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28/Mar/2025
DOI: 10.31744/einstein_journal/2025AO1132
Highlights ■ Most outpatient consultations comprised diagnostic procedures. ■ In the past 12 years, medical care for benign breast diseases has cost >USD 65 million. ■ Women from North and Midwest Brazil had higher diagnosis and treatment displacement rates. ABSTRACT Objective: To quantitatively and geospatially analyze coverage and displacement for the diagnosis and treatment of benign breast diseases in the Brazilian Unified Health System between 2008 and 2019. Methods: Datasets from the Brazilian Ministry of Health were used to survey […]
Keywords: Brazil; Breast diseases; Breast neoplasms; Demography; Epidemiology; Health expenditures; Healthcare costs; Hospitalization; Incidence; Primary healthcare; Public health; Strategy planning; Unified Health System
25/Sep/2024
DOI: 10.31744/einstein_journal/2024AO0687
ABSTRACT Highlights Renal involvement was frequent in patients with COVID-19 and related to worse outcomes. Diuretic use, mechanical ventilation, proteinuria, hematuria, age, and creatine phosphokinase and D-dimer levels were risk factors for acute kidney injury. Acute kidney injury, mechanical ventilation, elevated SOFA Score, and elevated ATN-ISS were associated with mortality. The second wave was associated with greater severity; however, the mortality rates were similar between the two periods. This may reflect the effectiveness of vaccines and the constant learning that […]
Keywords: Acute kidney injury; Brazil; Coronavirus infections; COVID-19; Incidence; Mortality; Prognosis; Receptor cross-talk