OBJECTIVE: To analyze standardization of gastric lavage protocols in the diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis in children. METHODS: A systematic review was conducted for the period between 1968 and 2008 in the following databases: LILACS, SCIELO and MEDLINE. The search strategy included the following terms: “gastric lavage and tuberculosis” or “gastric washing and tuberculosis” with the restriction of “children aged up to 15 years;” “gastric lavage and tuberculosis and childhood” or “gastric washing and tuberculosis and childhood.” There were retrieved 80 […]

The objective of the article was to assess methodologies published and applied in calculating mortality attributable to smoking. A review of the literature was made for the period 1990 to 2006, in the electronic databases MEDLINE and LILACS. A total of 186 studies were found, which measured mortality based on calculating the smoking-attributable risk. Of these, a total of 41 were selected. The studies that were carried out in the United States and Canada presented a more standard methodology and […]

Interest in complementary and alternative medicine has increased, especially among oncology patients. A systematic literature review of the profile of patients who choose to use this type of medicine, as well as their motivations, was carried out on the PubMed database. For this search, the key words used were ?cancer and complementary alternative medicine? and ?oncology and complementary alternative medicine?, covering the period between 1995 and 2005. The selection criteria were the following: key words were present in the article […]