Integrated clinical approach. Considerations regarding a serious case of multiple echinococcosis

• Autor(a) principal: David de Morais, J. A.
• Data de Publicação: 2006
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://revista.spmi.pt/index.php/rpmi/article/view/1662
• topic: Abordagem Clínica Integrada; hidatidose; “Medicina Baseada na Evidência”; Clinical Approach; echinococcosis; “Evidence-Based Medicine”

The author counts himself among the internal medical practitioners that have taken a serious interest in the growing “programming” of the clinical practice, bearing in mind that utilizing the guidelines and “Evidence-Based Medicine” - often in an uncritical and passive manner – has contributed significantly for a standardized approach to the treatment of patients. On the other hand, there are more and more important breakthroughs in Biomedical Research (immunology, immunogenetics, etc.) and medical practitioners are slow in integrating these breakthroughs into their daily clinical practice. For this reason, this study proposes a holistic handling of the patient — which the author calls Integrated Clinical Approach — and, to illustrate this “methodology” in a concrete manner, he offers an example of the study and treatment of a serious case of multiple cystic echinococcosis.