List of works by Altamiro Costa-Pereira

A comparison of in-hospital acute myocardial infarction management between Portugal and the United States: 2000-2010.

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A follow up model for patients with atrophic chronic gastritis and intestinal metaplasia

scientific article published on February 2004

A more objective fetal heart rate baseline estimation.

scientific article published in July 1996

A multicentre comparative study of 17 experts and an intelligent computer system for managing labour using the cardiotocogram

scientific article published on 01 May 1996

A new global health outcome score after trauma (GHOST) for disability, cognitive impairment, and health-related quality of life: data from a prospective cross-sectional observational study

scientific article published on 27 February 2019

A population-based nationwide cross-sectional study on preventive health services utilization in Portugal--what services (and frequencies) are deemed necessary by patients?

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A population-based study on chronic pain and the use of opioids in Portugal.

scientific article published on 26 August 2013

A review on remote monitoring technology applied to implantable electronic cardiovascular devices

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Access and privacy rights using web security standards to increase patient empowerment.

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Acute kidney injury in severe trauma assessed by RIFLE criteria: a common feature without implications on mortality?

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Additional risk factors for infection by multidrug-resistant pathogens in healthcare-associated infection: a large cohort study

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Admission cardiotocography.

scientific article published in May 2003

Asthma patients are willing to use mobile and web technologies to support self-management

scientific article published on 01 March 2006

Attitudes towards do-not-resuscitate decisions: differences among health professionals in a Portuguese hospital

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Behaviour towards sun exposure, skin self-examination and skin cancer knowledge of educators, health professionals and the general population - cross-sectional study.

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Burden of burns in Portugal, 2000-2013: A clinical and economic analysis of 26,447 hospitalisations

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Chronic pain and health services utilization: is there overuse of diagnostic tests and inequalities in nonpharmacologic treatment methods utilization?

scientific article published in October 2013

Classification of healthcare-associated infection: a systematic review 10 years after the first proposal

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Clinical assessment of pediatric obstructive sleep apnea: a systematic review and meta-analysis

scientific article published on 09 August 2012

Clinical efficacy of web-based versus standard asthma self-management.

scientific article published in January 2012

Cognitions associated with initial medical consultations concerning recurrent breathing difficulties: A community-based study

Computerized estimation of the baseline fetal heart rate in labour: the low frequency line

scientific article published on 01 October 1998

Control of allergic rhinitis and asthma test--a formal approach to the development of a measuring tool.

scientific article published on 17 June 2009

Correspondence

Corrigendum to "Burden of burns in Portugal, 2000-2013: A clinical and economic analysis of 26,447 hospitalisations" [Burns 42 (4) (2016) 891-900].

scientific article published on 24 October 2016

Cost-Sensitive Decision Trees Applied to Medical Data

Cost-Sensitive Learning in Medicine

Determinants of frequency and longevity of hospital encounters' data use.

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Diagnostic and laboratory test ordering in Northern Portuguese Primary Health Care: a cross-sectional study.

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Differences in compliance with Surviving Sepsis Campaign recommendations according to hospital entrance time: day versus night

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Differences in microbiological profile between community-acquired, healthcare-associated and hospital-acquired infections.

scientific article published in July 2013

Do students from public schools fare better in medical school than their colleagues from private schools? If so, what can we learn from this?

scientific article published on 27 March 2018

E-learning at Porto Faculty of Medicine. A case study for the subject 'Introduction to Medicine'.

scientific article published in January 2007

Early extubation does not increase complication rates after coronary artery bypass graft surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass

scientific article published in June 2002

Efficacy and safety of non-invasive ventilation in the treatment of acute cardiogenic pulmonary edema--a systematic review and meta-analysis

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Epidemiology of chronic pain: a population-based nationwide study on its prevalence, characteristics and associated disability in Portugal

scientific article published in August 2012

Estimating the prevalence of inflammatory bowel disease in Portugal using a pharmaco-epidemiological approach.

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Evaluation of interobserver agreement of cardiotocograms.

scientific article published in April 1997

Evaluation of the Asthma Life Quality test for the screening and severity assessment of asthma

scientific article published on 01 November 2004

External validation of a classification for methylene blue magnification chromoendoscopy in premalignant gastric lesions.

scientific article published on 21 February 2008

Factors associated with health-related quality of life changes in survivors to pediatric intensive care

scientific article published in January 2013

Factors influencing hospital high length of stay outliers

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Fetal heart rate baselines in twins. Interobserver agreement in antepartum estimation.

scientific article published in February 2000

First trimester aneuploidy screening program for preeclampsia prediction in a portuguese obstetric population

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Further concerns about the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development guidelines for interpretation of electronic fetal heart rate monitoring

Further concerns about the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development guidelines for interpretation of electronic fetal heart rate monitoring

scientific article published on 01 June 2001

HIV/AIDS Indicators for Clinical Care Quality Assessment: Relevance and Utility Assessed by Health Professionals.

scientific article published on 30 June 2016

Health-related quality of life of pediatric intensive care survivors.

scientific article published on 9 January 2012

Hospital readmissions in Portugal over the last decade

scientific article published in November 2013

Hospitalisations with Hidradenitis Suppurativa: An Increasing Problem That Deserves Closer Attention.

scientific article published on 30 September 2016

How can we achieve consensual indicators to be better accepted and more widely used?

scientific article published on 25 November 2013

How to write a scientific paper—Writing the methods section

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Identification of two distinct regions of deletion at 6q in gastric carcinoma.

