) és un important proveïdor d'informació i documentació mèdica. La Informació Mèdica (IM) és una activitat necessària per tal que els medicaments i productes sanitaris comercialitzats per la IF s'utilitzin de forma segura i eficaç. És una funció que proporciona informació precisa, equilibrada, actualitzada i objectiva a...

La indústria farmacèutica (IF) és un important proveïdor d'informació i documentació mèdica. La Informació Mèdica (IM) és una activitat necessària per tal que els medicaments i productes sanitaris comercialitzats per la IF s'utilitzin de forma segura i eficaç. És una funció que proporciona informació precisa, equilibrada, actualitzada i objectiva a...

The medical information (MI) function within the pharmaceutical industry plays a significant role in the provision of scientific answers for patients and healthcare professionals. The purpose of this study is to identify the current structure, organization, and functions of MI departments in Spain. Sixty local and international pharmaceutical compa...

Background Advances in biomedicine can substantially change human life. However, progress is not always followed by ethical reflection on its consequences or scientists’ responsibility for their creations. The humanities can help health sciences students learn to critically analyse these issues; in particular, literature can aid discussions about e...

Two hundred years after it was first published, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein; or, the modern Prometheus remains relevant. This novel has endured because of its literary merits and because its themes lend themselves to analysis from multiple viewpoints. Scholars from many disciplines have examined this work in relation to controversial scientific res...

Introducción y objetivos: Felipe Trigo (1864-1916) fue uno de los médicos escritores más importantes de la época de la Restauración borbónica. Fue médico rural y médico militar pero fue especialmente conocido por su obra literaria y periodística. Material y métodos: Entre sus obras más importantes figuran El médico rural (1912) y Jarrapellejos (19...

Over the years, the way medical dramas represent health professionals has changed. When the first medical dramas were broadcasted, the main characters were good, peaceful, intelligent, competent, empathic, and successful physicians. One of the most famous, even outside the US, was Marcus Welby M.D. (1969-1976) of David Victor –which this year marks...

In the last decades, the interest of literary works as an element to enhance the knowledge in the subjective issues of disease process has increased. Moreover, its pedagogical value in the teaching of health science students has been recognized to allow a better understanding of how patients feel their disease. The works of physicians-writers have...

To the Editor We read with interest the recently published Perspective by Taran and Detsky¹ that explored how diagnosing disease may be thought of in similar terms as interpreting modern art. The authors compared diagnosing with the experience of finding paintings’ meaning through the impressions that Catalan painter Joan Miró’s paintings Bleu I, B...

Introduction: The use of medical metaphors is common in the social discourse and in the media. However, the use by physicians themselves to define different concepts to the original meaning of the medical word is rare. Aim: To analyze the term «scotoma» in its metaphorical sense in the works of the neurologist and writer Oliver Sacks. Developme...

La industria farmacéutica (IF) es un importante proveedor de información y documentación médica. La Información Médica (IM) es una actividad necesaria para que los medicamentos y productos sanitarios comercializados por las empresas farmacéuticas se utilicen de forma segura y eficaz. Por este motivo, la IF debe proporcionar información fiable, prec...

Recent years have seen an increase in the interest for the use of literature in the medical context with different objectives. First of all, its use as a pedagogical tool for medicine students made it possible to improve necessary professional competencies that were difficult to achieve with traditional biologist education. Secondly, patients’ acco...

OBJETIVO: a falta de una legislación específica, el Grupo de Trabajo de Información Médica de la Asociación de Medicina de la Industria Farmacéutica en España se planteó la importancia de definir y orientar las obligaciones y actividades de información médica en la industria farmacéutica. Aunque existen algunas guías internacionales, se consideró i...

La indústria farmacèutica (IF) és un important proveïdor d’informació i documentació mèdica. La Informació Mèdica (IM) és una activitat necessària per tal que els medicaments i productes sanitaris comercialitzats per les empreses farmacèutiques s’utilitzin de forma segura i eficaç. Per aquest motiu, han de proporcionar informació fiable, precisa, e...

Introduction: The pharmaceutical industry has become one of the leading providers of medical information (MI) services. Objective: The objective of this study was to identify the structure, organization and functions of MI departments in Spain. Methods: Local and international pharmaceutical companies based in Spain were invited to participate in...

Introduction – The pharmaceutical industry, in Spain, is one of the leading providers of Medical Information services. Deeply committed to this service, the Medical Information Specialists (TIM, for its acronym in Spanish) are lacking of an ethical framework to guide their activity and ensure the quality, equity and balance of information provided...

Background: The goals of the present work were to retrieve the scientific articles published on addiction to the Internet, video games, and cell phones and to analyze the pattern of publications in this area (who is doing the research, when and where it is taking place, and in which journals it is being published), to determine the research being...

It was a tradition in the Spanish universities of the seventeenth century that the start of academic activities included a ceremony in which an outstanding teacher of the institution delivered an address, an oration. This lecture had the name of Oracion Inaugural and its aim was to allow the professor to instruct the students in the importance of t...

In recent years the use of work-based assessments has been increasingly recommended to evaluate clinical skills, as they allow for the evaluation of performance in the context of clinical practice. Among these tools, one of the most recommended is the Mini Clinical Evaluation Exercise (mini-CEX). This method was developed to be used in physicians-i...

The importance of humanities in the medical training is commonly recognized and it has been suggested that its implementation in the medical curricula as literature and medicine courses. In spite of its viability, there is often difficult to include specific subjects in the already crowded medical curricula. Therefore, it has been suggested the use...

