Assessment and Recommendations for Website Platforms of Neuroanesthesiology Fellowship Programs.

BACKGROUND: Websites serve as recruitment and educational tools for many fellowship programs, including neuroanesthesiology. Since the COVID-19 pandemic, when interviews, conferences, and institutional visits were moved online, websites have become more important for applicants when deciding on their preferred fellowship program. This study evaluated the content of the websites of neuroanesthesiology fellowship programs. METHODS: Neuroanesthesiology fellowship program websites were identified from the websites of the International Council on Perioperative Neuroscience Training and the Society for Neuroscience in Anesthesiology and Critical Care. The content was assessed against 24 predefined criteria. RESULTS: Fifty-three fellowship programs were identified, of which 42 websites were accessible through a Google search and available for evaluation. The mean number of criteria met by the 42 fellowship websites was 12/24 (50%), with a range of 6 to 18 criteria. None of the evaluated fellowship websites met all 24 predefined criteria; 20 included more than 50% of the criteria, whereas 7 included fewer than 30% of the criteria. Having a functional website, accessibility through a single click from Google, and a detailed description of the fellowship program were the features of most websites. Information about salary and life in the area, concise program summaries, and biographical information of past and current fellows were missing from a majority of websites. CONCLUSION: Important information was missing from most of the 42 evaluated neuroanesthesiology fellowship program websites, potentially hindering applicants from making informed choices about their career plans.

Longitudinal Changes in Regional Brain Volumes and Cognition of Professional Fighters With Traumatic Encephalopathy Syndrome.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Due to current limitations in diagnosing chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) clinically, traumatic encephalopathy syndrome (TES) has been proposed as the clinical presentation of suspected CTE. This study aimed to determine whether there was an association between a clinical diagnosis of TES and subsequent temporal decline in cognitive or MRI volumetric measures. METHODS: This was a secondary analysis of the Professional Athletes Brain Health Study (PABHS), inclusive of active and retired professional fighters older than 34 years. All athletes were adjudicated as TES positive (TES+) or TES negative (TES-) based on the 2021 clinical criteria. General linear mixed models were used to compare MRI regional brain volumes and cognitive performance between groups. RESULTS: A total of 130 fighters met inclusion criteria for consensus conference. Of them, 52 fighters (40%) were adjudicated as TES+. Athletes with a TES+ diagnosis were older and had significantly lower education. Statistically significant interactions and between-group total mean differences were found in all MRI volumetric measurements among the TES+ group compared with those among the TES- group. The rate of volumetric change indicated a significantly greater increase for lateral (estimate = 5,196.65; 95% CI = 2642.65, 7750.66) and inferior lateral ventricles (estimate = 354.28; 95% CI = 159.90, 548.66) and a decrease for the hippocampus (estimate = -385.04, 95% CI = -580.47, -189.62), subcortical gray matter (estimate = -4,641.08; 95% CI = -6783.98, -2498.18), total gray matter (estimate = -26492.00; 95% CI = -50402.00, -2582.32), and posterior corpus callosum (estimate = -147.98; 95% CI = -222.33, -73.62). Likewise, the rate of cognitive decline was significantly greater for reaction time (estimate = 56.31; 95% CI = 26.17, 86.45) and other standardized cognitive scores in the TES+ group. DISCUSSION: The 2021 TES criteria clearly distinguishes group differences in the longitudinal presentation of volumetric loss in select brain regions and cognitive decline among professional fighters 35 years and older. This study suggests that a TES diagnosis may be useful in professional sports beyond football, such as boxing and mixed martial arts. These findings further suggest that the application of TES criteria may be valuable clinically in predicting cognitive decline.

Traumatic encephalopathy syndrome: application of new criteria to a cohort exposed to repetitive head impacts.

OBJECTIVE: To examine the characteristics of those who fulfil the recent National Institute of Neurological Disease and Stroke (NINDS) Consensus Diagnostic Criteria for Traumatic Encephalopathy Syndrome (TES) and test whether they show differences in MRI-based regional brain volumes, cognitive domains, and certain plasma biomarkers. METHODS: Professional fighters 35 years of age or older and/or retired were included. Participants were categorised as either having TES (TES+) or not (non-TES). TES+ participants were further subtyped by their cognitive profile. Multiple linear regression models were used to compare MRI-based regional brain volumes, cognitive performance, plasma tau and neurofilament light levels between TES- and TES+ groups. RESULTS: 176 participants (110 boxers and 66 MMA) were included in the analysis. 72 (41%)/176 were categorised as having TES, the likelihood of TES increasing with age. TES+ participants tended to be boxers, started fighting at a younger age, had more professional fights and knocked out more frequently. The TES+ group had lower regional brain volumes including both grey and white matter structures. TES+ also had lower scores on simple and choice reaction time, psychomotor speed and Trails A . CONCLUSION: The new TES criteria does distinguish a group of fighters with differences in regional brain volumes and reduced cognitive function. Our findings support the use of the NINDS criteria for TES in further research of the long-term effects of repetitive head impacts.

