Objetivo: Describir características microbiológicas de las infecciones en pacientes pediátricos con cáncer en un centro de referencia del Eje Cafetero Colombiano 2014 – 2016. Materiales y métodos. Estudio descriptivo, corte transversal de pacientes oncológicos menores de 18 años hospitalizados en una institución de referencia en Colombia; los cuales hayan presentado una infección y se les haya realizado un cultivo con antibiograma. La ficha de recolección validada por expertos es reportada a través de WHONET 5.6. Análisis estadísticos descriptivos fueron realizados con STATA 14.2, versión oficial. Resultados. 2691 cultivos de 596 pacientes fueron incluidos. 53,86% correspondió a sexo masculino, la edad media fue de 8,86 años. El 76,89% de los cultivos se realizaron en el área de hospitalización. El 74,36% de los cultivos fueron de sangre, con un 22,04% de reportes pos...

Immunization is one of the most important advances in medicine, achieving protection against numerous microorganisms that have put the health of the population at risk for centuries and is currently one of the main health prevention strategies; Recently, with the appearance of COVID-19, a before and after has been marked, since vaccination has regained visibility and importance after the pandemic. However, despite the available evidence, there is limited dissemination and promotion of vaccination in the adult, a situation that generates low coverage in this population. The current global context sets an urgent call to strengthen the implementation of vaccination plans and strategies not only in the pediatric population, but also in the adult population, so the objective of this narrative review is to synthesize the current recommendations for vaccination in the population. from Colombia ...

Objective. The objective of the study was to explore predictive variables of mortality in patients with COPD in Colombia. Materials and methods. Case-control study, in adult patients, diagnosed with COPD, treated at the clínica Comfamiliar, Risaralda, from January 1, 2015 to December 31, 2018. Deceased patients were called cases, and the control group was survivors. A data collection instrument validated by expert judgement was used. A multivariate logistic regression analysis was performed, followed by post-modeling analysis for validation. The analyzes were carried out in Stata 14, official version. It was considered significant with p value <0.05. The project was approved by the bioethics committee of the clínica Comfamiliar. Results. 230 patients with a diagnosis of COPD were included. The mortality rate was 10%, for which there were 23 cases. In the multivariate analysis, the p...