• The Risk of Hospitalization in COVID-19 Patients Can Be Predicted by Lung Ultrasound in Primary Care 

  Martínez Redondo, Javier; Comas Rodríguez, Carles; Pujol Salud, Jesús; Crespo Pons, Montserrat; García-Serrano, Cristina; Ortega Bravo, Marta; Palacín Peruga, Jose María (MDPI, 2021)

• Clinical Usefulness of Anthropometric Indices to Predict the Presence of Prediabetes. Data from the ILERVAS Cohort 

  Sánchez, Marta; Sánchez Peña, Enric; Bermúdez López, Marcelino; Torres, Gerard; Farràs-Sallés, Cristina; Pamplona Gras, Reinald; Castro-Boqué, Eva; Valdivielso Revilla, José Manuel; Purroy Garcia, Francisco; Martínez Alonso, Montserrat; Godoy i García, Pere; Mauricio Puente, Dídac; Fernández i Giráldez, Elvira; Hernández García, Marta; Rius, Ferran; Lecube Torelló, Albert (MDPI, 2021-03-23)

  Prediabetes is closely related to excess body weight and adipose distribution. For this reason, we aimed to assess and compare the diagnostic usefulness of ten anthropometric adiposity indices to predict prediabetes. ...

• COVID infection displaces serious cardiovascular disease from the resuscitation room 

  Yuguero Torres, Oriol; Guzmán, Marianela; Vidal, Carmel; Pardos, César; Gros Navés, Silvia; Viladrosa, Maria (SAGE, 2021)

  The SARS-COV2 Pandemic has required the emergency departments to focus their attention and care to COVID-19-diagnosed patients over patients with other pathologies. Descriptive study of patients attended in the resuscitation ...

• The Use of Multiple Correspondence Analysis to Explore Associations between Categories of Qualitative Variables and Cancer Incidence 

  Florensa Cazorla, Dídac; Godoy i García, Pere; Mateo Fornés, Jordi; Solsona Tehàs, Francesc; Pedrol, Tere; Mesas, Miquel; Pinol, Ramon (IEEE, 2021)

  Background: Previous works have shown that risk factors for some kinds of cancer depend on people's lifestyle (e.g. rural or urban residence). This article looks into this, seeking relationships between cancer, age group, ...

• Dermatological Manifestations in the Intensive Care Unit: A Practical Approach 

  Badia Castello, Mariona; Casanova i Seuma, Josep M. (Josep Manel); Servià Goixart, Lluís; Montserrat, Neus; Codina, Jordi; Trujillano Cabello, Javier (Hindawi, 2020-09-26)

  Dermatological problems are not usually related to intensive medicine because they are considered to have a low impact on the evolution of critical patients. Despite this, dermatological manifestations (DMs) are relatively ...

• Dilemas éticos de una estudiante de medicina ante la eutanasia. ¿Estaremos preparados los médicos del futuro? 

  Vilella, Judith; Yuguero Torres, Oriol (Viguera Editores, 2020)

• Suicide, the main cause of referral of patients from a general hospital for psychiatric evaluation 

  Gómez, Elena; Guzmán, Marianela; Yuguero Torres, Oriol (Heighten Science Publications Corporation (HSPC), 2021)

  Introduction: Psychiatric emergencies constitute between 1% - 10% of general emergencies in Spain, of which a quarter will end up being hospital admissions. There is little literature on patients who are referred from ...

• Diabetic and dyslipidaemic morbidly obese exhibit more liver alterations compared with healthy morbidly obese 

  Pardina, Eva; Ferrer, Roser; Rossell, Joana; Baena-Fustegueras, Juan A; Lecube Torelló, Albert; Fort, José Manuel; Caubet, Enric; González, Óscar; Vilallonga, Ramón; Vargas, Víctor; Balibrea, José María; Peinado-Onsurbe, Julia (Elsevier, 2016)

  Background & aims: To study the origin of fat excess in the livers of morbidly obese (MO) individuals, we analysed lipids and lipases in both plasma and liver and genes involved in lipid transport, or related with, in that ...

