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  1. Associations of medicine use and ejection fraction with the coexistence of frailty and sarcopenia in a sample of heart failure outpatients: a cross-sectional study
  2. Spatial distribution and determinants of tuberculosis incidence in Mozambique: a nationwide Bayesian disease mapping study.
  3. Portuguese Heart Failure Prevalence Observational Study (PORTHOS) rationale and design – A population-based study
  4. A randomized controlled trial to assess the impact of psychoeducation on the quality of life of parents with children with congenital heart defects—Quantitative component
  5. Predictors of early and long-term mortality after ICU discharge in critically ill COVID-19 patients: A prospective cohort study
  6. Occurrence and predictors of delirium in critically ill older patients: a prospective cohort study
  7. Essential Trace Elements Status in Portuguese Pregnant Women and Their Association with Maternal and Neonatal Outcomes: A Prospective Study from the IoMum Cohort
  8. Performance-Related Pain Among Musicians Questionnaire (PPAM): Multicenter Validation of the First Questionnaire to Evaluate Performance-Related Pain Among Musicians With Different Musical Backgrounds
  9. Development and Initial Validation of the First Questionnaire to Evaluate Performance-related Pain Among Musicians with Different Backgrounds: Performance-related Pain Among Musicians Questionnaire (PPAM)
  10. Improving the quality of life of parents of patients with congenital abnormalities using psychoeducational interventions: a systematic review
  11. Radiation protection measures used in Portuguese interventional radiology departments: A national survey
  12. Socioeconomic Inequalities and Predictors of Cardiac Rehabilitation Referral: Real World Evidence
  13. Modulating Influence of State Anxiety on the Effect of Midazolam on Postsurgical Pain
  14. Development and validation of an electronic daily control score for asthma (e-DASTHMA): a real-world direct patient data study
  15. Association of 3-Phenoxybenzoic Acid Exposure during Pregnancy with Maternal Outcomes and Newborn Anthropometric Measures: Results from the IoMum Cohort Study
  16. An Overview of Methods to Characterize Skin Type: Focus on Visual Rating Scales and Self-Report Instruments
  17. Frailty phenotype in heart failure: A condition that transcends age
  18. Effectiveness of Exercise-Based Cardiac Rehabilitation for Heart Transplant Recipients: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
  19. Semi-Competing Risks Model Applied in the Study of Diabetic Foot Disease: A Ten-Year Follow-Up
  20. The Portuguese version of the musculoskeletal pain intensity and interference questionnaire for musicians (MPIIQM‐Pt): Translation, cultural adaptation, and multicenter validation study in professional orchestra musicians
  21. Service provision of genetics health care in Portugal
  22. Association between Elevated Iodine Intake and IQ among School Children in Portugal
  23. Statins are associated with reduced likelihood of sarcopenia in a sample of heart failure outpatients: a cross-sectional study
  24. Noncompliance to iodine supplementation recommendation is a risk factor for iodine insufficiency in Portuguese pregnant women: results from the IoMum cohort
  25. Allergen immunotherapy in MASK‐air users in real‐life: Results of a Bayesian mixed‐effects model
  26. Seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 and assessment of epidemiologic determinants in Portuguese municipal workers
  27. Development and validation of combined symptom‐medication scores for allergic rhinitis*
  28. Interventions for improving recovery from work
  29. Clinical ABCDE rule for early melanoma detection
  30. Pain as the fifth vital sign—A comparison between public and private healthcare systems
  31. Quality of life of parents with children with congenital abnormalities: a systematic review with meta-analysis of assessment methods and levels of quality of life
  32. Quality by design (QbD) optimization of diazepam-loaded nanostructured lipid carriers (NLC) for nose-to-brain delivery: Toxicological effect of surface charge on human neuronal cells
