Francisco Barbosa Junior

• Master of Public Health
• University of São Paulo

The objective of this study was to analyze the association between temperature and humidity, in relation to deaths from cardiovascular and pulmonary diseases in the municipality of Ribeirão Preto, SP, in 2019, projecting future scenarios of these variables. An ecological study was carried out in which deaths were classified according to Chapters IX...

Population aging generated changes in the epidemiological profile and culminated in a high frequency of diseases. The objective of this study was estimating the prevalence of multimorbidity and the associated variables in the elderly of an educational program in the Federal District of Brazil. This is a cross-sectional study with data collection ca...

O aumento das doenças crônicas não transmissíveis relacionado ao envelhecimento populacional é um notório problema de saúde pública. Logo, ampliam-se as discussões acerca do acesso aos medicamentos a fim de garantir o cuidado integral. Neste contexto, o objetivo deste estudo foi estimar a prevalência de acesso aos medicamentos para a hipertensão ar...

Introduction Preterm birth is a leading cause of perinatal morbidity and mortality. During the COVID-19 pandemic, reduction in rates of preterm birth in women exposed to viral mitigation measures was reported by multiple studies. In addition, others and we observed a more pronounced reduction of preterm birth in women who had previously experienced...

Introdução: A telefarmácia corresponde à prática da farmácia clínica apropriando-se das tecnologias da informação e comunicação, incluindo, as orientações acerca do uso racional de medicamentos, o gerenciamento da farmacoterapia, o monitoramento do paciente e a educação em saúde. O emprego da telefarmácia obteve aumento expressivo na pandemia de Co...

O objetivo foi analisar o perfil das pessoas com diabetes que utilizaram a telefarmácia na pandemia de covid-19. Trata-se de um estudo transversal com dados oriundos da websurvey DIABETESvid que ocorreu nos meses de setembro e outubro de 2020. Verificou-se que 45 participantes recorreram à telefarmácia, sendo que 55,6% eram do sexo masculino, 42,2%...

This work aimed to study the role of different SARS-CoV-2 lineages in the epidemiology of multiple waves of the COVID-19 pandemic in Ribeirão Preto (São Paulo state), with comparison within Brazil and globally. Viral genomic sequencing was combined with clinical and sociodemographic information of 2,379 subjects at a large Brazilian hospital. On th...

Clinical research outcomes depend on the correct definition of the research protocol, the data collection strategy, and the data management plan. Furthermore, researchers often need to work within challenging contexts, as is the case in tuberculosis services, where human and technological resources for research may be scarce. Electronic Data Captur...

O acesso aos medicamentos para o diabetes é fundamental para o controle da doença. Contudo, o distanciamento social na pandemia de COVID-19 pode ter limitado a provisão de medicamentos e insumos. Assim, o objetivo deste estudo foi analisar as fontes de obtenção dos medicamentos para o diabetes na pandemia de COVID-19 no Brasil. Os dados são oriundo...

O acesso aos medicamentos para o diabetes é fundamental para o controle da doença. Contudo, o distanciamento social na pandemia de COVID-19 pode ter limitado a provisão de medicamentos e insumos. Assim, o objetivo deste estudo foi analisar as fontes de obtenção dos medicamentos para o diabetes na pandemia de COVID-19 no Brasil. Os dados são oriundo...

Contexto: A Peritonite Bacteriana Espontânea (PBE) é uma complicação grave e frequente entre pacientes cirróticos com ascite, diagnosticada por meio da análise citológica do líquido ascítico. A cultura microbiológica do líquido ascítico, por sua vez, é positiva em menos de 40% dos casos de PBE, o que resulta frequentemente na instituição de terapia...

We conducted a prospective cohort study in a population with diverse ethnic backgrounds from Brazil to assess clinically meaningful symptoms after surviving coronavirus disease. For most of the 175 patients in the study, clinically meaningful symptoms, including fatigue, dyspnea, cough, headache, and muscle weakness, persisted for >120 days after d...

Objective : To evaluate the impact of providing dental care to critically ill patients on their risk of death and ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP). Methods : A quasi-experimental study was conducted in two intensive care units (ICU) from 2016 to 2019. The intervention consisted of implementing routine dental care, focusing on oral hygiene and...

Brazil is a large developing country that requires attention to regionalized behaviors regarding the dissemination of COVID-19. To deal with this complexity, the COVID-19 Brazil observatory was developed. The Portal aims to monitor and analyze data from different sources. Therefore, with a detailed audit, we centralized this information on the evol...

The outcomes of a clinical research directly depend on the correct definition of the research protocol, the data collection strategy and the data management plan. Furthermore, researchers often need to work within challenging contexts, such as in Tuberculosis services, where human and technological resources for research may be rare. The use of Ele...