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Immediate and long-term impact of medical emergency teams on cardiac arrest prevalence and mortality: a plea for periodic basic life-support training programs.

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Impact of aortic dimensions and pulse pressure on late aneurysm formation in operated type A aortic dissection. A magnetic resonance imaging study

scientific article published on 02 February 2008

Inconsistencies in classification by experts of cardiotocograms and subsequent clinical decision

scientific article published on 01 December 1999

Iron deficiency anemia in infants. Preliminary development results at five years

scientific article published in July 2005

Is the Golden hour important? Looking at disability and health-related quality of life in a Portuguese trauma registry.

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Is the prevalence of hidradenitis suppurativa being overestimated in Europe? Or is the disease underdiagnosed? Evidence from a nationwide study across Portuguese public hospitals

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Learning Cost-Sensitive Decision Trees to Support Medical Diagnosis

Male gender is an important clinical risk factor for iron deficiency in healthy infants

Maternal fever in term labour in relation to fetal tachycardia, cord artery acidaemia and neonatal infection

scientific article published on 01 February 1998

Meta-analysis on the validity of pepsinogen test for gastric carcinoma, dysplasia or chronic atrophic gastritis screening

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Microbiology of healthcare-associated infections and the definition accuracy to predict infection by potentially drug resistant pathogens: a systematic review.

scientific article published on 11 December 2015

Model for prediction of pediatric OSA: Proposal for a clinical decision rule

scientific article published on 7 July 2015

Mortality Distribution in a Trauma System: From Data to Health Policy Recommendations.

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Objective computerized fetal heart rate analysis

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Outcome of ICU survivors: a comprehensive review. The role of patient-reported outcome studies.

scientific article published on 04 April 2012

Patients' estimations of the importance of preventive health services: a nationwide, population-based cross-sectional study in Portugal

scientific article published on 05 October 2016

Patients' recollections of experiences in the intensive care unit may affect their quality of life

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Picturing inequities for health impact assessment: linked electronic records, mortality and regional disparities in Portugal

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Pneumatic reduction of childhood intussusception. Is prediction of failure important?

Portuguese Family Physicians' Awareness of Diagnostic and Laboratory Test Costs: A Cross-Sectional Study

scientific article published on 10 September 2015

Portuguese Version of the Pain Beliefs and Perceptions Inventory: A Multicenter Validation Study

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Predisposition, insult/infection, response and organ dysfunction (PIRO): a pilot clinical staging system for hospital mortality in patients with infection

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Pulmonary function electronic monitoring devices: a randomized agreement study

scientific article published in September 2005

Quality of Data in Asthma Records

scholarly article by Joao A. Fonseca et al published 2005 in Allergy and Clinical Immunology International

Quality of life 6-months after cardiac arrest.

scientific article published in October 2002

Quality of life after intensive care--evaluation with EQ-5D questionnaire

scientific article published on 15 June 2002

Quality of life in acute respiratory distress syndrome survivors may be no worst than in other ICU survivors.

scientific article published on 27 May 2003

Quality of life of survivors from severe sepsis and septic shock may be similar to that of others who survive critical illness

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Relationships of asthma care with treatment adherence and asthma control

Sepsis patients do not differ in health-related quality of life compared with other ICU patients.

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Setting reference values for exhaled nitric oxide: a systematic review

scientific article published in April 2013

Should European perinatal indicators be revisited?

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Skin cancer healthcare impact: A nation-wide assessment of an administrative database

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Spontaneous Viral Clearance in Sixteen HIV-Infected Patients with Chronic Hepatitis C

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Sunbed use among Portuguese beach goers: a crave group while waiting sunbeds to be abolished

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The Atlantic Divide In Coronary Heart Disease: Health Technologies Use In The Us And Portugal.

scientific article published on 20 October 2015

The Atlantic divide in coronary heart disease: Epidemiology and patient care in the US and Portugal.

scientific article published on 5 September 2017

The economic impact of chronic pain: a nationwide population-based cost-of-illness study in Portugal

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The effect of different sampling intervals on the measurement of intrapartum fetal heart rate variability

scientific article published on 01 August 1997

The impact of a liberalisation law on legally induced abortion hospitalisations

scientific article published on 30 May 2016

The impact of healthcare-associated infection on mortality: failure in clinical recognition is related with inadequate antibiotic therapy

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The importance of pre-trauma centre treatment of life-threatening events on the mortality of patients transferred with severe trauma

scientific article published on 18 January 2010

The predisposition, infection, response and organ failure (Piro) sepsis classification system: results of hospital mortality using a novel concept and methodological approach

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The role of memories on health-related quality of life after intensive care unit care: an unforgettable controversy?

scientific article published on 04 June 2016

Tobacco smoking and alcohol consumption as risk factors for thymoma - A European case-control study

scientific article published on 26 June 2019

Translation and cross-cultural adaptation of the Pediatric Sleep Questionnaire into Portuguese language

scientific article published on 11 December 2014

Unattended sleep studies in pediatric OSA: a systematic review and meta-analysis

scientific article published on 10 April 2014

Understanding posttraumatic stress disorder-related symptoms after critical care: the early illness amnesia hypothesis.

scientific article published in October 2008

Using Probabilistic Graphical Models to Enhance the Prognosis of Health-Related Quality of Life in Adult Survivors of Critical Illness

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Web-based system for training and dissemination of a magnification chromoendoscopy classification.

scientific article published on December 2008

[Developmental delay in children with iron deficiency anemia. Can this be reversed by iron therapy?].

scientific article published in January 2002