• Higher Accuracy of Lung Ultrasound over Chest X-ray for Early Diagnosis of COVID-19 Pneumonia 

  Martínez Redondo, Javier; Comas Rodríguez, Carles; Pujol Salud, Jesús; Crespo Pons, Montserrat; García Serrano, Cristina; Ortega Bravo, Marta; Palacín Peruga, Jose María (MDPI, 2021)

  Background: The COVID-19 pandemic rapidly strained healthcare systems worldwide. The reference standard for diagnosis is a positive reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RTPCR) test, but results are not immediate ...

• Calculation of iris-claw IOL power for correction of late in-the-bag IOL complex dislocation 

  Huerva, Valentín; Ascaso, Francisco J.; Caral, Isabel; Grzybowski, Andrzej (BMC, 2017)

  Background: To assess the constants and formula for aphakia correction with iris-claw IOLs to achieve the best refractive status in cases of late in-the-bag IOL complex dislocation. Methods: A literature search was performed. ...

• Epidemiology, Etiology, and Prevention of Late IOL-Capsular Bag Complex Dislocation: Review of the Literature 

  Ascaso, Francisco J.; Huerva, Valentín; Grzybowski, Andrzej (Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2015)

  Posterior chamber intraocular lens (PC-IOL) subluxation is uncommon but represents one of the most serious complications following phacoemulsification. Late spontaneous IOL-capsular bag complex dislocation is defined as ...

• Importance of assessing CK19 immunostaining in core biopsies in patients subjected to sentinel node study by OSNA 

  Vilardell, Felip; Novell Álvarez, Anna; Martin, Javier; Santacana, Maria; Velasco Sánchez, Ana; Díez-Castro, M. J.; Cuevas, Dolors; Panadés, Maria José; González, Serafín; Llombart, Antonio; Iglesias Martínez, Eldemiro; Matias-Guiu, Xavier (Springer, 2012)

  Analysis of sentinel lymph node (SLN) by means of One-Step Nucleic Acid Amplification (OSNA) is being used increasingly as a very sensitive and quick method for intraoperative axillary staging in patients with breast ...

• Trends and patterns in the use of computed tomography in children and young adults in Catalonia — results from the EPI-CT study 

  Bosch de Basea, Magda; Salotti, Jane A.; Pearce, Mark S.; Muchart, Jordi; Riera, Luis; Barber, Ignasi; Pedraza, Salvador; Pardina Solano, Marina Asunción; Capdevila, Antoni; Espinosa, Ana; Cardis, Elisabeth (Springer, 2016)

  Background Although there are undeniable diagnostic benefits of CT scanning, its increasing use in paediatric radiology has become a topic of concern regarding patient radioprotection. Objective To assess the rate of CT ...

• Cumplimiento del estudio de contactos de personals diagnosticadas de VIH/ITS en las comarcas de Lleida 

  Vilela, Álvaro; Bach, Pilar; Godoy i García, Pere (Ministerio de Sanidad, Servicios Sociales e Igualdad, 2019)

  Fundamentos: El estudio de contactos constituye una de las principales actividades de vigilancia epidemiológica en salud pública. El objetivo principal de este estudio fue estimar el grado de su cumplimiento por parte de ...