  33. Patterns of dosage regimen instructions regarding topical medicines: how is the information perceived by patients?
  34. Time-trends and predictors of interhospital transfers and 30-day rehospitalizations after acute coronary syndrome from 2000-2015
  35. Impact in the quality of life of parents of children with chronic diseases using psychoeducational interventions – A systematic review with meta-analysis
  36. Frailty phenotype and associated nutritional factors in a sample of Portuguese outpatients with heart failure
  37. Central Pain in Parkinson’s Disease: Behavioral and Cognitive Characteristics
  38. Blood pressure-lowering treatment for the prevention of cardiovascular events in patients with atrial fibrillation: An individual participant data meta-analysis
  39. Frequency of severe reactions following penicillin drug provocation tests: A Bayesian meta‐analysis
  40. Iodine knowledge is associated with iodine status in Portuguese pregnant women: results from the IoMum cohort study
  41. OCT-angiography detects longitudinal microvascular changes in glaucoma: a systematic review
  42. The association of milk and dairy consumption with iodine status in pregnant women in Oporto region
  43. Effectiveness of Tele-rehabilitation Programs in Heart Failure: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
  44. Children’s performance on Raven’s Coloured progressive matrices in Portugal: The Flynn effect
  45. Accuracy of penicillin allergy diagnostic tests: A systematic review and meta-analysis
  46. Pain as a risk factor for suicidal behavior in older adults: A systematic review
  47. Penicillin allergy testing is cost-saving: An economic evaluation study
  48. Non-Adherence to Pharmacotherapy: A Prospective Multicentre Study About Its Incidence and Its Causes Perceived by Chronic Pain Patients
  49. Internal deterministic record linkage using indirect identifiers for matching of same-patient hospital transfers and early readmissions after acute coronary syndrome in a nationwide hospital discharge database: a retrospective observational validation ...
  50. Screening tests for latent tuberculosis prior to anti-TNF alpha therapy – a systematic review and meta-analysis
  51. Prevalence and determinants of motor stereotypies in autism spectrum disorder: A systematic review and meta-analysis
  52. SmartBEAT: A Smartphone-Based Heart Failure Telemonitoring Solution
  53. PROTOCOL: Psychosocial processes and intervention strategies behind islamist deradicalisation: A scoping review
  54. Daily intake of wheat germ-enriched bread may promote a healthy gut bacterial microbiota: a randomised controlled trial
  55. Determinantes na opinião sobre eutanásia em amostra de médicos portugueses
  56. Sleep disturbances in Parkinson’s disease are associated with central parkinsonian pain
  57. Unveiling the relationship between central parkinsonian pain and motor symptoms in Parkinson's disease
  58. Estimating Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and Motor Neuron Disease Prevalence in Portugal Using a Pharmaco-Epidemiological Approach and a Bayesian Multiparameter Evidence Synthesis Model
  59. Homologous recombination deficiency as prognostic marker in metastatic gastric cancer.
  60. Effects of blood pressure-lowering drugs in heart failure
  61. NT-pro-BNP correlates with disease severity and predicts outcome in cerebral haemorrhage patients: Cohort study
  62. Original Intracerebral Hemorrhage Score for the Prediction of Short-Term Mortality in Cerebral Hemorrhage
  63. Diagnostic performance of optical coherence tomography angiography in glaucoma: a systematic review and meta-analysis
  64. OP04 Turning sweet in inflammatory bowel disease: glycans as novel immunomodulators of T-cell-mediated immune response
  65. Portuguese version of the Medication Adherence Report Scale (MARS‐9): Validation in a population of chronic pain patients
  66. High Prevalence of Human Papillomavirus on Anal and Oral Samples from Men and Women with External Anogenital Warts: The HERCOLES Study
  67. Does intake of bread supplemented with wheat germ have a preventive role on cardiovascular disease risk markers in healthy volunteers? A randomised, controlled, crossover trial.
  68. Depression and heart failure: preliminary findings from the deus ex machina study
  69. A Two-Year Prospective Multicenter Study of Opioid Therapy for Chronic Noncancer Pain: Prescription Trends and Predictors
  70. Effectiveness of opioids for chronic noncancer pain: a two-year multicenter, prospective cohort study with propensity score matching
  71. Prognostic models for intracerebral hemorrhage: systematic review and meta-analysis
  72. The Use of Glycomacropeptide in Patients with Phenylketonuria: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
  73. Assessment and Comparison of the Four Most Extensively Validated Prognostic Scales for Intracerebral Hemorrhage: Systematic Review with Meta-analysis
  74. Prediction of clinical outcomes in individuals with chronic low back pain: a protocol for a systematic review with meta-analysis
  75. A (glyco)biomarker that predicts failure to standard therapy in Ulcerative Colitis patients
  76. The Impact of Anxiety and Depression on the Outcomes of Chronic Low Back Pain Multidisciplinary Pain Management—A Multicenter Prospective Cohort Study in Pain Clinics with One-Year Follow-up
  77. Incidence and Health Related Quality of Life of Opioid-Induced Constipation in Chronic Noncancer Pain Patients: A Prospective Multicentre Cohort Study
  78. Clinical Performance of CAD/CAM Tooth-Supported Ceramic Restorations: A Systematic Review
  79. Web-Based Versus Usual Care and Other Formats of Decision Aids to Support Prostate Cancer Screening Decisions: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
  80. Reply
  81. Physiological and Operative Severity Score for the enumeration of Mortality and Morbidity (POSSUM) System for Outcome Prediction in Elderly Patients Undergoing Major Vascular Surgery
  82. Comparison of graft patency following coronary artery bypass grafting in the left versus the right coronary artery systems: a systematic review and meta-analysis†
  83. Compliance With Guideline-Directed Medical Therapy in Contemporary Coronary Revascularization Trials
  84. Estudo Unicêntrico Prospetivo de Avaliação Sistemática da Dor em Doentes Portugueses com Cancro da Próstata Metastizado
