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  1. Quantitative assessment of inconsistency in meta-analysis using decision thresholds with two new indices
  2. Impact of Allergic Rhinitis on Academic Performance in Adolescents and Adults: a Bayesian Analysis of MASK-air® Real-world Direct Patient Data
  3. Spatial distribution and predictors of drug‐resistant tuberculosis incidence in Mozambique: A nationwide Bayesian disease mapping study
  4. Impact of Allergic Rhinitis Control on Work Productivity and Costs: A Real-World Data MASK-air Study
  5. Seroprevalence of Hepatitis B virus surface antigen among African blood donors: a systematic review and meta-analysis
  6. Probiotics in the non-surgical treatment of periodontitis: a systematic review and network meta-analysis
  7. Long term cognitive dysfunction among critical care survivors: associated factors and quality of life—a multicenter cohort study
  8. Factors Associated with Performance-Related Pain Among Musicians: A Multicenter Study Using Validated Tools
  9. Seroprevalence of human immunodeficiency virus in African blood donors: a systematic review and meta-analysis
  10. Impact of Uncontrolled Symptoms on the Health‐Related Quality of Life (EQ‐5D‐5L) of Patients With Allergic Rhinitis: A MASK‐air Study
  11. Poor Rhinitis and Asthma Control Is Associated With Decreased Health-Related Quality of Life and Utilities: A MASK-air Study
  12. Performance-related pain and disability among music students versus professional musicians: a multicenter study using a validated tool
  13. Establishment of Diagnostic Reference Levels in Portuguese Interventional Radiology departments
  14. Effect of Platelet-Rich Plasma Dosing for Healing after Arthroscopic Cuff Repair Compared with Surgery Alone: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
  15. A collaborative model for Medical Genetics services delivery in Portugal: a multidisciplinary perspective
  16. The urgency for a change in genetics healthcare provision: views from Portuguese medical geneticists
  17. Efficacy and safety of Mazdutide on weight loss among diabetic and non-diabetic patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials
  18. Long-Term Mortality and Health-Related Quality of Life After Continuous Versus Intermittent Renal Replacement Therapy in ICU Survivors: A Secondary Analysis of the Quality of Life After ICU Study
  19. 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
  20. Spatial distribution and determinants of tuberculosis incidence in Mozambique: a nationwide Bayesian disease mapping study.
  21. Portuguese Heart Failure Prevalence Observational Study (PORTHOS) rationale and design – A population-based study
  22. 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
  23. Predictors of early and long-term mortality after ICU discharge in critically ill COVID-19 patients: A prospective cohort study
  24. Occurrence and predictors of delirium in critically ill older patients: a prospective cohort study
  25. Essential Trace Elements Status in Portuguese Pregnant Women and Their Association with Maternal and Neonatal Outcomes: A Prospective Study from the IoMum Cohort
  26. Performance-Related Pain Among Musicians Questionnaire (PPAM): Multicenter Validation of the First Questionnaire to Evaluate Performance-Related Pain Among Musicians With Different Musical Backgrounds
  27. 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)
  28. Improving the quality of life of parents of patients with congenital abnormalities using psychoeducational interventions: a systematic review
  29. Radiation protection measures used in Portuguese interventional radiology departments: A national survey
  30. Socioeconomic Inequalities and Predictors of Cardiac Rehabilitation Referral: Real World Evidence
  31. Modulating Influence of State Anxiety on the Effect of Midazolam on Postsurgical Pain
  32. Development and validation of an electronic daily control score for asthma (e-DASTHMA): a real-world direct patient data study
  33. Association of 3-Phenoxybenzoic Acid Exposure during Pregnancy with Maternal Outcomes and Newborn Anthropometric Measures: Results from the IoMum Cohort Study
  34. An Overview of Methods to Characterize Skin Type: Focus on Visual Rating Scales and Self-Report Instruments
  35. Frailty phenotype in heart failure: A condition that transcends age
  36. Effectiveness of Exercise-Based Cardiac Rehabilitation for Heart Transplant Recipients: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
  37. Semi-Competing Risks Model Applied in the Study of Diabetic Foot Disease: A Ten-Year Follow-Up
  38. 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
  39. Service provision of genetics health care in Portugal
  40. Association between Elevated Iodine Intake and IQ among School Children in Portugal
  41. Statins are associated with reduced likelihood of sarcopenia in a sample of heart failure outpatients: a cross-sectional study
  42. Noncompliance to iodine supplementation recommendation is a risk factor for iodine insufficiency in Portuguese pregnant women: results from the IoMum cohort
  43. Allergen immunotherapy in MASK‐air users in real‐life: Results of a Bayesian mixed‐effects model
  44. Seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 and assessment of epidemiologic determinants in Portuguese municipal workers