The role of basket trials in drug development for neurodegenerative disorders.

BACKGROUND: Drug development for neurodegenerative disorders (NDDs) is a long, complex, and expensive enterprise. Methods to optimize drug development for NDDs are needed. Basket trials have been widely used in oncology and have been promoted by the Food and Drug Administration as a means of enhancing the efficiency of drug development. DISCUSSION: We reviewed clinical trials for NDDs registered on clinicaltrials.gov in the past 10 years. We identified 59 basket trials assessing the impact of treatment on more than one NDD in the trial. Forty-one of the trials were for 25 agents addressing symptoms of NDD such as motor impairment, hypotension, or psychosis. Eighteen of the trials assessed 14 disease-modifying therapies; the principal targets were mitochondrial function, tau biology, or alpha-synuclein aggregation. Basket trials are most common in phase 2 but have been conducted in phase 1, phase 3, and phase 4. The duration and size of the basket trials are highly variable depending on their developmental phase and the intent of the trial. Parkinson's disease was the most common disorder included in basket trials of symptomatic agents, and Alzheimer's disease was the most common disorder included in basket trials of disease-modifying therapies. Most of the basket trials of symptomatic agents were sponsored by pharmaceutical companies (29 of 41 trials); similarly, most of the basket trials investigating DMTs in basket trials were sponsored by the biopharmaceutical industry (11/17 trials). CONCLUSIONS: Basket trials may increase drug development efficiency by reducing redundancy in trial implementation, enhancing recruitment, sharing placebo groups, and using biomarkers relevant to the mechanism of action of the treatment across NDDs. There have been relatively few basket trials including multiple NDDs in the same trial conducted over the past 10 years. The use of the basket trial strategy may represent an opportunity to increase the efficiency of development programs for agents to treat NDDs.

Comparative NMR Metabolomics Profiling between Mexican Ancestral & Artisanal Mezcals and Industrialized Wines to Discriminate Geographical Origins, Agave Species or Grape Varieties and Manufacturing Processes as a Function of Their Quality Attributes.

The oenological industry has benefited from the use of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (1H-NMR) spectroscopy in combination with Multivariate Statistical Analysis (MSA) as a foodomics tool for retrieving discriminant features related to geographical origins, grape varieties, and further quality controls. Said omics methods have gained such attention that Intergovernmental Organizations and Control Agencies are currently recommending their massive use amongst countries as quality compliances for tracking standard and degradation parameters, fermentation products, polyphenols, amino acids, geographical origins, appellations d'origine contrôlée and type of monovarietal strains in wines. This study presents, for the first time, a 1H-NMR/MSA profiling of industrial Mexican wines, finding excellent statistical features to discriminate between oenological regions and grape varieties with supervised Orthogonal Projections to Latent Structures Discriminant Analysis (OPLS-DA). In a comparative way, it is applied with the 1H-NMR/OPLS-DA workflow for the first time in ancestral and artisanal Mexican mezcals with promising results to discriminate between regions, agave species and manufacturing processes. The central aim of this comparative study is to extrapolate the know-how of wine-omics into the non-professionalized mezcal industry for establishing the NMR acquisition, preprocessing and statistical analysis basis to implement novel, non-invasive and highly reproducible regional, agave species and manufacturing-quality controls.

Solid-state NMR spectroscopy for disentangling structural and motional features of lyophilized ripened cheese water-soluble extracts related to antimicrobial activity.

Present work comprises the use of different solid-state Nuclear Magnetic Resonance strategies for characterizing structural and motional aspects of the peptide matrix that compose a set of four lyophilized Mexican cheese aqueous soluble extracts, each with a controlled ripening. Heteronuclear dipolar coupling modulation schemes allowed to characterize local mobility and structural homogeneity of cheeses' peptide segments in the solid-state as a function of ripening. Results suggest that ripened samples with certain local flexibility but important structural homogeneity present efficient microbial inhibition against tested bacterial strains, whilst high local rigidity of peptides within ripened cheese soluble fractions could partially explain the observed lack of antimicrobial activity. The present study attempts to propose novel observables for lyophilized cheese water soluble extracts that could be partially associated to their ripening-dependent antimicrobial activities, whereas said observables shall contribute to the better targeting, design and optimization of solid-state natural food bio-preservatives.

