Jose William Martinez

• PhD Epidemiology
• Researcher at Technological University of Pereira

Objective: To describe microbiological characteristics of infections in pediatric patients with cancer in a reference center of the Colombian coffee region, 2014-2016. Materials and methods. Cross-sectional, descriptive study including underaged oncological inpatients managed in a reference institution in Colombia; who have been dated an infection...

Objetivo: Verificación del desempeño de las pruebas serológicas rápidas utilizadas en el departamento de Risaralda, Colombia. Métodos: Estudio analitico, de corte transversal. Incluyó muestras de sueros de trabajadores de la salud de la ciudad de Pereira, quienes tuvieron sospecha clínica y epidemiológica por SARS-CoV-2. El procesamiento y validac...

Objetivo: analizar las características epidemiológicas, clínicas y bacteriológicas que influyen en la supervivencia de los pacientes con neoplasias hematológicas que desarrollaron neutropenia febril posterior a quimioterapia. Materiales y métodos: estudio de corte transversal que incluyó adultos con diagnóstico de neoplasias hematológicas que pres...

Objective: We aimed to describe the microbiological characteristics of infections in patients from an oncological center during 2.014-2.016. Methods: In this cross-sectional descriptive study, a total of 7.837 cultures corresponding to 1.216 patients were included. Microbiological and sociodemographic data were taken from cancer diagnosed patients...

Objectives To describe the sociodemographic and clinical characteristics of a cohort of patients with epilepsy from a reference centre in Colombia. Methods Cross-sectional study including patients diagnosed with epilepsy who attended our epilepsy centre (Neurocentro) between 2013 and 2016. Data were gathered from patients’ medical histories. Resu...

Objective To determine the quality of life related to health and its related factors in patients diagnosed with rotator cuff lesions in the Municipality of Pereira, Colombia, 2013. Methods Cross-sectional study. Simple random sampling of 239 patients over 18 years of age attended at five health care institutions in the urban area of Pereira. Socio...

Resumen Objetivo Determinar la Calidad de Vida Relacionada con la Salud y sus factores relacionados en pacientes diagnosticados con lesiones de manguito rotador del Municipio de Pereira, Colombia, 2013. Métodos Estudio de corte transversal. Muestreo aleatorio simple de 239 pacientes mayores de 18 años atendidos en cinco Instituciones Prestadoras...

Introducción: La depresión en adolescentes es un problema silente de salud mundial, la cual, en ausencia de tratamiento, tiene efectos deletéreos en la salud física, bienestar psicosocial y rendimiento académico. Se requiere la validación de un instrumento que pueda emplearse como tamizaje en población adolescente, que permita conocer la prevalenci...

Aim: To identify predictors of seizure related injuries in adult patients with epilepsy in Colombia. Subjects and methods: Case-control study. Patients with a diagnosis of epilepsy aged 16 years and older who attended the Neurocentro epilepsy center between 2013-2016 and were attended by a specialist in epilepsy were included. Patients with seiz...

Objectives: To describe the sociodemographic and clinical characteristics of a cohort of patients with epilepsy from a reference centre in Colombia. Methods: Cross-sectional study including patients diagnosed with epilepsy who attended our epilepsy centre (Neurocentro) between 2013 and 2016. Data were gathered from patients' medical histories....

The following research supports its bases in the necessity of dependable epidemiological data corresponding to population reality in the western center region of our country, in order to clarify the public health outlook for cirrhosis, understanding it as an associated condition with multiple influencing factors, both in its origin and its developm...

Falla cardíaca avanzada en pacientes tratados con dispositivos electrofisiológicos en una unidad de electrofisología, Pereira (Colombia) Resumen: la falla cardíaca avanzada es una enfermedad prevalente, con una tasa alta de mortalidad y hospitalización con relación a su estadio y perfil clínico, que cuesta en Norteamérica hasta el 20% de los recurs...

Objective: To assess the level of self-esteem of adolescents in a rural school of a district of Pereira. Methods: Students were called upon to participate, 292 agreed to undergo the test, while 20 abstained. Results: After a previous reliability test analysis, we found that 47.9% of students had low and very low self esteem. A multivariate mod...

Objective: Evaluating the degree of knowledge about informed consent in patients agreeing to elective general surgery (by signing the aforementioned informed consent form) in the operating rooms of the San Jorge teaching hospital in Pereira. Methods: Two measurement instruments were used with 59 patients prior to their undergoing surgery in the...

Introduction: Colombia is experiencing an aging of its population. In Risaralda the population over 65 years of age by the year 2005 was 63,668, according to projections by DANE for the year 2010 it was 73,510. Students and faculty from different programs of the Technological University of Pereira, have been engaged in a variety of actions in order...