  45. Development and validation of combined symptom‐medication scores for allergic rhinitis*
  46. Interventions for improving recovery from work
  47. Clinical ABCDE rule for early melanoma detection
  48. Pain as the fifth vital sign—A comparison between public and private healthcare systems
  49. 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
  50. 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
  51. Patterns of dosage regimen instructions regarding topical medicines: how is the information perceived by patients?
  52. Time-trends and predictors of interhospital transfers and 30-day rehospitalizations after acute coronary syndrome from 2000-2015
  53. Impact in the quality of life of parents of children with chronic diseases using psychoeducational interventions – A systematic review with meta-analysis
  54. Frailty phenotype and associated nutritional factors in a sample of Portuguese outpatients with heart failure
  55. Central Pain in Parkinson’s Disease: Behavioral and Cognitive Characteristics
  56. Blood pressure-lowering treatment for the prevention of cardiovascular events in patients with atrial fibrillation: An individual participant data meta-analysis
  57. Frequency of severe reactions following penicillin drug provocation tests: A Bayesian meta‐analysis
  58. Iodine knowledge is associated with iodine status in Portuguese pregnant women: results from the IoMum cohort study
  59. OCT-angiography detects longitudinal microvascular changes in glaucoma: a systematic review
  60. The association of milk and dairy consumption with iodine status in pregnant women in Oporto region
  61. Effectiveness of Tele-rehabilitation Programs in Heart Failure: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
  62. Children’s performance on Raven’s Coloured progressive matrices in Portugal: The Flynn effect
  63. Accuracy of penicillin allergy diagnostic tests: A systematic review and meta-analysis
  64. Pain as a risk factor for suicidal behavior in older adults: A systematic review
  65. Penicillin allergy testing is cost-saving: An economic evaluation study
  66. Non-Adherence to Pharmacotherapy: A Prospective Multicentre Study About Its Incidence and Its Causes Perceived by Chronic Pain Patients
  67. 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 ...
  68. Screening tests for latent tuberculosis prior to anti-TNF alpha therapy – a systematic review and meta-analysis
  69. Prevalence and determinants of motor stereotypies in autism spectrum disorder: A systematic review and meta-analysis
  70. SmartBEAT: A Smartphone-Based Heart Failure Telemonitoring Solution
  71. PROTOCOL: Psychosocial processes and intervention strategies behind islamist deradicalisation: A scoping review
  72. Daily intake of wheat germ-enriched bread may promote a healthy gut bacterial microbiota: a randomised controlled trial
  73. Determinantes na opinião sobre eutanásia em amostra de médicos portugueses
  74. Sleep disturbances in Parkinson’s disease are associated with central parkinsonian pain
  75. Unveiling the relationship between central parkinsonian pain and motor symptoms in Parkinson's disease
  76. Estimating Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and Motor Neuron Disease Prevalence in Portugal Using a Pharmaco-Epidemiological Approach and a Bayesian Multiparameter Evidence Synthesis Model
  77. Homologous recombination deficiency as prognostic marker in metastatic gastric cancer.
  78. Effects of blood pressure-lowering drugs in heart failure
  79. NT-pro-BNP correlates with disease severity and predicts outcome in cerebral haemorrhage patients: Cohort study
  80. Original Intracerebral Hemorrhage Score for the Prediction of Short-Term Mortality in Cerebral Hemorrhage
  81. Diagnostic performance of optical coherence tomography angiography in glaucoma: a systematic review and meta-analysis
  82. OP04 Turning sweet in inflammatory bowel disease: glycans as novel immunomodulators of T-cell-mediated immune response
  83. Portuguese version of the Medication Adherence Report Scale (MARS‐9): Validation in a population of chronic pain patients
  84. High Prevalence of Human Papillomavirus on Anal and Oral Samples from Men and Women with External Anogenital Warts: The HERCOLES Study
  85. 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.
