Introduction: Absenteeism from work in public or private institutions is classified as one of the main labor problems. Objective: To determine the association between occupational disease and work absenteeism at the Hospital Policial Augusto Belisario Leguía, in the years 2017-2018. Methodology: A descriptive, cross-sectional, and qualitative-quantitative retrospective study in a convenience sample of 79 medical breaks with a diagnosis of occupational diseases of police health personnel. Collecting data was used. Results: The highest work absenteeism occurred in female patients, married, over 50 years of age, technical nursing profession and with a work seniority of more than 20 years. A global absenteeism rate of 7.56% (2017) and 6.39% (2018) was obtained, a severity index of 25.12 days (2017) and 26.43 days (2018). Conclusions: Occupational diseases ...

Introduction: Absenteeism from work in public or private institutions is classified as one of the main labor problems. Objective: To determine the association between occupational disease and work absenteeism at the Hospital Policial Augusto Belisario Leguía, in the years 2017-2018. Methodology: A descriptive, cross-sectional, and qualitative-quantitative retrospective study in a convenience sample of 79 medical breaks with a diagnosis of occupational diseases of police health personnel. Collecting data was used. Results: The highest work absenteeism occurred in female patients, married, over 50 years of age, technical nursing profession and with a work seniority of more than 20 years. A global absenteeism rate of 7.56% (2017) and 6.39% (2018) was obtained, a severity index of 25.12 days (2017) and 26.43 days (2018). Conclusions: Occupational diseases ...

El propósito de la investigación fue identificar las causas y enfermedades del ausentismo laboral, el objetivo fue determinar las enfermedades profesionales asociadas al ausentismo laboral del personal de salud policial, del Hospital Augusto B. Leguía. La Metodología investigación aplicada, cuantitativo, no experimental, descriptivo, comparativo de corte transversal y retrospectiva, la muestra de 79 descansos médicos con diagnóstico de Enfermedades Profesionales, se usó la técnica de levantamiento de datos. Resultados, se obtuvo Tasa Global de Ausentismo 7,56% (2017) y 6,39% (2018), Índice de Gravedad. 25,12 días (2017) y 26.43 días (2018). La clasificación de Ausentismo laboral del personal de salud del Hospital Augusto B. Leguía refleja los permisos legales como primera causa, con más del 50% en ambos años de estudio (2017 de 59,01% y 2018 de 61,68%), seguido por enferm...

Aborda las características de los pacientes obesos en los que se utilizará la videolaringoscopia para la intubación endotraqueal en el Centro Quirúrgico del Hospital Nacional LNS PNP. Para ello, se realizó un estudio prospectivo, longitudinal, descriptivo, observacional. Diseño de una cohorte. Se encontró el 2,21% de obesidad entre los policías evaluados, de los cuales el 43,3% se consideró intubación difícil y se utilizó la videolaringoscopia para la intubación. Respecto a los predictores de Intubación difícil el test de mordida del labio superior es el único predictor de asociación de protección en nuestro trabajo. Se concluye que las características de pacientes que requirieron videolaringoscopia en el HCPNP fueron aquellos con IMC > 35. No hubo diferencia de sexo, mallampati III y IV; distancia tiromentoniana III, IV; distancia esternomentoniana III, IV.

Objective: The objective of this study was to determine the sociocultural factors in 50-year-old users for Pap smears at the Ricardo Cruzado Rivarola de Nasca hospital during the period December 2021 - February 2022. Material and Methods: Observational, analytical, and prospective study. The study population is made up of 80 50-year-old users who attend the Ricardo Cruzado Rivarola hospital for Pap tests at the gynecology-obstetrics office and the sample is 67 users, selected by non-probabilistic sampling for convenience. Results: For the first analysis, in simple and multiple regression, it was found that women with high levels of knowledge had a 384% and 382% higher frequency of having ever undergone a PAP test compared to those with low levels of knowledge. Conclusions: The level of knowledge about the PAP has a relevant influence on having carried out a PAP; but also the women...

Introducción y objetivo. En los casos de rinoplastia con desviación septal, el diagnóstico clínico por parte del especialista es parte medular de la conducta a tomar, ya sea clínica o quirúrgica, debido a que la obstrucción nasal que suele ocasionar esta patología es uno de los síntomas más frecuentes, siendo esta la primera indicación de cirugía nasal no estética. El objetivo del presente trabajo es determinar la concordancia entre el diagnóstico clínico y radiográfico en pacientes sometidos a septoplastia en una clínica especializada de Lima, Perú, durante el periodo 2020 - 2021. Material y método. Estudio observacional, cuantitativo, analítico de concordancia retrospectivo. Mediante muestreo no probabilístico por conveniencia, se toman todos los pacientes con diagnóstico clínico de desviación septal y estudios radiográficos intervenidos quirúrgicamente de sep...

The treatment of corneal lesions continues to be a topic of great interest. However, despite the development of new technologies and due to the slow evolution and uncertain healing of corneal lesions, they still represent a public health problem since patients can be affected for life, affecting the family and the health system due to the costly and uncertain response to treatment. For this reason, the need arises to seek therapeutic alternatives to treat these patients.

OBJECTIVE: To determine the factors associated with anxiety in medical interns at a private university in the context of the covid-19 pandemic. METHODS: The study design is quantitative, observational, analytical, retrospective, cross-sectional. The sample was comprised of 343 human medicine interns, who were selected by a non-probabilistic snowball type sampling. The Coronavirus Anxiety Scale instrument was used for the diagnosis of anxiety. A Poisson regression model with robust bivariate and multiple variances was used to calculate the prevalence ratio and their respective 95% confidence intervals. RESULTS: The prevalence of anxiety and severe depressive symptoms of 22.74% and 6.71% respectively was found. Depressive symptoms RPa 3.274 (95% CI 1.06 - 10.09), having children RPa 2.61 (95% CI 1.26 - 5.38), and the diagnosis of COVID-19 in the last 12 months RPa 2.20 (95% CI 1.25 - 3.87)...