Automatización para la toma de decisiones en las evaluaciones de los exámenes en la educación médica / Automation for decisions making in the evaluation of exams in medical sciences

Objetivo: Automatizar el trabajo con las tablas de decisiones para la calificación de exámenes parciales y finales (según la Instrucción 3/2015 establecida por el Vice Ministerio de Salud Pública) de las carreras de Ciencias Médicas y la Instrucción 1/2009 del Ministerio de Educación Superior sobre los errores ortográficos en todas las carreras universitarias del país. Métodos: Se realizó un análisis inicial de las características que presentan las evaluaciones integrales que otorga la Metodología para los exámenes de 3, 5 y 7 preguntas respectivamente, se crearon los archivos de datos mediante el paquete profesional estadístico PSPP de libre distribución y se programó el algoritmo que da respuesta al problema utilizando las facilidades que brinda su lenguaje de programación. Resultados: El algoritmo fue validado con el examen final de 1er. año de la carrera de medicina en la Facultad Salvador Allende durante el primer semestre del curso 2018-2019 en la asignatura Célula, Tejido y Sistema Tegumentario y en el segundo semestre con los trabajos de control parciales y los exámenes extraordinarios de la asignatura Bioestadística. Conclusiones: La automatización propuesta puede ser utilizada por los profesores de cualquier asignatura de las facultades de Ciencias Médicas del país. Garantiza otorgar a cada estudiante su evaluación correcta, impidiendo los errores manuales que se cometen debido a la complejidad de las múltiples combinaciones posibles establecidas(AU)

Objective: To automate the work with decision tables for grading mid-term and final exams in the medical sciences profiles according to the enacted instruction 3/2015 of the Vice Ministry of Cuban Public Health and the instruction 1/209 of the Ministry of Superior Education dealing with spelling mistakes in the university studies. Methods: An initial analysis was done taking into account the characteristics of the comprehensive assessments according to the methodology for questions 3, 5 and 7 respectively. Data files were created through the free professional statistic software (PSPP), developing an algorithm to answer the problem, and taking into consideration the facilities of its programming language. Results: The algorithm was successfully tested in the 1st semester of the course 2018-219 at Dr. Salvador Allende Medical Faculty during the exam of the subject matter Cell, Tissue and Tegument and during the second semester in the midterm and final exams of Biostatistics. Conclusions: This proposal could be used by all professors, no matter the subject, of the different faculties of medicine along the country. It guarantees a fair and correct evaluation to each student without manual errors due to the complexity of the multiple possible combinations(AU)

Physicochemical, Sensorial and Microbiological Characterization of PoroCheese, an Artisanal Mexican Cheese Made from Raw Milk.

Poro cheese is a regional product originally from the area of Los Rios, Tabasco in Mexico. In the context of preserving the heritage of Poro cheese and protecting the specific characteristics that define its typicity through an origin designation, the present study was conducted to establish a general profile of Poro cheese by characterizing their physicochemical, textural, rheological, sensorial and microbiological characteristics. Differences in moisture, proteins, fats, NaCl, titrable acidity, pH, color texture and rheology amongst cheese factories were observed and ranges were established. Fifteen descriptors were generated to provide a descriptive analysis, eight of which were significantly different amongst the factories with no differences in the global acceptability of cheese. The favorite cheese had the highest scores for aroma attributes. Conventional and molecular methods were used to identify the main microorganisms, for which Lactobacillus plantarum, L. fermentum, L. farciminis and L. rhamnosus were the main microorganisms found in Porocheese. The obtained data constituted the parameters for characterizing Poro cheese, which will strongly help to support its origin appellation request process.

