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J Mascaro

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PubMed2006

[Interobserver concordance in functional assessment by Barthel Index].

BACKGROUND: The aim of this study is to analyze interobserver "reproductiveness" between clinical nurses in gerontology and residents in family medicine in their first contact with the Barthel Index (BI). MATERIALS AND METHODS: One hundred patients were assessed. BI at two weeks before admission was scored by a patient or carer interview. Eighteen patients were excluded because interviews were not completed. RESULTS: Mean BI of 82 patient included, assessed by nurses was 87.3 and by residents 88.2. In 40 patients some differences in the mean values of BI were observed. When analyzing the overall BI score the agreement was high (r=0.793) but interobserver agreement was low (kappa<0.4) in some fields such as eating, dressing and transfers and medium in others (kappa from 0.40 to 0.75). CONCLUSIONS: Low reproductiviness interobserver in some patients of the BI when clinical nurses in gerontology and residents in family medicine are compared suggest that they need specific training in functional capacity evaluation in order to improve the BI use.

Activities of Daily Living↗
PubMed1988

[Dry hands (irritative contact dermatitis) in housewives which is not alleviated on cessation of domestic work: clinical varieties].

There are three types of hand dermatitis in housewives. The most usual are cured when housework is stopped. Another type is that of housewife contact dermatitis which appears on pre-existing endogenous lesions such as dyshidrosis or nummular eczema. The third form is housewife hand contact dermatitis which appears, or coexists with, localized endogenous lesions of the hands. The last two forms are not cured when housework is stopped. In some cases the three forms may coexist or appear one after another. It is not usual for a person suffering from typical flexural atopic dermatitis to present with one of the described three forms of hand dermatitis. Nevertheless, without having some relationship to atopic diathesis no woman could suffer from any of these three forms of dermatitis. In spite of the lack of analytical data, everyday clinical facts (one example being these different forms of housewife hand dermatitis) suggest the need to accept a subgroup of cutaneous atopic diathesis.

Dermatitis, Contact↗
PubMed1983

The microbiologic flora of orofacial abscesses.

Fifty orofacial abscesses were studied using culture techniques for both aerobic and anaerobic organisms. Eighty-six per cent of the specimens contained anaerobes; of this group, 39 per cent had organisms resistant to penicillin.

Abscess↗
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[Decrease of catatonic schizophrenia in patients hospitalized in 1984 in comparison to 1964].

It has been suggested that manifestations of mental illnesses have been changing during the last decades. Thus, the catatonic form of schizophrenia is scarcely observed nowadays and should be about to disappear. Changes in both catatonic schizophrenia prevalence, and catatonic symptoms are analyzed according to revisions dated 1964, and 1984, of the clinical records to be found at the Psychiatric Clinic, University of Chile. A diminution of schizophrenia catatonic forms in 1984 records was found out when comparing with 1964 records. A diminution of catatonic symptons--usually associated to severe forms of schizophrenia--was also noticeable. In both groups, however, such variations have no relation whatever with the extent of the evolutive period prior to institutionalization.

Adolescent↗