• Multi-organ point-of-care ultrasound for COVID-19 (PoCUS4COVID): international expert consensus 

  Hussain, Arif; Via, Gabriele; Melniker, Lawrence; Gof, Alberto; Tavazzi, Guido; Neri, Luca; Villen, Tomas; Hoppmann, Richard; Mojoli, Francesco; Noble, Vicki; Zieleskiewicz, Laurent; Blanco, Pablo; Ma, Irene W. Y.; Wahab, Mahathar Abd.; Alsaawi, Abdulmohsen; Salamah, Majid Al; Balik, Martin; Barca, Diego; Bendjelid, Karim; Bouhemad, Belaid; Bravo‑Figueroa, Pablo; Breitkreutz, Raoul; Calderon, Juan; Connolly, Jim; Copetti, Roberto; Corradi, Francesco; Dean, Anthony J.; Denault, André; Govil, Deepak; Graci, Carmela; Ha, Young‑Rock; Hurtado, Laura; Kameda, Toru; Lanspa, Michael; Laursen, Christian B.; Lee, Francis; Liu, Rachel; Meineri, Massimiliano; Montorfano, Miguel; Nazerian, Peiman; Nelson, Bret P.; Neskovic, Aleksandar N.; Nogue Bou, Ramon Maria; Osman, Adi; Pazeli, José; Pereira‑Junior, Elmo; Petrovic, Tomislav; Pivetta, Emanuele; Poelaert, Jan; Price, Susanna; Prosen, Gregor; Rodriguez, Shalim; Rola, Philippe; Royse, Colin; Chen, Yale Tung; Wells, Mike; Wong, Adrian; Xiaoting, Wang; Zhen, Wang; Arabi, Yaseen (BMC, 2020)

  COVID-19 has caused great devastation in the past year. Multi-organ point-of-care ultrasound (PoCUS) including lung ultrasound (LUS) and focused cardiac ultrasound (FoCUS) as a clinical adjunct has played a signifcant role ...

• Machine learning techniques for mortality prediction in critical traumatic patients: anatomic and physiologic variables from the RETRAUCI study 

  Servià Goixart, Lluís; Montserrat, Neus; Badia Castello, Mariona; Llompart-Pou, Juan Antonio; Barea-Mendoza, Jesús Abelardo; Chico-Fernández, Mario; Sánchez-Casado, Marcelino; Jiménez, José Manuel; Mayor, Dolores María; Trujillano Cabello, Javier (BMC, 2020-10-20)

  Interest in models for calculating the risk of death in traumatic patients admitted to ICUs remains high. These models use variables derived from the deviation of physiological parameters and/or the severity of anatomical ...

• Usefulness of clinical definitions of influenza for public health surveillance purposes 

  Domínguez, Ángela; Soldevila, Núria; Torner, Núria; Martínez, Ana; Godoy i García, Pere; Rius, Cristina; Jané, Mireia (MDPI, 2020)

  This study investigated the performance of various case definitions and influenza symptoms in a primary healthcare sentinel surveillance system. A retrospective study of the clinical and epidemiological characteristics of ...

• Meningococcal disease and vaccines: still many questions and some answers 

  Godoy i García, Pere; Castilla, Jesús; Astray, Jenaro; Tuells, José; Barrabeig, Irene; Domínguez, Ángela (Sociedad Española de Salud Pública y Administración Sanitaria, 2020)

• Hospital-acquired influenza infections detected by a surveillance system over six seasons, from 2010/2011 to 2015/2016 

  Godoy i García, Pere; Torner Gràcia, Núria; Soldevila, Núria; Rius, C.; Jane, M.; Martínez, Ana; Caylà, Joan A.; Domínguez García, Àngela (BioMed Central, 2020)

  Background: In addition to outbreaks of nosocomial influenza, sporadic nosocomial influenza infections also occur but are generally not reported in the literature. This study aimed to determine the epidemiologic ...

• Cross-sectional study of the association between empathy and burnout and drug prescribing quality in primary care 

  Yuguero Torres, Oriol; Marsal Mora, Josep Ramon; Esquerda i Aresté, Montse; Galván, Leonardo; Soler González, Jorge (Cambridge University Press, 2020)

  Objective: The aim of this study was to assess whether burnout and empathy levels among general practitioners (GPs) might influence prescribing performance assessed using pharmaceutical prescription quality standard ...

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