Caracterización del rendimiento académico de los estudiantes del plan de estudios "d" de medicina / Characterization of the academic performance of medical curriculum "d" students

Objetivo: Caracterizar el rendimiento académico de los estudiantes en el primer año del Plan de Estudios D de la carrera de Medicina en las Facultades 10 de Octubre y Salvador Allende de la Universidad de Ciencias Médicas de La Habana. Métodos: Se realizó un estudio correlacional de corte transversal a partir de las evaluaciones obtenidas por los estudiantes que cursaron las asignaturas del plan en ambas facultades durante el curso 2016-2017. Resultados: detectaron cuatro componentes principales en el conjunto de variables evaluativas del primer año de la carrera: Ciencias Básicas Biomédicas, Disciplinas Complementarias, Educación Física e Idioma Inglés. Los resultados obtenidos corroboran que las Ciencias Básicas Biomédicas constituyen para los estudiantes de Ciencias Médicas la principal dificultad docente en el logro de los objetivos planteados por el nuevo plan de estudios(AU)

Objective: To characterize the academic performance of first year medical curriculum D students at 10 de Octubre and Salvador Allende Medical Schools (Havana Medical University). Methods: A cross-sectional correlational study was carried out from the evaluations obtained by the students of the plan D in both faculties during the academic year 2016-2017. Results: Four main components were detected in the set of evaluative variables of the first year of the degree: Basic Biomedical Sciences, Complementary Disciplines, Physical Education and English Language. Conclusions: The obtained results corroborate that the Basic Biomedical Sciences constitute for the students of Medical Sciences the main teaching difficulty in the achievement of the objectives proposed by the new curriculum(AU)

El aprendizaje por proyectos en la enseñanza de la Estadística Inferencial / Project learning in the teaching of Inferential Statistics

Introducción: La Estadística es una herramienta importante en las investigaciones médicas, sin embargo, los estudiantes presentan dificultades a la hora de confeccionar el diseño metodológico de sus trabajos científicos. Objetivo: Valorar la comprensión de los conceptos estadísticos a partir de la aplicación de la metodología de trabajo con proyectos en la enseñanza de la estadística inferencial en estudiantes de medicina de primer año de la facultad Salvador Allende. Método: La población estuvo conformada por las 8 brigadas de medicina del curso 2016-2017, de las cuales se seleccionaron cuatro de forma aleatoria, garantizando la homogeneidad a partir de los resultados de la prueba inicial. A los grupos experimentales se les impartieron las clases utilizando la metodología por proyectos y a los grupos de control a través del método establecido en los programas de estudios. Resultados: No hubo diferencias estadísticamente significativas entre los resultados de los grupos experimental y control en cuanto a los resultados finales (p>0.05), sin embargo, los resultados de los grupos donde se aplicó la experiencia son algo superiores en cuanto a su calificación media. Conclusiones: Los resultados obtenidos evidenciaron que el uso de la metodología de la enseñanza por proyectos para las clases de estadística puede contribuir a mejorar la calidad del aprendizaje de la asignatura, teniendo en consideración otros factores asociados al proceso de enseñanza aprendizaje como el horario, la disciplina, la asistencia, etc(AU)

Introduction: Statistics is a useful instrument in medical research, however, medical students have difficulties when they design their scientific projects. Objective: To assess the comprehension of statistical concepts considering the applicattion of a project-based methodology, in first year medical students of Salvador Allende Medical School Faculty. Method: The population included eight brigades of second year medical students in the academic course 2016-2017. Four Brigades were selected at random to guarantee the homogeneity from the results of the diagnostic test. The experimental groups received classes using the project-based methodology and the control groups the method established in the study plan. Results: Considering the final results, no relevant differences were found between the experimental groups and the control groups (p>0.05). However, the results obtained in the experimental groups were somewhat higher taking into account the average results. Conclusions: The results obtained showed that the project-based methodology in Statistics may be useful to improve the learning quality of this subject. Discipline, schedule, students attendance are also important aspects to be considered in the teaching-learning process(AU)

El aprendizaje por proyectos en la enseñanza de la Estadística Inferencial / Project learning in the teaching of Inferential Statistics

Introducción: La Estadística es una herramienta importante en las investigaciones médicas, sin embargo, los estudiantes presentan dificultades a la hora de confeccionar el diseño metodológico de sus trabajos científicos. Objetivo: Valorar la comprensión de los conceptos estadísticos a partir de la aplicación de la metodología de trabajo con proyectos en la enseñanza de la estadística inferencial en estudiantes de medicina de primer año de la facultad Salvador Allende. Método: La población estuvo conformada por las 8 brigadas de medicina del curso 2016-2017, de las cuales se seleccionaron cuatro de forma aleatoria, garantizando la homogeneidad a partir de los resultados de la prueba inicial. A los grupos experimentales se les impartieron las clases utilizando la metodología por proyectos y a los grupos de control a través del método establecido en los programas de estudios. Resultados: No hubo diferencias estadísticamente significativas entre los resultados de los grupos experimental y control en cuanto a los resultados finales (p>0.05), sin embargo, los resultados de los grupos donde se aplicó la experiencia son algo superiores en cuanto a su calificación media. Conclusiones: Los resultados obtenidos evidenciaron que el uso de la metodología de la enseñanza por proyectos para las clases de estadística puede contribuir a mejorar la calidad del aprendizaje de la asignatura, teniendo en consideración otros factores asociados al proceso de enseñanza aprendizaje como el horario, la disciplina, la asistencia, etc(AU)