  86. Depression and heart failure: preliminary findings from the deus ex machina study
  87. A Two-Year Prospective Multicenter Study of Opioid Therapy for Chronic Noncancer Pain: Prescription Trends and Predictors
  88. Effectiveness of opioids for chronic noncancer pain: a two-year multicenter, prospective cohort study with propensity score matching
  89. Prognostic models for intracerebral hemorrhage: systematic review and meta-analysis
  90. The Use of Glycomacropeptide in Patients with Phenylketonuria: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
  91. Assessment and Comparison of the Four Most Extensively Validated Prognostic Scales for Intracerebral Hemorrhage: Systematic Review with Meta-analysis
  92. Prediction of clinical outcomes in individuals with chronic low back pain: a protocol for a systematic review with meta-analysis
  93. A (glyco)biomarker that predicts failure to standard therapy in Ulcerative Colitis patients
  94. 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
  95. Incidence and Health Related Quality of Life of Opioid-Induced Constipation in Chronic Noncancer Pain Patients: A Prospective Multicentre Cohort Study
  96. Clinical Performance of CAD/CAM Tooth-Supported Ceramic Restorations: A Systematic Review
  97. Web-Based Versus Usual Care and Other Formats of Decision Aids to Support Prostate Cancer Screening Decisions: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
  98. Reply
  99. Physiological and Operative Severity Score for the enumeration of Mortality and Morbidity (POSSUM) System for Outcome Prediction in Elderly Patients Undergoing Major Vascular Surgery
  100. Comparison of graft patency following coronary artery bypass grafting in the left versus the right coronary artery systems: a systematic review and meta-analysis†
  101. Compliance With Guideline-Directed Medical Therapy in Contemporary Coronary Revascularization Trials
  102. Estudo Unicêntrico Prospetivo de Avaliação Sistemática da Dor em Doentes Portugueses com Cancro da Próstata Metastizado
  103. INTERDEM Academy special section: what effect does delirium have on family and nurses of older adult patients?
  104. Cost of asthma in children: A nationwide, population-based, cost-of-illness study
  105. Cost of asthma in Portuguese adults: A population-based, cost-of-illness study
  106. Persistent postoperative pain after cardiac surgery
  107. Implications of comorbidity and acute illness severity in elderly patients with delirium
  108. Web-Based Versus Usual Care and Other Formats of Decision Aids to Support Prostate Cancer Screening Decisions: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis (Preprint)
  109. The Atlantic divide in coronary heart disease: Epidemiology and patient care in the US and Portugal
  110. The Portuguese long version of the Copenhagen Psychosocial Questionnaire II (COPSOQ II) – a validation study
  111. A comparison of in-hospital acute myocardial infarction management between Portugal and the United States: 2000–2010
  112. Epidemiology of human papillomavirus on anogenital warts in Portugal - The HERCOLES study
  113. Bias in valuation of health care benefits in metastatic prostate cancer: A contingent valuation of willingness to pay.
  114. Iodine Status and Iodised Salt Consumption in Portuguese School-Aged Children: The Iogeneration Study
  115. A systematic review of association between pain and suicidal behavior in elderly people
  116. The effect of a test ordering software intervention on the prescription of unnecessary laboratory tests - a randomized controlled trial
  117. Reliability and validity of the Bowel Function Index for evaluating opioid-induced constipation: translation, cultural adaptation and validation of the Portuguese version (BFI-P)
  118. Análise da Revisão Cochrane: fibratos na prevenção secundária de doença cardiovascular e acidente vascular cerebral
  119. Interventional Pain Management in Multidisciplinary Chronic Pain Clinics: A Prospective Multicenter Cohort Study with One-Year Follow-Up
  120. Portuguese Version of the Pain Beliefs and Perceptions Inventory: A Multicenter Validation Study
  121. Single dose versus multiple dose of antibiotic prophylaxis in caesarean section: a systematic review and meta-analysis
  122. Can wheat germ have a beneficial effect on human health? A study protocol for a randomised crossover controlled trial to evaluate its health effects
  123. Helping Decision-Makers Visualize Inequities In Health Impact Assessment: Linked Electronic Records, Mortality And Regional Disparities In Portugal
  124. Análise da Revisão Cochrane: Cromoscopia Versus Colonoscopia Convencional na Deteção de Pólipos ColoRetais. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2016;4:CD006439
  125. Physical activity and exercise for erectile dysfunction: systematic review and meta-analysis
  126. Patients' estimations of the importance of preventive health services: a nationwide, population-based cross-sectional study in Portugal
  127. Persistent Postoperative Pain after Cardiac Surgery: Incidence, Characterization, Associated Factors and its impact in Quality of Life
  128. Asthma-like symptoms, diagnostic tests, and asthma medication use in children and adolescents: a population-based nationwide survey
  129. Microbiology of healthcare-associated infections and the definition accuracy to predict infection by potentially drug resistant pathogens: a systematic review
  130. The Atlantic Divide In Coronary Heart Disease: Health Technologies Use In The Us And Portugal
  131. Asthma control and exacerbations in patients with severe asthma treated with omalizumab in Portugal
  132. Análise da Revisão Cochrane: Erradicação da Helicobacter pylori na Prevenção do Cancro Gástrico. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2015;7:CD005583.
