Improving cognitive insight can reduce delusions in patients with psychotic disorders. Although institutionalized usually have more severe than outpatients, little is known about the differences between these two groups. In this study, we evaluated psychometric properties of Beck Cognitive Insight Scale (BCIS) for a sample Portuguese disorders and compared living community. Participants study w...

Objective: Olfactory dysfunction (OD) is one of the most prominent predictive symptoms in early detection severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) disease (COVID-19), it may be first symptom or accompany other symptoms. The value OD unknown terms overall prognosis COVID-19. We aimed to investigate relationship between and clinical-radiological severity disease. 
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Objective: To determine the effectiveness of implementation Immediate Care Office as a quality management strategy at Emergency Service public hospital in Lima, Peru. Materials and methods: An analytical, quasi-experimental, before-and-after study conducted with 338 outpatients from different groups treated Hospital María Auxiliadora. Before after Office, waiting time, satisfaction—assessed thr...

Our aim was to study the safety of outpatient treatment in low risk patients with acute pulmonary embolism compared with inpatient treatment, the current clinical standard. We searched Medline, Web of Science, Cochrane and EMBASE databases and included studies on outpatient treatment of pulmonary embolism. The outcomes were 3-month recurrent venous thromboembolism, major bleeding and all-cause ...

It is well known that there is high co morbidity between psychiatric disorders (particularly depression and personality disorders) and alcoholism. Aim of this study is to investigate the co morbidity of alcohol abuse/dependence in outpatients seeking psychiatric help in the Emergency Psychiatric Department (EPD) of two General Hospitals. For a three-month period, all the adult outpatients exami...

BACKGROUND Relatively few articles have focused on exploring factors influencing soldiers' overall satisfaction and differences between inpatients' and outpatients' satisfaction, particularly in the Chinese army. Elucidating factors influencing military inpatient and outpatient care separately and analyzing their differences may provide more information for the health system. METHODS The Revi...

INTRODUCTION Nowadays, the chronic diseases are known to be associated with lifestyle risk factors. Hemodialysis patients encounter considerable amount of physical, mental and social pressure. Lifestyle is important because it affects quality of life and has important role in prevention. This study aimed to compare the lifestyle of hemodialysis patients and outpatients in health clinics of Tabr...