Introduction: Statistics is a useful instrument in medical research, however, medical students have difficulties when they design their scientific projects. Objective: To assess the comprehension of statistical concepts considering the applicattion of a project-based methodology, in first year medical students of Salvador Allende Medical School Faculty. Method: The population included eight brigades of second year medical students in the academic course 2016-2017. Four Brigades were selected at random to guarantee the homogeneity from the results of the diagnostic test. The experimental groups received classes using the project-based methodology and the control groups the method established in the study plan. Results: Considering the final results, no relevant differences were found between the experimental groups and the control groups (p>0.05). However, the results obtained in the experimental groups were somewhat higher taking into account the average results. Conclusions: The results obtained showed that the project-based methodology in Statistics may be useful to improve the learning quality of this subject. Discipline, schedule, students attendance are also important aspects to be considered in the teaching-learning process(AU)

Caracterización del rendimiento académico de los estudiantes de enfermería en la disciplina informática en salud / Characterization of the academic performance of nursing students in the discipline informatics in health

Objetivo: Caracterizar el rendimiento académico de los estudiantes del Plan de Estudios D de la carrera de Enfermería en la disciplina Informática en Salud en la Facultad 10 de Octubre de la Universidad de Ciencias Médicas de La Habana. Métodos: Se realizó un estudio cuantitativo, analítico, longitudinal y prospectivo a partir de las evaluaciones obtenidas por los estudiantes que cursaron todas las asignaturas que constituyen la disciplina y defendieron el Informe final de investigación entre los cursos 2006-2007 y 2013-2014. Se realizó un Análisis Factorial, un Análisis de Conglomerados y un Análisis Discriminante para detectar las relaciones existentes dentro del conjunto de variables evaluativas de la disciplina, clasificar a los estudiantes según su rendimiento académico y predecir el resultado del estudiante en el Informe final respectivamente. Resultados: Se detectaron tres componentes principales en el conjunto de variables evaluativas de la disciplina: Bioestadística, Metodología de la Investigación e Informática. Conclusiones: Los resultados del estudio muestran que globalmente la trayectoria del rendimiento se relaciona con los resultados que se obtienen en el Informe final de Investigación, en los cuales se aplican integralmente los conocimientos y las habilidades adquiridos para el trabajo de investigación(AU)

Objective: To characterize the academic performance of the Plan D students of the Degree in Nursing in the Informatics in Health discipline at 10 de Octubre Medical School of the Havana Medical University. Methods: A quantitative, analytical, longitudinal and prospective study was carried out from the grades got by the students who took all the subjects of the discipline and who defended the final research report between the courses 2006-2007 and 2013-2014. Factorial, Cluster and Discriminant Analyses were made to detect the current relationships within the evaluative variables of the discipline, to classify the students according to their academic performance and to predict the students' result in the final report respectively. Results: Three main components of the evaluative variables of the discipline were detected: Biostatistics, Research Methodology and Informatics. Conclusions: The results of the study show that as a whole the performance is related to the results achieved in the final report of the investigation in which the acquired knowledge and skills are integrally applied(AU)

Caracterización del rendimiento académico de los estudiantes de enfermería en la disciplina informática en salud / Characterization of the academic performance of nursing students in the discipline informatics in health

Objetivo: Caracterizar el rendimiento académico de los estudiantes del Plan de Estudios D de la carrera de Enfermería en la disciplina Informática en Salud en la Facultad 10 de Octubre de la Universidad de Ciencias Médicas de La Habana. Métodos: Se realizó un estudio cuantitativo, analítico, longitudinal y prospectivo a partir de las evaluaciones obtenidas por los estudiantes que cursaron todas las asignaturas que constituyen la disciplina y defendieron el Informe final de investigación entre los cursos 2006-2007 y 2013-2014. Se realizó un Análisis Factorial, un Análisis de Conglomerados y un Análisis Discriminante para detectar las relaciones existentes dentro del conjunto de variables evaluativas de la disciplina, clasificar a los estudiantes según su rendimiento académico y predecir el resultado del estudiante en el Informe final respectivamente. Resultados: Se detectaron tres componentes principales en el conjunto de variables evaluativas de la disciplina: Bioestadística, Metodología de la Investigación e Informática. Conclusiones: Los resultados del estudio muestran que globalmente la trayectoria del rendimiento se relaciona con los resultados que se obtienen en el Informe final de Investigación, en los cuales se aplican integralmente los conocimientos y las habilidades adquiridos para el trabajo de investigación(AU)

