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List of works by Alberto Freitas

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

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Adult Asthma Scores-Development and Validation of Multivariable Scores to Identify Asthma in Surveys

scientific article published on 18 July 2018

An Open Source GIS Application for Spatial Assessment of Health Care Quality Indicators

scientific article published in 2021

Analysis of the quality of hospital information systems Audit Trails

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Applying Data Mining Techniques to Improve Breast Cancer Diagnosis

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Applying data mining techniques to improve diagnosis in neonatal jaundice

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Atrial Fibrillation as an Ischemic Stroke Clinical and Economic Burden Modifier: A 15-Year Nationwide Study

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Burden of Burns in Brazil from 2000 to 2014: A Nationwide Hospital-Based Study.

scientific article published on 27 March 2017

Burden of Tuberculosis Hospitalizations in Portugal From 2000 to 2015

scientific article published on 08 August 2018

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

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Burden of digestive diseases in Portugal: trends in hospitalizations between 2000 and 2010.

scientific article published on March 2015

Burden of disease attributable to risk factors in European countries: a scoping literature review

scientific article published on 25 June 2023

Clinical and economic burden of hospitalizations with registration of penicillin allergy.

scientific article published in February 2018

Comorbidity Coding Trends in Hospital Administrative Databases

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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 Learning in Medicine

Definition of a core set of quality indicators for the assessment of HIV/AIDS clinical care: a systematic review

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Detection of adverse drug reactions using hospital databases-a nationwide study in Portugal

scientific article published on 13 June 2013

Disparities in Contemporary Treatment Rates of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms Across Western Countries

scientific article published on 11 June 2019

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

Early results of carotid endarterectomy versus carotid stenting: Outcomes from a Mediterranean country

scientific article published on 2 April 2019

Eating disorders-Related hospitalizations in Portugal: A nationwide study from 2000 to 2014

scientific article published on 28 September 2018

Ethics, equity, and human dignity in access to health services: the case of cochlear implants in children and adolescents

scientific article published on 30 October 2014

Factors influencing hospital high length of stay outliers

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First Population-Based Screening of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm in Portugal

scientific article published on 22 February 2019

Frequency and Impact of Adverse Events in Inpatients: A Nationwide Analysis of Episodes between 2000 and 2015.

scientific article published on 26 January 2018

Geospatial Analysis of Environmental Atmospheric Risk Factors in Neurodegenerative Diseases: A Systematic Review

scientific article published on 13 November 2020

HIV disease burden, cost, and length of stay in Portuguese hospitals from 2000 to 2010: a cross-sectional study

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

scientific article published on 30 June 2016

Health records as the basis of clinical coding: Is the quality adequate? A qualitative study of medical coders' perceptions

scientific article published on 11 February 2019

High oral corticosteroid exposure and overuse of short-acting beta-2-agonists were associated with insufficient prescribing of controller medication: a nationwide electronic prescribing and dispensing database analysis

scientific article published on 23 September 2019

Hospital admissions 2000–2014: A retrospective analysis of 288 096 events in patients with dementia

scientific article published on 08 May 2018

Hospital admissions by the oldest old: Past trends in one of the most ageing countries in the world.

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

scientific article published on 30 September 2016

Hospitalisations with burns in children younger than five years in Portugal, 2011-2015

scientific article published on 25 January 2019

Hospitalization trends of the Inflammatory Bowel Disease landscape: A nationwide overview of 16 years

scientific article published on 06 February 2019

Hospitalizations in Children with a Penicillin Allergy Label: An Assessment of Healthcare Impact.

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

scientific article published on 25 November 2013

Importance of coding co-morbidities for APR-DRG assignment: Focus on cardiovascular and respiratory diseases

scientific article published on 01 May 2019

Increasing use of non-invasive ventilation in asthma: a long-term analysis of the Portuguese national hospitalization database

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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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Landscapes on Prevention Quality Indicators: A Spatial Analysis of Diabetes Preventable Hospitalizations in Portugal (2016-2017)

scientific article published on 12 November 2020

Learning Cost-Sensitive Decision Trees to Support Medical Diagnosis

Management of bronchiolitis in Portugal, 2000-2015: Do guidelines have an impact?

scientific article published on 27 August 2019

Measuring data credibility and medical coding: a case study using a nationwide Portuguese inpatient database

scientific article published in 2020

Methodologies for the detection of adverse drug reactions: comparison of hospital databases, chart review and spontaneous reporting

scientific article published on October 2012

Nationwide Analysis of Intact Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair in Portugal from 2000 to 2015

scientific article published on 07 January 2020

Paediatric burn unit in Portugal: Beds needed using a bed-day approach

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Pathways after inpatient admission in very advanced age: A Portuguese nationwide study.

scientific article published on 29 July 2017

Pelvic organ prolapse surgical management in Portugal and FDA safety communication have an impact on vaginal mesh

scientific article published on 16 August 2014

Prediction of Asthma Hospitalizations for the Common Cold Using Google Trends: Infodemiology Study

scientific article published in 2021

Primary health care quality indicators: An umbrella review

scientific article published on 16 August 2019

Problems and Barriers during the Process of Clinical Coding: a Focus Group Study of Coders' Perceptions

scientific article published on 08 February 2020

Psychiatric disorders as main discharge diagnosis by the Portuguese oldest old from 2000 to 2014: exploring national acute inpatient admissions.

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Quality Indicators for Mental Health in Primary Care - A Comparison Between Literature Review Methods

scientific article published on 01 July 2019

Quality of coding within clinical datasets: A case-study using burn-related hospitalizations

scientific article published on 06 August 2019

Schizophrenia Related Hospitalizations - a Big Data Analysis of a National Hospitalization Database

scientific article published on 01 July 2020

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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Spatio-temporal analysis of preterm birth in Portugal and its relation with environmental variables

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Stevens-Johnson syndrome/toxic epidermal necrolysis and erythema multiforme drug-related hospitalisations in a national administrative database

scientific article published on 22 January 2018

Suicide Mortality Rate as a Sustainable Development Goal (SDG): A Bibliometric Analysis

scientific article published on 19 November 2020

Syphilis hospitalisations in Portugal over the last decade

scientific article published on 18 November 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 impact of a liberalisation law on legally induced abortion hospitalisations

scientific article published on 30 May 2016

The state of health in the European Union (EU-27) in 2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease study 2019

scientific article published on 22 May 2024

Trends and costs of pertussis hospitalizations in Portugal, 2000 to 2015: from 0 to 95 years old

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Trends in Glaucoma Surgical Procedures in Portugal – a 16-year Nationwide Study (2000–2015)

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Trends in hospital admissions for obstructive lung disease from 2000 to 2010 in Portugal

scientific article published on 18 May 2016

Trends in hospitalization for acute bronchiolitis in Portugal: 2000–2015

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Using Mental Health Indicators to Improve Health Care Management: A Web-based Approach

scientific article published on 01 July 2019

Vascular training does matter in the outcomes of saphenous high ligation and stripping

scientific article published on 05 May 2019