Continuous quality improvement through use of perinatal clinical record and AGUSTINA database.

UNLABELLED: This paper reviews the development of the field of medical informatics in Latin America. It also describes the results of a computer-based data management system, named AGUSTINA, which is comprised of maternal and infant data on 7570 deliveries that occurred between June, 1990 and December, 1996 in a hospital in the surroundings of Buenos Aires, Argentina. These data were fundamental for the instrumentation of preventive community-oriented activities in the area. Finally, this paper describes recommendations for future actions in the area of medical informatics in Latin America. ABBREVIATIONS: PCR: perinatal clinical record; CLAP, Centro Latino-Americano de Perinato-logia; WHO, World Health Organization; PAHO, Pan-American Health Organization; E-Mail, electronic mail; WWW, world wide web; FTP, file transfer protocol.

EFEITO DA APLICAÇÃO PRÉVIA DE ETHEPHON EM AMEIXEIRA (Prunus salicina Lindl) E DO IBA NO ENRAIZAMENTO DE SUAS ESTACAS

The work was carried out in a greenhouse with intermitent mist to verify the effect of ethephon (2-chloroetyl phosphonic acid) in plants, applied one week before of branch collection, and later treatment with indolebutyric acid (IBA) on rooting of cuttings of Frontier, Reubennel, Ace, Songold, Beauty and Roxa de Itaquera cultivars. The plants were sprayed with ethephon at 0 (zero); 50 and 100 mg.l-1 concentrations. Branches of the year from eight years old plants were collected and from them median cuttings departed with 15cm lenght and two leaves. Later, they were treated with IBA at 0 (zero) and 3000 mg.l-1 concentrations for 5 seconds immersion. The cuttings were packed in polietylene bags containing vermiculite with substrate. Ethephon increased the rooting percentage of Beauty cultivar and the IBA increased the rooting percentage of Roxa de Itaquera, Songold and Beauty cultivars. Different rooting potential among of plum cultivars was verified and the best ones were Frontier and Ace.

O experimento foi realizado em casa de vegetação com nebulização intermitente com o objetivo de verificar o efeito do ethephon, aplicado às plantas, e do ácido indolbutírico no enraizamento de estacas de ramos das cultivares Frontier, Reubennel, Ace, Songold, Beauty e Roxa de Itaquera. As plantas foram pulverizadas com ethephon (ácido 2-cloroetil fosfônico) nas concentrações de 0 (zero), 50 e 100 mg.l-1. Foram coletados ramos do ano e destes, retirou-se estacas medianas, com comprimento de 15cm e um par de folhas, as quais foram tratadas com ácido indolbutírico (IBA) de formulação líquida nas concentrações de 0 (zero) e 3000 mg.l-1, com tempo de imersão de 5 segundos. As estacas foram acondicionadas em sacos de polietileno contendo vermiculita como substrato. Observou-se que o ethephon aumentou o percentual de enraizamento da cultivar Beauty e o IBA aumentou o percentual de enraizamento das cultivares Roxa de Itaquera, Songold e Beauty. Concluiu-se ainda que existe diferença de potencial de enraizamento entre as cultivares de ameixeira, sendo que apresentaram maior enraizamento as cultivares Frontier e a Ace.

EFEITO DA APLICAÇÃO PRÉVIA DE ETHEPHON EM AMEIXEIRA (Prunus salicina Lindl) E DO IBA NO ENRAIZAMENTO DE SUAS ESTACAS

The work was carried out in a greenhouse with intermitent mist to verify the effect of ethephon (2-chloroetyl phosphonic acid) in plants, applied one week before of branch collection, and later treatment with indolebutyric acid (IBA) on rooting of cuttings of Frontier, Reubennel, Ace, Songold, Beauty and Roxa de Itaquera cultivars. The plants were sprayed with ethephon at 0 (zero); 50 and 100 mg.l-1 concentrations. Branches of the year from eight years old plants were collected and from them median cuttings departed with 15cm lenght and two leaves. Later, they were treated with IBA at 0 (zero) and 3000 mg.l-1 concentrations for 5 seconds immersion. The cuttings were packed in polietylene bags containing vermiculite with substrate. Ethephon increased the rooting percentage of Beauty cultivar and the IBA increased the rooting percentage of Roxa de Itaquera, Songold and Beauty cultivars. Different rooting potential among of plum cultivars was verified and the best ones were Frontier and Ace.

O experimento foi realizado em casa de vegetação com nebulização intermitente com o objetivo de verificar o efeito do ethephon, aplicado às plantas, e do ácido indolbutírico no enraizamento de estacas de ramos das cultivares Frontier, Reubennel, Ace, Songold, Beauty e Roxa de Itaquera. As plantas foram pulverizadas com ethephon (ácido 2-cloroetil fosfônico) nas concentrações de 0 (zero), 50 e 100 mg.l-1. Foram coletados ramos do ano e destes, retirou-se estacas medianas, com comprimento de 15cm e um par de folhas, as quais foram tratadas com ácido indolbutírico (IBA) de formulação líquida nas concentrações de 0 (zero) e 3000 mg.l-1, com tempo de imersão de 5 segundos. As estacas foram acondicionadas em sacos de polietileno contendo vermiculita como substrato. Observou-se que o ethephon aumentou o percentual de enraizamento da cultivar Beauty e o IBA aumentou o percentual de enraizamento das cultivares Roxa de Itaquera, Songold e Beauty. Concluiu-se ainda que existe diferença de potencial de enraizamento entre as cultivares de ameixeira, sendo que apresentaram maior enraizamento as cultivares Frontier e a Ace.

Medical informatics in perinatology project AGUSTINA in Argentina.

This paper reviews the development of the field of medical informatics in Latin America. It also describes the preliminary results of a computer-based data management system, named AGUSTINA, which is comprised of maternal and infant data on 6195 deliveries that occurred between June 1990 and December 1995 in a hospital in the surroundings of Buenos Aires, Argentina. These data were fundamental for the instrumentation of preventive community-oriented activities in the area. Finally, this paper describes recommendations for future actions in the area of medical informatics in Latin America.