  133. Vulnerability in elderly patients with gastrointestinal cancer – translation, cultural adaptation and validation of the European Portuguese version of the Vulnerable Elders Survey (VES-13)
  134. Asthma control in the Portuguese National Asthma Survey
  135. Asthma control in children is associated with nasal symptoms, obesity, and health insurance: a nationwide survey
  136. High prevalence of hospitalisation for asthma in a population-based paediatric sample: Table 1
  137. The economic impact of chronic pain: a nationwide population-based cost-of-illness study in Portugal
  138. Concomitant Unipolar Radiofrequency Ablation of Nonparoxysmal Atrial Fibrillation in Rheumatic and Degenerative Valve Disease
  139. Response to Nesmith et al
  140. Preventive health services implemented by family physicians in Portugal—a cross-sectional study based on two clinical scenarios
  141. Classification of healthcare-associated infection: a systematic review 10 years after the first proposal
  142. Validation of Control of Allergic Rhinitis and Asthma Test for Children (CARATKids) - a prospective multicenter study
  143. Ophthalmic adverse drug reactions to systemic drugs: a systematic review
  144. Integrative genomic analysis identifies a role for intercellular adhesion molecule 1 in childhood asthma
  145. Operational definitions of asthma in recent epidemiological studies are inconsistent
  146. A population-based study on chronic pain and the use of opioids in Portugal
  147. A Population-Based Nationwide Cross-Sectional Study on Preventive Health Services Utilization in Portugal—What Services (and Frequencies) Are Deemed Necessary by Patients?
  148. Chronic Pain and Health Services Utilization
  149. Poster Sessions
  150. Characterization of acute heart failure hospitalizations in a Portuguese cardiology department
  151. Detection of adverse drug reactions using hospital databases-a nationwide study in Portugal
  152. Prevalência da exposição ao fumo ambiental do tabaco em casa e do tabagismo na população Portuguesa – o estudo INAsma
  153. Response to Yusuf and Watson
  154. Direct Comparison of Cardiac Magnetic Resonance and Multidetector Computed Tomography Stress-Rest Perfusion Imaging for Detection of Coronary Artery Disease
  155. Ophthalmic adverse drug reactions: A nationwide detection using hospital databases
  156. Systematic review of Purtscher’s and Purtscher-like retinopathies
  157. Methodologies for the detection of adverse drug reactions: comparison of hospital databases, chart review and spontaneous reporting
  158. Epidemiology of Chronic Pain: A Population-Based Nationwide Study on Its Prevalence, Characteristics and Associated Disability in Portugal
  159. Frequency of adverse drug reactions in hospitalized patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis
  160. Prevalence of asthma in Portugal - The Portuguese National Asthma Survey
  161. Control of Allergic Rhinitis and Asthma Test (CARAT) can be used to assess individual patients over time
  162. How to write a scientific paper—Writing the methods section
  163. Cardiovascular Risk and Clinical Factors in Athletes
  164. Thematic Poster Sessions - Tuesday
  165. Efficacy of continuing zoledronic acid beyond 24 months in metastatic prostate cancer.
  166. Economic evaluation in cardiology
  167. To publish or perish: How to review a manuscript
  168. A prospective non-randomised study to compare oral trauma from laryngoscope versus laryngeal mask insertion
  169. Possible benefits of strontium ranelate in complicated long bone fractures
  170. Validation of a questionnaire (CARAT10) to assess rhinitis and asthma in patients with asthma
  171. Ulcerative colitis in a Southern European country: A national perspective
  172. Nociceptive behaviour upon modulation of mu-opioid receptors in the ventrobasal complex of the thalamus of rats
  173. Estimating the prevalence of inflammatory bowel disease in Portugal using a pharmaco-epidemiological approach
  174. Immediate and long-term impact of medical emergency teams on cardiac arrest prevalence and mortality: A plea for periodic basic life-support training programs*
  175. Crohnʼs disease in a southern European country: Montreal classification and clinical activity
  176. Control of allergic rhinitis and asthma test – a formal approach to the development of a measuring tool
  177. Validation study of the Camberwell Assessment of Need for the Elderly (CANE) in Portugal
  178. N-Terminal-pro-B Type Natriuretic Peptide as a Useful Tool to Evaluate Pulmonary Hypertension and Cardiac Function in CDH Infants
  179. Reply
  180. 258 Ambulatory monitoring for heart failure patients: it is possible to improve survival and quality of life: a metanalysis of randomized controlled trials
  181. Rosuvastatin Affecting Aortic Valve Endothelium to Slow the Progression of Aortic Stenosis
  182. When (quality of) life is at stake and intensive care is needed: how much can we trust our proxies?
  183. Diet and gastric cancer in Portugal — a multivariate model