Raquel Chaves: “I’m RISE-Health from head to toe”
Raquel Chaves is the face of the center at the University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro (UTAD) of the RISE-Health Research Unit, recently set up by CINTESIS - Center for Health Technology and Services Research and other Units, and based at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto (FMUP). Raquel Chaves, who leads UTAD's School of Life and [...]
CINTESIS Researcher Joins International Agency of the World Health Organization
Fernando Schmitt, a researcher at CINTESIS - Center for Health Technology and Services Research and coordinator of the Associate Laboratory RISE - Health Research Network and full professor at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto (FMUP), will be joining the Genetics and Genomics Subcommittee of the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), within the scope of [...]
CINTESIS/FMUP Study Evaluates Pre-Hospital Care for Trauma Victims
Acute pain caused by trauma, as a result of road accidents, falls or explosions, for example, is far from the only complaint of victims seen by hospital pre-emergency teams. In these patients, cold, fear, anxiety and immobilisation are strongly associated with the intensity of the pain. A study conducted by researchers from CINTESIS/Faculty of Medicine at the University of Porto [...]
Público // “Dementia, elections and the vote that needs no patronising”
CINTESIS researcher Pedro Machado do Santos wrote an opinion piece entitled "Dementia, elections and the vote that needs no patronising". The article was published in the Público on March 9. Read more. (in Portuguese)
New RISE-Health Research Unit Registers Over 1300 Researchers
On March 6, the new RISE-Health Research Unit completed the team registration stage. Proving that "the whole is greater than the sum of its parts", RISE-Health registered a final number of integrated researchers greater than the sum of the researchers who were already part of each of the Research Units that led to its creation - CINTESIS - Center for [...]
Study by CINTESIS Researcher Shows Most Patients Prefer to Die at Home
"Most patients at the end of their lives prefer to receive their last care and die at home, with their families, with greater autonomy and dignity. Most of the patients' relatives prefer this too." This is the conclusion of a study carried out by Sara Pinto, a researcher at CINTESIS and lecturer at the Nursing School of Porto (ESEP), recently [...]