Uruguayan Medical Journal Award - Roemmers Laboratory 2004-2005

Abstract

In accordance with the bases published in volume 14, number 2, 1999, of the magazine, with the corresponding correction published in the magazine Noticias, number 94, page 92, the list of original articles that meet the requirements to compete in the Medical Journal of Uruguay Award - Roemmers Laboratory 2004-2005:

Volume 20, number 1

1) Production of hydroxyl radicals in blood in hypertensive elderly patients

2) Planning a day surgery unit

3) Cancer pain: an unsolved problem. Survey of resident physicians at Hospital Maciel

4) Severe head injury in children. Interdisciplinary follow-up

5) Research on cardiovascular risk factors in Uruguay

6) Methodological experience in neonatal screening for hyperphenylalaninemia. Institute of Medical Genetics (Italian Hospital)

Volume 20, number 2

7) Control of an epidemic outbreak of meningococcal disease by N. meningitidis serogroup B

8) Thrombophilia and recurrent pregnancy loss

9) Importance of anemia in colorectal cancer

Volume 20, number 3

10) Causes of traffic accidents from a perspective of social medicine. The alcohol-transit binomial

11) Survival of patients with stage IV non-small cell lung cancer. Possible benefit of chemotherapy in healthcare practice

12) Exposure to the herbicide glyphosate: clinical toxicological aspects

13) Anatomical bases of the periinsular hemispherotomy

Volume 21, number 1

14) Serotypes, plasmid profile and antibiotypes of Shigella flexneri strains isolated from children under 5 years of age with Bloody diarrhea users of Public Health services

15) Prevalence of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and its main risk factors: PLATINO project in Montevideo

16) Prospective study of a group of children with short stature or decreased growth speed, or both

17) Child maltreatment and sexual abuse

Volume 21, number 2

18) Survival analysis of a population with breast cancer and its relationship with prognostic factors: study of 1,311 patients followed for 230 months Multidisciplinary teamwork

19) Histopathological alterations of the nasal epithelium in patients Chronic respiratory tests

20) Results of the application of the psychological autopsy to the study of suicide in children and adolescents in Uruguay

Volume 21, number 3

21) Evaluation of the chromogenic medium CHROMagar CandidaTM for the identification of yeasts of medical interest. Multidisciplinary teamwork

22) Post-prostatectomy irradiation of prostate cancer. A preliminary analysis

23) Epidemiological characteristics of a population that accessed the Uterine Cancer Prevention Program in Uruguay

24) Seroprevalence for human immunodeficiency viruses, hepatitis B and C in injection drug users. Uruguay, 2003

25) Referral of pediatric patients to intensive care units: four-year study in a Collective Medical Assistance Institution

26) Urinary infection in children: imaging evaluation

27) Prevalence of high lipoprotein (a) concentrations in complicated pregnancies with growth restriction fetal intrauterine

Volume 21, number 4

28) Informed consent. Critical analysis of its application in a surgical service

29) Clinical characteristics of presentation and follow-up of a cohort of 121 patients with chronic ulcerative colitis in Uruguay

30) Clinical characteristics of presentation and evolution of a cohort of 48 patients with Crohn's disease in Uruguay

31) Trauma and Esophageal perforations: ten years of experience

32) Strategies for the diagnosis of late neonatal sepsis

Editor's Note: Four articles were eliminated for not complying with the requirements of the regulation, some more could be eliminated if the same as the previous ones were confirmed. The prizes will be in Uruguayan pesos. The original articles published in 2004 and 2005 will compete. The tribunal will be formed in the first quarter of 2006. After the task of the tribunal is completed, the date of the awards will be reported in the next publication. The decision will be communicated on the day of the awards ceremony, being secret until that moment and known only to the court.