Isolating the climate change impacts on air-pollution-related-pathologies over central and southern Europe – a modelling approach on cases and costs

Air pollution has important implications for human health and associated external costs to society and is closely related to climate change. This contribution tries to assess the impacts of present (1996-2015) and future (2071-2100 under RCP8.5) air pollution on several cardiovascular and respiratory pathologies and estimate the difference in the costs associated with these health impacts on the European population. For this, air quality data from the regional chemistry-climate modelling system of the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model coupled with Chemistry (WRF-Chem) are used, together with some epidemiological information from the European Commission. The methodology considered…

Impacto de una unidad de corta estancia en un hospital de tercer nivel

Resumen Objetivo Analizar los indicadores de actividad asistencial de una unidad de corta estancia (UCE) y comparar estos indicadores con los de otros servicios de hospitalizacion convencional. Material y metodos Estudio descriptivo retrospectivo de los pacientes ingresados en la UCE durante el periodo 2003–2007. Se analizo el numero de ingresos, la estancia media, la mortalidad y el destino. Se comparo la estancia media y el numero de ingresos de los principales grupos relacionados con el diagnostico (GRD) de la UCE en relacion con otros servicios de hospitalizacion convencional. Resultados Un 15,3% de los enfermos que acudieron a la urgencia fue ingresado en la UCE. La estancia media fue …

Sociodemographic characteristics of female habitual benzodiazepine consumers in the catchment area of a health care centre.

Effect of antiviral treatment in older patients hospitalized with confirmed influenza

Abstract Seasonal influenza causes significant morbidity and mortality in people aged ≥65 years. Antiviral treatment can reduce complications and disease severity. The objective of this study was to investigate the effect of antiviral treatment in patients aged ≥65 years hospitalized with confirmed influenza in preventing intensive care unit (ICU) admission or death. A retrospective cohort study was carried out in 20 hospitals from seven Spanish regions during 2013–2015 in patients aged ≥65 years. Hospitalized cases of laboratory-confirmed influenza were selected. To assess the association between antiviral treatment and ICU admission or death, the adjusted odds ratios (aOR) and their 95% c…