- Faculty of Dental Medicine, University of Lisbon, Portugal, and Junior Researcher of the CEAUL Forensic Analysis Group. Orcid Number: 0000-0003-3081-0875, Student of master's in dental medicine.
Publications dans "Soins dentaires pour personnes âgées" :
- Department of Mathematics, School of Technology and Management, Polytechnic of Leiria, Portugal, integrated researcher at the Centre of Statistics and Applications, University of Lisbon (CEAUL), Portugal. Orcid Number 0000 0002 7371 363 X.
Publications dans "Soins dentaires pour personnes âgées" :
Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and Diagnostic Sciences, Division of Oral Pathology, College of Dentistry, Jazan University, Jazan, Saudi Arabia.
Publications dans "Soins dentaires pour personnes âgées" :
Unit of Medical Education, Department of Oral Rehabilitation, Goldschleger School of Dental Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel. Electronic address: niruzi@tauex.tau.ac.il.
Publications dans "Soins dentaires pour personnes âgées" :
VHA Office of Dentistry, Oral Health Quality Group, Washington, DC, USA; Boston University Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine, Boston, MA, USA.
Publications dans "Soins dentaires pour personnes âgées" :
VHA Office of Dentistry, Oral Health Quality Group, Washington, DC, USA; Boston University Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine, Boston, MA, USA.
Publications dans "Soins dentaires pour personnes âgées" :
Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
Center for Global Health, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Graduate Institute of Biomedical Electronics and Bioinformatics, College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.
Publications dans "Soins dentaires pour personnes âgées" :
Chronic constipation is one of the most common health disorders in all of medicine. Its extent ranges from mild discomfort, which is usually easy to improve, to severe functional limitations that may ...
This study was conducted as a descriptive and cross-sectional study to determine the prevalence of constipation and the impact of constipation on quality of life in patients receiving outpatient chemo...
The data of the study were collected from 252 patients who applied to the outpatient chemotherapy unit of a university hospital between January 2021 and March 2021. The data were collected using the "...
The constipation prevalence of the patients included in the study was 31.7% and the mean constipation severity score was 30.48 ± 13.87. It was found that the quality of life of the patients due to con...
Constipation occurs in one-third of cancer patients receiving ambulatory chemotherapy. The severity of constipation in patients is at a moderate level and it impacts the quality of life moderately....
Chronic idiopathic constipation (CIC) and opioid-induced constipation (OIC) are disorders that negatively affect quality of life. We sought to assess the prevalence, symptom severity, and medication u...
From May 3, 2020, to June 24, 2020, we recruited a representative sample of people in the United States ≥ 18 years to complete an online national health survey. The survey guided participants through ...
Among the 88,607 participants, 5,334 (6.0%) had Rome IV CIC, and 1,548 (1.7%) and 335 (0.4%) had Rome IV OIC and OEC, respectively. When compared with people with CIC (Patient-Reported Outcome Measure...
In this nationwide US survey, we found that Rome IV CIC is common (6.0%) while Rome IV OIC (1.7%) and OEC (0.4%) are less prevalent. Individuals with OIC and OEC have a higher burden of illness with r...
Constipation is one of the most common gastrointestinal features of Parkinson's disease (PD), occurring in over 50% of all PD patients during the course of their disease. Furthermore, constipation is ...
Transverse myelitis is an extremely rare neuroinflammatory disorder. About half of the affected patients develop paraplegia associated with urinary and bowel dysfunction. The bowel dysfunction is thou...
To evaluate whether providing a constipation action plan (CAP) to families of children with constipation at outpatient gastroenterology (GI) visits affects health care utilization of the GI department...
We created a CAP to be included in the after visit summary of children seen in our GI Clinic. We compared the number of patient telephone calls, electronic messages, and urgent care (UC) visits, emerg...
We included 336 patients who received the CAP and 2812 who did not. After IPTW adjustment, there were fewer patient telephone calls for patients who received the CAP (P = 0.0006). The difference in pa...
We found that providing a CAP to families of children with constipation decreases health care utilization. Further studies are needed to determine whether this impacts patient outcomes....
Patients with chronic idiopathic constipation (CIC) and irritable bowel syndrome with constipation (IBS-C) often experience severe symptoms. The current aim was to evaluate plecanatide in adults with ...
Data were analyzed post hoc from randomized, placebo-controlled trials (CIC [n = 2], IBS-C [n = 2]) of plecanatide 3 mg, 6 mg, or placebo administered for 12 weeks. Severe constipation was defined as ...
Severe constipation was observed in 24.5% (646/2639) and 24.2% (527/2176) of CIC and IBS-C populations, respectively. The CIC durable overall CSBM response rate (plecanatide 3 mg, 20.9%; plecanatide 6...
Plecanatide was effective in the treatment of severe constipation in adults with CIC or IBS-C....
To implement and to evaluate the effectiveness of the Uniformed Services Constipation Action Plan (USCAP) in our gastroenterology clinic for children with functional constipation....
This implementation science study included toilet-trained subjects aged 4 years and older who met the Rome IV criteria for functional constipation. Children were block randomized to receive either the...
Fifty-seven treatment group subjects (44%) received a USCAP (52% male; mean age, 10.9 [4.9] years) compared with 73 controls (56%; 48% male; mean age,10.9 [5.3] years). A PBSFS score of 3 or 4 was ach...
The USCAP is a simple, inexpensive tool that has the potential to improve global outcomes for functional constipation in children and should be recommended as standard clinical practice....
Constipation encompasses symptoms of decreased colonic motility or difficulty with the defecation process. As a broad definition, this can be inclusive of functional constipation (FC) or colonic inert...
Constipation can seriously affect the quality of life and increase the risk of colorectal cancer. The present strategies for constipation therapy have adverse effects, such as causing irreversible int...