Objective: To characterize the academic performance of the Plan D students of the Degree in Nursing in the Informatics in Health discipline at 10 de Octubre Medical School of the Havana Medical University. Methods: A quantitative, analytical, longitudinal and prospective study was carried out from the grades got by the students who took all the subjects of the discipline and who defended the final research report between the courses 2006-2007 and 2013-2014. Factorial, Cluster and Discriminant Analyses were made to detect the current relationships within the evaluative variables of the discipline, to classify the students according to their academic performance and to predict the students' result in the final report respectively. Results: Three main components of the evaluative variables of the discipline were detected: Biostatistics, Research Methodology and Informatics. Conclusions: The results of the study show that as a whole the performance is related to the results achieved in the final report of the investigation in which the acquired knowledge and skills are integrally applied(AU)

Caracterización del rendimiento académico de los estudiantes del plan de estudios D de Enfermería / Characterization of the academic performance in students of nursing plan D

A partir de las indicaciones del Ministerio de Educación Superior de transitar hacia una nueva generación de planes de estudios, surge el Plan D para la carrera de Enfermería en la búsqueda de un perfeccionamiento curricular. El trabajo expone algunos resultados finales de una investigación aprobada como Proyecto Ramal por la Dirección de Ciencia y Tecnología del Ministerio de Salud Pública con el objetivo general de caracterizar el rendimiento académico de los estudiantes en la Facultad 10 de Octubre de la Universidad de Ciencias Médicas de La Habana a partir de la realización de un estudio cuantitativo, analítico, de cohortes, longitudinal y retroprospectivo con utilización de técnicas cualitativas en el período comprendido entre los cursos académicos 2006-2007 y 2012-2013. De forma global, el rendimiento académico de los estudiantes varió significativamente según su formación como técnicos: tecnológica o emergente. Las causas que incidieron en este comportamiento son de origen multifactorial, destacándose fundamentalmente los aspectos personológicos y de vocación a la profesión(AU)

Plan D for the Nursing career arises from the search of a curricular improvement from the instructions of the Ministry of Higher Education of moving toward a new generation of syllabi. This paper shows some final results from an investigation which was approved as a Branch Project by the Office of Science and Technology of the Public Health Ministry. The general objective of this paper was to characterize the students' academic performance at 10 de Octubre Medical School (Havana Medical University). It is a cohort study, which was also quantitative, analytical, longitudinal and retroprospective with the use of qualitative techniques from the academic year 2006-2007 to 2012-2013. As a whole the academic performance of the students changed significantly according to their vocational training as technicians either technological or emergent. The causes of these results depend on many factors and the main ones are personal and vocation to the profession(AU)

Comportamiento epidemiológico de la catarata traumática en un municipio de la República Bolivariana de Venezuela. Segundo semestre 2008 / Epidemiological behavior of traumatic cataract in a municipality of Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. Second Semester, 2008

Se realizó un estudio observacional descriptivo de corte transversal con el objetivo de identificar las características epidemiológicas de la catarata traumática en el municipio Bartolomé de las Casas, Estado Zulia, Venezuela, durante el segundo semestre de 2007. El universo estuvo constituido por el total de pacientes con catarata y la muestra por aquellos con antecedentes de traumatismo ocular y diagnóstico de catarata traumática. Se estudiaron las variables edad, sexo, ocupación, tipo de traumatismo según mecanismo de producción, etiología del trauma y uso de los medios de protección. La información se obtuvo a través de la historia clínica individual, se clasificó y llevó a una base de datos confeccionada al efecto, fue analizada estadísticamente por procedimientos descriptivos. Como medidas de resumen de los datos se obtuvieron las frecuencias absolutas y relativas. Entre los principales resultados se obtuvo que el grupo de edades más afectado fue el de 30 a 44 años, predominio del sexo masculino y de ocupación obreros. Hubo más traumatismos cerrados que abiertos y la principal causa de las lesiones fueron los objetos no metálicos. La mayoría de los pacientes no usaban los medios de protección adecuados(AU)

A cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted with the goal of identifying epidemiological characteristics of traumatic cataract in Bartolomé de las Casas municipality, Zulia State, Venezuela, during the second semester, 2007. The universe of study consisted of all patients with cataract and the sample consisted of those with a history of ocular trauma and traumatic cataract diagnosis. Variables such as age, sex, occupation, type of trauma as the mechanism, etiology of injury and use of means of protection were studied. Information was obtained through the individual medical history and was ranked a database made ​​to the effect, was statistically analyzed by descriptve procedure. As summary measures of data were obtained absolute and relative frequencies. Among the main results obtained, the age group most affected was 30 to 44 years, male predominance and workers. There were more blunt trauma than open and the main cause of injuries were non-metallic objects. Most patients did not use adequate protective device(AU)

Comportamiento epidemiológico de la catarata traumática en un municipio de la República Bolivariana de Venezuela: segundo semestre 2008 / Epidemiological behavior of traumatic cataract in a municipality of Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela: second semester, 2008

Se realizó un estudio observacional descriptivo de corte transversal con el objetivo de identificar las características epidemiológicas de la catarata traumática en el municipio Bartolomé de las Casas, Estado Zulia, Venezuela, durante el segundo semestre de 2007. El universo estuvo constituido por el total de pacientes con catarata y la muestra por aquellos con antecedentes de traumatismo ocular y diagnóstico de catarata traumática. Se estudiaron las variables edad, sexo, ocupación, tipo de traumatismo según mecanismo de producción, etiología del trauma y uso de los medios de protección. La información se obtuvo a través de la historia clínica individual, se clasificó y llevó a una base de datos confeccionada al efecto, fue analizada estadísticamente por procedimientos descriptivos. Como medidas de resumen de los datos se obtuvieron las frecuencias absolutas y relativas. Entre los principales resultados se obtuvo que el grupo de edades más afectado fue el de 30 a 44 años, predominio del sexo masculino y de ocupación obreros. Hubo más traumatismos cerrados que abiertos y la principal causa de las lesiones fueron los objetos no metálicos. La mayoría de los pacientes no usaban los medios de protección adecuados.

A cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted with the goal of identifying epidemiological characteristics of traumatic cataract in Bartolomé de las Casas municipality, Zulia State, Venezuela, during the second semester, 2007. The universe of study consisted of all patients with cataract and the sample consisted of those with a history of ocular trauma and traumatic cataract diagnosis. Variables such as age, sex, occupation, type of trauma as the mechanism, etiology of injury and use of means of protection were studied. Information was obtained through the individual medical history and was ranked a database made ​​to the effect, was statistically analyzed by descriptve procedure. As summary measures of data were obtained absolute and relative frequencies. Among the main results obtained, the age group most affected was 30 to 44 years, male predominance and workers. There were more blunt trauma than open and the main cause of injuries were non-metallic objects. Most patients did not use adequate protective device.

Una caracterización del rendimiento académico en la disciplina Informática en Salud / Describing Academic Results in Informatics Applied to Medical Science

Los elementos multifacéticos que caracterizan el proceso docente-educativo requieren de técnicas de análisis apropiadas, capaces de permitir el examen simultáneo de las numerosas variables que en él intervienen. Las técnicas estadísticas del Análisis Multivariante proporcionan procedimientos adecuados a estos fines. El presente trabajo es un estudio descriptivo, longitudinal y prospectivo que da continuidad a otro trabajo publicado en el año 2007 en la Revista Cubana de Informática Médica, realizado a partir de las evaluaciones obtenidas por los estudiantes del Plan de Estudio “D” de la carrera de Licenciatura en Enfermería de la Facultad “10 de Octubre” de la Universidad de Ciencias Médicas de La Habana, que cursaron las cinco asignaturas que constituyen la disciplina Informática en Salud entre los cursos 2006-2007 y 2008-2009, con el objetivo general de caracterizar el comportamiento del rendimiento académico en esta disciplina. Se detectaron 3 componentes principales: Bioestadística, Computación e Investigación Cualitativa en Salud, y se verificó la existencia de relación entre el resultado obtenido en la asignatura final de la disciplina Informática en Salud V y sus precedentes(AU)

