Research Group: PaCeIT: Patient-Centered Innovation and Technologies
Thematic Line: TL3 – Health Data, Decision Sciences & Information Technologies
Hub: Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto
Research Areas: Asthma, Medication adherence, Retrospective studies, Multivariate analysis, Mobile health, Preventive healthcare.
Updated on 02/11/2022
Ana Sá Sousa is an integrated researcher of the research group PaCeIT – Patient-Centered Innovation and Technologies of CINTESIS.
She graduated in Biochemistry from the Faculty of Sciences/Institute of Biomedical Sciences Abel Salazar of the University of Porto, earned a Master’s Degree in Evidence and Decision in Health, and a Ph.D. in Clinical Research and Health Services (PDICSS) from the Faculty of Medicine of the University from Porto.
She has participated in several projects, namely in INAsma – National Asthma Survey, ICAR – Asthma and Rhinitis Impact and Control, CASCA – Cost-of-illness of asthma in children, and AIRDOC: Smart Mobile Application for Individualized Support and Monitoring of the Respiratory Function and Sounds of Chronic Obstructive Patients.
Her areas of interest include the development of tools with an impact on health care, such as the development and validation of asthma screening questionnaires, and more recently, the Registry of Serious Asthma in Portugal (Registo de Asma Grave em Portugal).
She believes that patients, caregivers, and citizens should be involved in health research to make possible the cocreation of solutions that meet their needs and perspectives. With that in mind, she is the principal investigator of the project ConectAR – Collaborative Network: patient and public involvement in the advancement of research in respiratory diseases and digital health.
TITLE: Adult Asthma Scores-Development and Validation of Multivariable Scores to Identify Asthma in Surveys
AUTHORS: Ana Sa Sousa; Ana Margarida Pereira; Rute Almeida; Luis Araujo; Mariana Couto; Tiago Jacinto; Alberto Freitas; Jean Bousquet; Joao A Fonseca;
SOURCE: JOURNAL OF ALLERGY AND CLINICAL IMMUNOLOGY-IN PRACTICE, VOLUME: 7, NUMBER: 1, PUBLISHED: 2019
TITLE: Data-driven prescription patterns in patients under maintenance treatment for respiratory diseases from the Portuguese prescription database
AUTHORS: Ana Sa Sousa; Rita Amaral; Rute Almeida; Alberto Freitas; Joao A Fonseca;
SOURCE: European-Respiratory-Society (ERS) International Congress in EUROPEAN RESPIRATORY JOURNAL, VOLUME: 54, PUBLISHED: 2019
TITLE: Disentangling the heterogeneity of allergic respiratory diseases by latent class analysis reveals novel phenotypes
AUTHORS: Rita Amaral; Jean Bousquet; Ana M Pereira; Luis M Araujo; Ana Sa Sousa; Tiago Jacinto; Rute Almeida; Luis Delgado; Joao A Fonseca;
SOURCE: ALLERGY, VOLUME: 74, NUMBER: 4, PUBLISHED: 2019
TITLE: High oral corticosteroid exposure and overuse of short-acting beta-2-agonists were associated with insufficient prescribing of controller medication: a nationwide electronic prescribing and dispensing database analysis
AUTHORS: Ana Sa Sousa; Rute Almeida; Ricardo Vicente; Nilton Nascimento; Henrique Martins; Alberto Freitas; Joao Almeida Fonseca;
SOURCE: CLINICAL AND TRANSLATIONAL ALLERGY, VOLUME: 9, NUMBER: 1, PUBLISHED: 2019
TITLE: Reproducibility of the Vivatmopro measurements for exhaled nitric oxide values
AUTHORS: Rita Amaral; Cristina Jacome; Rute Almeida; Ana Sa Sousa; Bernardo Pinho; Rui Guedes; Tiago Jacinto; Joao Fonseca;
SOURCE: European-Respiratory-Society (ERS) International Congress in EUROPEAN RESPIRATORY JOURNAL, VOLUME: 54, PUBLISHED: 2019