Colombia vive un fenómeno de envejecimiento de la población. En Risaralda, la población mayor de 65 años de edad que para el 2005 era de 63.668 personas, según proyecciones del DANE, para el 2010 fue de 73.510. La Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira, estudiantes y profesores de diferentes programas han venido ofreciendo una variedad de acciones, con...

Introduction: community intervention and social work in vulnerable populations are initiatives led by the urge to research the health impact of various students' scientific societies.

Objective Determining Technological University of Pereira employees' cardiovascular risk from Framingham tables. Methodology The International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ), a survey of cardiovascular risk, blood, anthropometric and physiological tests were all applied to 138 randomly selected men and women who were employed by the Technol...

Introduction: during the investigation process for the prevention of non-transmissible chronic diseases conducted at the Universidad Tecnologica de Pereira, the teaching and administrative population was characterized in terms of their practice of regular physical activity. Methods: the study of a descriptive character, evaluated a sample of men an...

We conducted a three-arm cluster randomized controlled trial (n = 2491) to evaluate a teacher delivered intervention to reduce aggressive and antisocial behavior and increase prosocial behavior in the classroom. A second aim of this trial was to establish whether combining this intervention with an intervention for parents was better than the teach...

Introducción: La calidad de vida de los cuidadores de ancianos puede verse alterada por la exposición laboral que representa la atención de adultos mayores. Estas alteraciones pueden no ser percibidas por los trabajadores ni sus familias. Método: Se aplicaron test de calidad vida y adaptación social a los cuidadores de adultos mayores en centros de...

Background: Helicobacter pylori antimicrobial resistance rates differ among countries and even between different areas of a country. In Colombia, the most commonly used antimicrobials for the treatment of H pylori infection are amoxicillin, clarithromycin and metronidazole. Aim: To determine antimicrobial susceptibility of H pylori strains isolated...

Helicobacter pylori antimicrobial resistance rates differ among countries and even between different areas of a country. In Colombia, the most commonly used antimicrobials for the treatment of H pylori infection are amoxicillin, clarithromycin and metronidazole. To determine antimicrobial susceptibility of H pylori strains isolated in Colombia. Eig...

Introduction: the respiratory diseases are one of the main pathologies that affect children under five years old worldwide, and one of the main causes of mortality and morbidity among children in Latin America. The objective of this descriptive study is to identify the risk for these respiratory disorders in schoolchildren. Methods: clinical evalua...

Introduction: Aggressiveness in children during their school period is a condition related to delinquency during their adolescence and adulthood. Persistently aggressive children up to the age of 10 are associated with difficult life conditions such as: becoming school dropouts, premature sexuality, promiscuity, alcohol consumption and a greater di...

The nutritional conditions of the individual should be considered as a situation that is part of a context, where multiple factors interact, such as, employment, education, income, propaganda, the health and quality of life of the people; elements that rebound considerably on the integral functioning of the child and later on his adult stage.The pu...

The diabetes Mellitus and the obstructive chronic lung disease, EPOC (OCLD), are part of the pathologies that have been classically defined as degenerative and chronic. The mortality in Risaralda reports the OCLD as being systematically among the first three causes of demise in the series since 1997. The tendency is towards the descent, while the m...

BACKGROUND: The Instituto Municipal de Salud de Pereira, reported in 2003, an increase of level in tuberculosis (TB). This increase was hypothetically related with AIDS in Pereira. METHODS: All of the patients with TB in public hospitals were examined with Elisa test and Western Blot test. This research lasted 5 months. Since patients’ records were...

Introducción: El Instituto Municipal de Salud de Pereira informó en el año 2003 un aumento en los niveles de tuberculosis. Hipotéticamente se relacionó con la infección por VIH en Pereira. Métodos: Se llevó a cabo un estudio que tomó todos los pacientes con diagnóstico de tuberculosis en la red pública de atención primaria durante un período de 5 m...

This study establishes the prevalence of mental disease, homicide and the relationship to Antisocial Personality Disorder in a group of condemned subjects in jail La Cuarenta in Pereira - Colombia. For such effect, we took the listing of condemned by attempt and/or homicide (N=140) and we consulted the sentences. A semi structured psychiatric evalu...

In 1995, the first Venezuelan equine encephalitis (VEE) outbreak in Colombia in 22 years caused an estimated 75,000 human cases, 3000 with neurologic complications and 300 fatal, in La Guajira State. Of the state's estimated 50,000 equines, 8% may have died. An epizootic IC virus, probably introduced from Venezuela, was rapidly amplified among unva...