Abstract Background The world guidance on the measures of social distancing for prevention of COVID-19 has changed the daily habits of great part of the population, and this could influence the care and resilience with diabetes during situations of adversity. This study aimed at assessing the characteristics of diabetic individuals and self-care pr...

Aim To describe Brazilian web survey methods termed DIABETESvid by assessing the diabetic individuals’ self-care practices and their resilience in the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods This is a cross-sectional study on data collected from web surveys in the period between 1st September and 19th October 2020, in which socio-demographic, clinical, self-ca...

Background: The outcomes of a clinical research directly depend on the correct definition of the research protocol, the data collection strategy and the data management plan. Furthermore, researchers often need to work within challenging contexts, such as in Tuberculosis services, where human and technological resources for research may be rare. Th...

The outcomes of a clinical research directly depend on the correct definition of the research protocol, the data collection strategy and the data management plan. Furthermore, researchers often need to work within challenging contexts, such as in Tuberculosis services, where human and technological resources for research may be rare. The use of Ele...

Introduction: Five months after the first confirmed case of COVID-19 in Brazil, the country has the second highest number of cases in the world. Without any scientifically proven drug or vaccine available combined with COVID-19's high transmissivity, slowing down the spread of the infection is a challenge. In an attempt to save the economy, the Bra...

Background: The partner has an important role when he participates of the prenatal care as showed in the positive results relate to the mother and the child health. For this reason it is an important strategy to bring future fathers closer to health services and to improve their link with paternity. Aim: To evaluate whether the implementation of...

Figure S1. The analysis flowchart.

Box S1. Sample Size calculation. Box S2. The J statistic in the ROC space

Video S1. All women and perinatal outcome

Table S1. Calculation of diagnostic accuracy statistics. Table S2. Equivalence of diagnostic accuracy statistics. Table S3. Suggested interpretation of diagnostic accuracy statistics. Table S4. Distribution of the study population according to obstetric groups and the frequency of severe adverse birth outcomes. Table S5. Diagnostic accuracy of...

Introduction Business process management has gained importance in organizations for providing improved productivity and cost reduction, with process modeling being the central role. Usually, with reduced resources, the health area can benefit from good management of its processes. Objective To identify proposals for improvements in the process of...

Objective: To assess the accuracy of the World Health Organization (WHO) partograph alert line and other candidate predictors in the identification of women at risk of developing severe adverse birth outcomes. Design: A facility-based, multicentre, prospective cohort study. Setting: Thirteen maternity hospitals located in Nigeria and Uganda....

Objective: this study aims to describe the development process of a web-based tool, capable of managing and delivering content through short message service (SMS) to pregnant women and their partners during antenatal and postnatal care (PRENACEL strategy). Methods: We used software engineer best practices to implement an adequate tool for PRENACEL...

Resumo: Este artigo apresenta a ferramenta de análise de Perfil Nosológico presente no Portal ORAH-Obser-vatório Regional de Atenção Hospitalar. Esta ferramenta oferece subsídios que podem facilitar o preenchimento de informações necessárias para a confecção de Mapas Regionais de Saúde e são de importância para orientar a gestão de saúde em rede. A...

Resumo: Observatório Regional de Atenção Hospitalar-ORAH tem como principal objetivo garantir que as informações em saúde e, sobretudo, as informações sobre assistência hospitalar ganhem em qualidade com desdobramentos para a assistência, gestão e pesquisa em saúde sendo um de seus produtos um Portal Web. Para sistemas que possuem uma grande divers...

Resumo: Este artigo apresenta a ferramenta de análise de Perfil Nosológico presente no Portal ORAH-Observatório Regional de Atenção Hospitalar. Esta ferramenta oferece subsídios que podem facilitar o preenchimento de informações necessárias para a confecção de Mapas Regionais de Saúde e são de importância para orientar a gestão de saúde em rede. Al...

Resumo: O processamento de dados hospitalares tem uma grande importância no que diz respeito à tomadas de decisão em organizações de saúde. Profissionais desta área podem se valer de ferramentas que facilitam a análise desses dados. Sob tal ponto de vista, esse artigo mostra alguns aspectos do Portal ORAH-Observatório Regional de Atenção Hospitalar...

Resumo: O processamento de dados hospitalares tem uma grande importância no que diz respeito à tomadas de decisão em organizações de saúde. Profissionais desta área podem se valer de ferramentas que facilitam a análise desses dados. Sob tal ponto de vista, esse artigo mostra alguns aspectos do Portal ORAH -Observatório Regional de Atenção Hospitala...