The multiple elements which characterize the teaching-learning process demand appropriate analysis techniques that enable a simultaneous examination of the many variables pertaining to that process. The statistics techniques in the Multivariate Analysis provide the adequate procedures for that purpose. This work presents a descriptive, longitudinal and prospective study as a follow up of another study which was published in 2007 in the Cuban Journal of Medical Informatics, and it was done taking into account the results obtained in evaluating the students from Nursing (Plan “D”) from “10 de Octubre” Faculty, Havana Medical College, after receiving the 5 subjects which constitute Informatics discipline applied to medical sciences, from the academic year 2006-2007 to 2008-2009. The main objective was to describe the behaviour of the academic results. Three main components were detected: Biostatistics, Computing and Qualitative Investigation. The existing relation betwee(AU)

Una experiencia en la evaluación del rendimiento académico en Informática en Salud / An Experience in the Evaluation of the Academic Results in Medical Informatics

Los aspectos relacionados con la comprobación y evaluación del rendimiento académico de los estudiantes y de los objetivos de la educación son motivo de apasionada discusión por parte de científicos, pedagogos y estudiosos de todo el mundo. El trabajo expone una experiencia llevada a cabo a partir del Curso Académico 2004-2005 hasta el presente en la Facultad 10 de Octubre del Instituto Superior de Ciencias Médicas de La Habana, referida a la evaluación de las asignaturas que conforman la disciplina Informática en Salud de la carrera de Licenciatura en Enfermería con el objetivo de identificar los conceptos y habilidades que presentan mayores dificultades en el proceso de enseñanza-aprendizaje y evaluar de una forma objetiva el resultado final de los estudiantes en cada asignatura. El procedimiento propuesto y la aplicación de un Análisis de Conglomerados han permitido dar respuesta a los objetivos(AU)

For years, the aspects related with the checking and evaluation of the students' academic results and the goals for their education have been the subject of many strong debates among scientists, professors and academics all over the world. This research shows an experience which was carried out in "10 de Octubre" Faculty, Havana School of Medical Sciences from the academic year 2004-2005 to 2007-2008, concerning the evaluation in the subjects that make up the curriculum in Informatics for Medical Sciences, specifically in the Nursingcareer, aiming to identify concepts and skills presenting higher degrees of difficulties in the teaching-learning process and also to evaluate the students final results on each subject. To achieve these objectives, some procedures were suggested, one of them being the Cluster Analysis(AU)

Una aproximación a la caracterización del rendimiento académico en informática en salud / An approximation to the characterization of the academic achievement in data processing in health

Los elementos multifacéticos que caracterizan el proceso docente-educativo, requieren de técnicas de análisis apropiadas, capaces de permitir el examen simultáneo de las numerosas variables que en él intervienen. Las técnicas estadísticas del Análisis Multivariante proporcionan procedimientos adecuados a estos fines.El presente trabajo es un estudio descriptivo, longitudinal y prospectivo realizado a partir de las evaluaciones obtenidas por los estudiantes de la carrera de Licenciatura en Enfermería de la Facultad 10 de Octubre del Instituto Superior de Ciencias Médicas de La Habana que cursaron las cinco asignaturas que constituyen la disciplina Informática e Investigación en Salud entre los cursos 2004-2005 hasta el 2006-2007 con el objetivo general de caracterizar el comportamiento de las evaluaciones docentes en esta disciplina. Se realizó un Análisis Factorial para detectar las relaciones existentes dentro del conjunto de variables evaluativas y simplificar estas a un número menor sin perder la capacidad explicativa de las originales y un Análisis de Conglomerados para clasificar a los estudiantes según su rendimiento docente. Se detectaron 3 componentes principales: Bioestadística, Computación y Metodología de la Investigación y se verificó la existencia de relación entre el resultado obtenido en la asignatura final de la disciplina Informática en Salud V y sus precedentes

The multipurpose elements that typify the learning process require of proper analysis techniques, able to allow the simultaneous exam of the multiple variables included in the process. The statistic techniques of the Multivariate Analysis allow adequate procedures to these purposes.This paper is a descriptive, prospective, longitudinal study, carried out of the evaluations on the Infirmary Licentiate career in the 10 de Octubre faculty of the Superior Institute of Medical Sciences of Havana on the students that went through the five subjects that match the discipline Informatics and Investigation in Health during the courses 2004-2007, with the general purpose of making a characterization of the Docency evaluations in this discipline.A Factorial Analysis was performed to detect the existent relationships in the compound of evaluative variables and to abridge them to a lesser number without losing the original's explicative capacities. It was also performed a Cluster's Analysis to classify the students in accordance to their rendering. Three main components were detected: Biostatistics, Computation and Investigation Methodology and there was a validation in the relationship between the obtained result in the Final subject of the Health's Informatics discipline and its precedents