  85. INTERDEM Academy special section: what effect does delirium have on family and nurses of older adult patients?
  86. Cost of asthma in children: A nationwide, population-based, cost-of-illness study
  87. Cost of asthma in Portuguese adults: A population-based, cost-of-illness study
  88. Persistent postoperative pain after cardiac surgery
  89. Implications of comorbidity and acute illness severity in elderly patients with delirium
  90. Web-Based Versus Usual Care and Other Formats of Decision Aids to Support Prostate Cancer Screening Decisions: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis (Preprint)
  91. The Atlantic divide in coronary heart disease: Epidemiology and patient care in the US and Portugal
  92. The Portuguese long version of the Copenhagen Psychosocial Questionnaire II (COPSOQ II) – a validation study
  93. A comparison of in-hospital acute myocardial infarction management between Portugal and the United States: 2000–2010
  94. Epidemiology of human papillomavirus on anogenital warts in Portugal - The HERCOLES study
  95. Bias in valuation of health care benefits in metastatic prostate cancer: A contingent valuation of willingness to pay.
  96. Iodine Status and Iodised Salt Consumption in Portuguese School-Aged Children: The Iogeneration Study
  97. A systematic review of association between pain and suicidal behavior in elderly people
  98. The effect of a test ordering software intervention on the prescription of unnecessary laboratory tests - a randomized controlled trial
  99. Reliability and validity of the Bowel Function Index for evaluating opioid-induced constipation: translation, cultural adaptation and validation of the Portuguese version (BFI-P)
  100. Análise da Revisão Cochrane: fibratos na prevenção secundária de doença cardiovascular e acidente vascular cerebral
  101. Interventional Pain Management in Multidisciplinary Chronic Pain Clinics: A Prospective Multicenter Cohort Study with One-Year Follow-Up
  102. Portuguese Version of the Pain Beliefs and Perceptions Inventory: A Multicenter Validation Study
  103. Single dose versus multiple dose of antibiotic prophylaxis in caesarean section: a systematic review and meta-analysis
  104. Can wheat germ have a beneficial effect on human health? A study protocol for a randomised crossover controlled trial to evaluate its health effects
  105. Helping Decision-Makers Visualize Inequities In Health Impact Assessment: Linked Electronic Records, Mortality And Regional Disparities In Portugal
  106. Análise da Revisão Cochrane: Cromoscopia Versus Colonoscopia Convencional na Deteção de Pólipos ColoRetais. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2016;4:CD006439
  107. Physical activity and exercise for erectile dysfunction: systematic review and meta-analysis
  108. Patients' estimations of the importance of preventive health services: a nationwide, population-based cross-sectional study in Portugal
  109. Persistent Postoperative Pain after Cardiac Surgery: Incidence, Characterization, Associated Factors and its impact in Quality of Life
  110. Asthma-like symptoms, diagnostic tests, and asthma medication use in children and adolescents: a population-based nationwide survey
  111. Microbiology of healthcare-associated infections and the definition accuracy to predict infection by potentially drug resistant pathogens: a systematic review
  112. The Atlantic Divide In Coronary Heart Disease: Health Technologies Use In The Us And Portugal
  113. Asthma control and exacerbations in patients with severe asthma treated with omalizumab in Portugal
  114. Análise da Revisão Cochrane: Erradicação da Helicobacter pylori na Prevenção do Cancro Gástrico. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2015;7:CD005583.
