II Serie Volume 33 Number 7-8 July-August 2020
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The new SARS-CoV-2 pandemic is an example of an international public health emergency, which is associated with considerable social and economic challenges. At the healthcare level there is the risk that nosocomi...
Introduction: Technical skills training is fundamental for clinical practice although poorly emphasised in undergraduate medical curricula. In these circumstances, Peer Assisted Learning methodol...
Nogueira et al showed a counterintuitive consequence of Portugal’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic: the non-COVID-19 excess mortality outnumbered the COVID-19 mortality. As international experts have warned, t...
We are grateful for the interest and comments of our recently published study on excess mortality estimation during the COVID-19 pandemic in Portugal. The aim of our investigation was essentially to be factual ...
The COVID-19 crisis has underlined just how fast and open science publishing can be — when scientists want it that way. Researchers working on the pandemic are sharing preliminary results on preprint servers and institutional websites at unprecedented rates, embracing the kind of early, pub...
"Scientific journals provide an important platform for guided scientific discussions and serve as repositories for scientific knowledge that should inform decision-making, improve clinical practice, and ultimately the health of the population. Scientific journals have already published tens ...
The idea of RIAT was born in a specific time period: the early part of this decade. This was when we started realising that clinical trials published in traditional biomedical journals were in the best case scenario extreme summaries of clinical study reports and other documents which contained e...
Retraction Watch readers are no doubt familiar with one of the most consequential retractions of this century, namely that of the 1998 paper in The Lancet by Andrew Wakefield and others claiming a link between vaccines and autism. What they may also know is that the paper remains one of the most ...
Imagine a world where society has the high-quality evidence it needs to make informed decisions about crime, health and education. What action can researchers, universities, funders and governments take to get us there?
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Introduction: Technical skills training is fundamental for clinical practice although poorly emphasised in undergraduate medical curricula. In these circumstances, Peer Assisted Learning methodology has emerged as a valid alternative to overcome this insufficiency. The ...
We are grateful for the interest and comments of our recently published study on excess mortality estimation during the COVID-19 pandemic in Portugal. The aim of our investigation was essentially to be factual about the observed excess all-cause mortality. Therefore, in our paper we separa...
O impacto da pandemia pela COVID-19 é transversal a todas as áreas médicas, influenciando significativamente a prática clínica e, ainda mais importante, a saúde e qualidade de vida dos doentes. Na área da Medicina Física e de Reabilit...
A 28-year-old woman presented with a 2-year history of a slow-growing, non-tender and pulsatile mass in the right carotid bifurcation. The computed tomography study revealed the hypervascular characteristics of paraganglioma (PGL): a well-circumscribed expansile mass with intense contrast enhance...
