Objective: to establish the discriminative capacity of the Finnish risk score for dysglycemia in users of a family medicine unit located in the suburbs of the State of Guerrero, Mexico. Material and methods: We conducted a cross-sectional study from March to December 2021 in a Family Medicine Unit. With prior informed consent, we applied the Finnish risk score for the detection of dysglycemia to 200 people between the ages of 20 and 60, we obtained somatometric measurements and fasting plasma glucose figures. We estimated sensitivity, specificity, positive and negative predictive value, positive and negative likelihood ratio, and calculated the area under the curve (AUC) to estimate the discriminative ability of the risk score, where the reference test was fasting glucose. We performed bivariate analysis to identify factors associated with dysglycemia, obtaining Odds Ratio (OR) and 95% c...

Objective: to establish the discriminative capacity of the Finnish risk score for dysglycemia in users of a family medicine unit located in the suburbs of the State of Guerrero, Mexico. Material and methods: We conducted a cross-sectional study from March to December 2021 in a Family Medicine Unit. With prior informed consent, we applied the Finnish risk score for the detection of dysglycemia to 200 people between the ages of 20 and 60, we obtained somatometric measurements and fasting plasma glucose figures. We estimated sensitivity, specificity, positive and negative predictive value, positive and negative likelihood ratio, and calculated the area under the curve (AUC) to estimate the discriminative ability of the risk score, where the reference test was fasting glucose. We performed bivariate analysis to identify factors associated with dysglycemia, obtaining Odds Ratio (OR) and 95% c...

Objective: To describe the use of laboratory tests by medical staff assigned to the emergency department of a hospital in Mexico. Materials and methods: A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted from March to July 2022 with data from 351 users of an emergency department. A non-probability convenience sampling was used. The sample included medical records of individuals over 18 years of age, of both sexes, who had a laboratory report and received medical attention in the emergency department in the past seven days. Pregnant women, postpartum women and individuals in shock were excluded. The variables collected from the records included sex, age, diagnosis, admission shift, type of emergency, requested analytes, documentation of laboratory report in clinical notes, analysis of laboratory results, and initiation or modification of medical treatment based on the findings. Descriptive...