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Results of a dental care protocol for mentally handicapped patients set in a primary health care area in Spain

2007

Objective: Disabled people have the same right as other people to receive the health care they need, but they sometimes have difficulties to achieve it. In Castilla y Leon it has come into effect a law to guarantee Primary and Secondary Care coordination to provide dental treatment under sedation or anaesthesia to mentally disabled people who need it. Our aim is to evaluate the results of the implementation of such a law through a specific protocol in our health setting. Study design: Descriptive, made in a Health Area over a year, on mentally disabled people who were sent to hospital for treatment under anaesthesia after Primary Dental Care Units assessment. It has been studied the age, ge…

Calidad de la farmacoterapia y seguridad de los pacientes en hemodiálisis tratados con estimulantes eritropoyéticos

2008

Objective: To assess an interdisciplinary programme for the improvement of pharmacotherapy quality and patient safety in patients with chronic renal disease who are treated with erythropoiesis-stimulating agents. Method: Observational, longitudinal study. Retrospective analysis (period A) and prospective analysis (period B) following implementation of the programme for haemoglobin values and monthly erythropoiesis- stimulating agent dosage. The proportion of patients with haemoglobin values within the target range (10-5-12.5 g/dl) and those with values above the safety limit (≥ 12.5g/dl) were compared every four months and the average percentage of time with haemoglobin values within the ta…

Eiwei�chemische und immunologische Untersuchungen bei Hautkranken

1965

254 GENERALIZED SOMATOSENSORY CHANGES IN PATIENTS WITH TEMPOROMANDIBULAR DISORDER

2007

Reduced cerebral DOPA uptake in adult patients suffering from phenylketonuria

2006

Motivation zur psychosomatisch-psychotherapeutischen Bearbeitung von beruflichen Belastungen - Entwicklung und Validierung eines Fragebogens

2005

Background There is a lack of questionnaires assessing the motivation of inpatients to scrutinize occupational stresses and deal with them as part of their psychotherapeutic treatment. Work-related stress contributes significantly to the development of mental disorders. Vocational reintegration is an outcome criterion for the success of vocational rehabilitation. Patients are often not motivated for dealing with occupational stresses during inpatient medical rehabilitation. Therefore it is necessary to assess patient motivation at the beginning of treatment, in order to assign them to specific interventions, e. g. promoting motivation. Method A questionnaire (Fragebogen zur berufsbezogenen …

Multicenter analysis of serum tumor markers, treatment patterns, and relapse in patients with testicular cancer in clinical stage IS.

2020

5052 Background: Testicular germ cell tumors (TGCT) in clinical stage I (CSI) are tumors confined to the testis without evidence of metastasis. Around 50% of all TGCT patients present with elevated serum tumor markers (TM) such as alpha-feto protein (AFP), beta-humanochoriongonadotropin (ß-HCG) and lactate-dehydrogenase (LDH). After ablatio testis, TMs usually return to normal according to half-life kinetics, however, in clinical stage IS (CSIS) TMs remain elevated or increase after surgery. Follow-up data on CSIS is scarce and our study aims to assess clinical characteristics and oncologic outcomes in a large TGCT cohort. Methods: In this multicenter study we collected data from 5 tertiar…

Determinants of between-hospital variations in outcomes for patients admitted with COPD exacerbations: findings from a nationwide clinical audit (AUD…

2015

Background Previous studies have demonstrated significant variability in the processes of care and outcomes of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) exacerbations. The AUDIPOC is a Spanish nationwide clinical audit that identified large between-hospital variations in care and clinical outcomes. Here, we test the hypothesis that these variations can be attributed to either patient characteristics, hospital characteristics and/or the so-called hospital-clustering effect, which indicates that patients with similar characteristics may experience different processes of care and outcomes depending on the hospital to which they are admitted. Methods A clinical audit of 5178 COPD patients co…

Right Heart Dysfunction and Readmission Risk Across Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction Status in Patients With Acute Heart Failure.

2021

BACKGROUND: Right heart dysfunction (RHD) parameters are increasingly important in heart failure (HF). This study aimed to evaluate the association of advanced RHD with the risk of recurrent admissions across the spectrum of left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF). METHODS AND RESULTS: We included 3383 consecutive patients discharged for acute HF. Of them, in 1435 patients (42.4%), the pulmonary artery systolic pressure could not be measured accurately, leaving a final sample size of 1948 patients. Advanced RHD was defined as the combination of a ratio of tricuspid annular plane systolic excursion/pulmonary artery systolic pressure of less than 0.36 and significant tricuspid regurgitation…

Impacto de la formación educativa de los enfermeros sobre la comunicación, la inteligencia emocional y la empatía

2019

ABSTRACT Objective: To determine the influence of nurse education and training on attitudes towards communication, emotional intelligence, and empathy. Method: A cross-sectional study was conducted using three separate instruments to measure attitudes towards communication, empathy, and emotional intelligence, and two questions to determine the academic qualifications of the study participants. The effect of the variables was tested using one-way ANOVA, Pearson correlations, and hierarchical multiple linear regression. Results: The study sample comprised 438 nurses from hospitals in Valencia, Spain. Differences in subscale scores of the instruments according to degree level and specialized …