Introduction: Popular medical literature attempts to discuss medical topics using a language that is, as far as possible, free of all medical jargon so as to make it more easily understandable by the general public. The very complexity of neurology makes it more difficult for the stories dealing with this specialty to be understood easily by an au...

L'ús de gestors de referències com RefWorks agilitza el treball dels autors però el seu ús en castellà presenta dificultats a causa de la seva construcció original en anglès. Per això, un dels formats de RefWorks s'ha adaptat a les normes gramaticals i ortogràfiques del castellà i s'ha posat a disposició de la comunitat científica.Th...

El uso de gestores de referencias como RefWorks agiliza el trabajo de los autores pero su uso en castellano presenta dificultades debido a su construcción original en inglés. Por ello, uno de los formatos de RefWorks ha sido adaptado a las normas gramaticales y ortográficas del castellano y se ha puesto a disposición de la comunidad científica.The...

The aim of this study was to locate the scientific literature dealing with addiction to the Internet, video games, and cell phones and to characterize the pattern of publications in these areas. One hundred seventy-nine valid articles were retrieved from PubMed and PsycINFO between 1996 and 2005 related to pathological Internet, cell phone, or vide...

Low-dose aspirin is standard treatment for patients with a history of cardiovascular disease. Its use in primary prevention is more controversial. However, recent studies also support the use of aspirin in high-risk individuals with no history of cardiovascular disease. This study investigated the health economic implications of using low-dose aspi...

Introduction and objectives Low-dose aspirin is standard treatment for patients with a history of cardiovascular disease. Its use in primary prevention is more controversial. However, recent studies also support the use of aspirin in high-risk individuals with no history of cardiovascular disease. This study investigated the health economic implica...

Objetivo: Analizar la produccion cientifica sobre dependencia de drogas (DD). Metodo: Se analizaron los articulos espanoles sobre DD publicados en 1976-2000 indizados en PsycINFO y se comparo con la produccion de los otros paises miembros de la Union Europea (UE) en 2000. Resultados y Discusion: PsycINFO es util para comparar paises porque incluye...

Objective: To analyse scientific literature on drug dependence (DD). Method: Spanish articles about DD published in 1976-2000 as indexed by PsycINFO were analysed, and compared with the rest of European Union (EU) countries in 2000. Results and Discussion: PsycINFO is useful to compare countries because it includes the name of institution and count...

Alcohol and drug misuse is a social and health phenomenon of great relevance in the European Union (EU). One indicator of scientific production in a given area is the analysis of publications included in bibliographic databases. Scientific production on alcohol and drug misuse was analysed in EU member countries, and comparisons were made between c...

The lack of a Catalan glossary or a technical dictionary in the field of medical literature and furthermore in the research of medicines and clinical pharmacology frequently leads to problems in the use of Catalan in these areas. The essay describes the process in which a list containing some of these words, mostly of English origin, was normalised...

A database for the identification and evaluation of the secundary diffusion of journals on the Human and Social Sciences is presented.

El profesional de la información, v. 12, n. 6, noviembre-diciembre 2003 494 LA UTILIZACIÓN DE IN-TERNET por parte de los médi-cos ha dado lugar a la realiza-ción de estudios de diversos ti-pos en los últimos años. En mar-zo de 2003 se publicó un intere-sante informe que analiza en profundidad los hábitos de los médicos europeos y su adapta-ción a e...

Science fascinated the great surrealist, who combined it with angels and allegories.

To analyze articles on neonatal pain indexed in MEDLINE from 1965 to 1999. Papers published since 1965 and indexed in Medline (PubMed ) were considered. The search strategy was: 'pain' (MeSH terms) OR 'pain' (Title word) OR 'pain' (All Fields), AND 'infant, newborn' (MeSH terms). After the search was completed, a printed copy of the references was...

Background: Pharmacology is a bio-medical science of great transcendence, whose development has direct repercussions on the population's well being. The objective of this work was to analyze the characteristics and the temporal evolution of pharmacology and medication books' publishing in Spain for the period 1974- 1998. Methods: There were studied...

Introduccion. Se han realizado estudios que analizan los articulos cientificos espanoles publicados en el area de la dependencia de drogas, pero en ellos no se incluian los libros. Se estudio la publicacion de libros en Espana sobre este tema. Material y metodos. Se identificaron los libros incluidos en la base de datos de la Agencia Espanola ISBN...

Introduction. Analyses of Spanish scientific articles dealing with drug dependence have been done but publication of books has not been included in those studies. The goal of this study was to analyse books published in this field in Spain. Material and Methods. Books indexed in the ISBN Spanish database dealing with drug dependence were included i...

Results from some studies suggest that acarbose could reduce insulin dosage in Type 2 insulin-requiring diabetic patients but few data are available. A multicentre, double blind, randomised, placebo controlled study was performed to evaluate the maximum insulin dose reduction achieved when 100 mg x 3 of acarbose is added to the treatment of Type 2...

Few authors have examined the publication of medical books. Our aim was to analyze the nature of books published in Spain on anesthesiology and recovery. Books listed by the Spanish ISBN agency were selected if they included anestesi* or reanima* in any field. Duplicates were removed. Multiple editions or references were considered single books, wi...

Tobacco dependence, considered for a long time as a habit and, more recently, as an addiction, has many bad effects in health. The objective of this study was to analyse books published in this field in Spain. Books indexed in the ISBN Spanish database in CD-ROM (updated to 1993) dealing with addiction to tobacco, that included one of the following...