  115. Vulnerability in elderly patients with gastrointestinal cancer – translation, cultural adaptation and validation of the European Portuguese version of the Vulnerable Elders Survey (VES-13)
  116. Asthma control in the Portuguese National Asthma Survey
  117. Asthma control in children is associated with nasal symptoms, obesity, and health insurance: a nationwide survey
  118. High prevalence of hospitalisation for asthma in a population-based paediatric sample: Table 1
  119. The economic impact of chronic pain: a nationwide population-based cost-of-illness study in Portugal
  120. Concomitant Unipolar Radiofrequency Ablation of Nonparoxysmal Atrial Fibrillation in Rheumatic and Degenerative Valve Disease
  121. Response to Nesmith et al
  122. Preventive health services implemented by family physicians in Portugal—a cross-sectional study based on two clinical scenarios
  123. Classification of healthcare-associated infection: a systematic review 10 years after the first proposal
  124. Validation of Control of Allergic Rhinitis and Asthma Test for Children (CARATKids) - a prospective multicenter study
  125. Ophthalmic adverse drug reactions to systemic drugs: a systematic review
  126. Integrative genomic analysis identifies a role for intercellular adhesion molecule 1 in childhood asthma
  127. Operational definitions of asthma in recent epidemiological studies are inconsistent
  128. A population-based study on chronic pain and the use of opioids in Portugal
  129. A Population-Based Nationwide Cross-Sectional Study on Preventive Health Services Utilization in Portugal—What Services (and Frequencies) Are Deemed Necessary by Patients?
  130. Chronic Pain and Health Services Utilization
  131. Poster Sessions
  132. Characterization of acute heart failure hospitalizations in a Portuguese cardiology department
  133. Detection of adverse drug reactions using hospital databases-a nationwide study in Portugal
  134. Prevalência da exposição ao fumo ambiental do tabaco em casa e do tabagismo na população Portuguesa – o estudo INAsma
  135. Response to Yusuf and Watson
  136. Direct Comparison of Cardiac Magnetic Resonance and Multidetector Computed Tomography Stress-Rest Perfusion Imaging for Detection of Coronary Artery Disease
  137. Ophthalmic adverse drug reactions: A nationwide detection using hospital databases
  138. Systematic review of Purtscher’s and Purtscher-like retinopathies
  139. Methodologies for the detection of adverse drug reactions: comparison of hospital databases, chart review and spontaneous reporting
  140. Epidemiology of Chronic Pain: A Population-Based Nationwide Study on Its Prevalence, Characteristics and Associated Disability in Portugal
  141. Frequency of adverse drug reactions in hospitalized patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis
  142. Prevalence of asthma in Portugal - The Portuguese National Asthma Survey
  143. Control of Allergic Rhinitis and Asthma Test (CARAT) can be used to assess individual patients over time
  144. How to write a scientific paper—Writing the methods section
  145. Cardiovascular Risk and Clinical Factors in Athletes
  146. Thematic Poster Sessions - Tuesday
  147. Efficacy of continuing zoledronic acid beyond 24 months in metastatic prostate cancer.
  148. Economic evaluation in cardiology
  149. To publish or perish: How to review a manuscript
  150. A prospective non-randomised study to compare oral trauma from laryngoscope versus laryngeal mask insertion
  151. Possible benefits of strontium ranelate in complicated long bone fractures
  152. Validation of a questionnaire (CARAT10) to assess rhinitis and asthma in patients with asthma
  153. Ulcerative colitis in a Southern European country: A national perspective
  154. Nociceptive behaviour upon modulation of mu-opioid receptors in the ventrobasal complex of the thalamus of rats
  155. Estimating the prevalence of inflammatory bowel disease in Portugal using a pharmaco-epidemiological approach
  156. Immediate and long-term impact of medical emergency teams on cardiac arrest prevalence and mortality: A plea for periodic basic life-support training programs*
  157. Crohnʼs disease in a southern European country: Montreal classification and clinical activity
  158. Control of allergic rhinitis and asthma test – a formal approach to the development of a measuring tool
  159. Validation study of the Camberwell Assessment of Need for the Elderly (CANE) in Portugal
  160. N-Terminal-pro-B Type Natriuretic Peptide as a Useful Tool to Evaluate Pulmonary Hypertension and Cardiac Function in CDH Infants
  161. Reply
  162. 258 Ambulatory monitoring for heart failure patients: it is possible to improve survival and quality of life: a metanalysis of randomized controlled trials
  163. Rosuvastatin Affecting Aortic Valve Endothelium to Slow the Progression of Aortic Stenosis
  164. When (quality of) life is at stake and intensive care is needed: how much can we trust our proxies?
  165. Diet and gastric cancer in Portugal — a multivariate model