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Aim

The purpose of this study is to find out whether telephone referral from Primary Health Care to Internal Medicine Consult manages to reduce waiting days as compared to traditional referral. This study also aims to know how acceptable is the telephone referral to general practitioners and their patients.

Design

No blind randomized controlled clinical trial.

Setting

Northern Huelva Health District.

Participants

154 patients.

Interventions

Patients referrals from intervention clinicians were sent via telephone consultation, whereas patients referrals from control clinicians were sent by traditional via.

Measurements

Number of days from referral request to Internal Medicine Consult. Number of telephone and traditional referrals. Number of doctors and patients denied. Denial reasons.

Results

A statistically significant difference was found between groups, with an average of 27 (21-34) days. Among General Practitioners, 8 of the first 58 total doctors after randomization and, subsequently, 6 of the 20 doctors of the test group refused to engage in the trial because they considered “excessive time and effort consuming”. 50% of patients referred by the 14 General Practitioners finally randomized to the intervention group were denied referral by telephone due to patient's complexity.

Conclusions

Telephone referral significantly reduces waiting days for Internal Medicine consult. This type of referral did not mean an “excessive time and effort consuming” to General Practitioners and was not all that beneficial to complex patients  相似文献   

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Objective

To determine the perception of nurses, doctors, patients and family or relatives being present during cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) in adult patients.

Design

A qualitative exploratory study and thematic analysis were developed.

Site

Primary Care, Hospital Care and Emergency Service of the Basque Health Service.

Participants

The selection of the participants was made through intentional sampling. Four focus groups were developed: one of patients and family, 2 of nurses, and one of physicians.

Method

Thematic analysis was performed. Triangulation techniques were used between investigators and investigator-participant member. The Open code 4.1 statistics software was used.

Results

Three significant categories were identified: the impact on the family; the weight of ethical and legal responsibility; power, place of death, and cultural assumptions.

Conclusions

CPR is a social construct influenced by values which are situated in specific socio-cultural contexts. In this study, patients and family members describe the fear and resistance to being present during CPR. Health professionals consider that their decision is complex, and each case must be assessed independently, and patients and relatives must be integrated into decision-making. Future research should explore in greater depth the subjective experience of relatives who have witnessed CPR and the impact of contextual and sociocultural elements from the perspectives of relatives.  相似文献   

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Objective

To assess the efficacy of the ProMIC, multidisciplinary program for patients admitted at hospital because of heart failure (HF) programme, in reducing the HF-related readmission rate.

Desing

Quasi-experimental research with control group.

Settings

Twelve primary health care centres and 3 hospitals from the Basque Country.

Participants

Aged 40 years old or above patients admitted for HF with a New York Heart Association functional class II to IV.

Interventions

Patients in the intervention group carried out the ProMIC programme, a structured clinical intervention based on clinical guidelines and on the chronic care model. Control group received usual care.

Main measurements

The rate of readmission for HF and health-related quality of life

Results

One hundred fifty five patients were included in ProMIC group and 129 in control group. 45 rehospitalisation due to heart failure happened in ProMIC versus 75 in control group (adjusted hazard ratio = 0.59, CI 95%: 0.36-0.98; P = .049). There were significant differences in specific quality of life al 6 months. No significant differences were found in rehospitalisation due to all causes, due to cardiovascular causes, visits to emergency room, mortality, the combined variable of these events, the functional capacity or quality of life at 12 months of follow up.

Conclusions

ProMIC reduces significantly heart failure rehospitalisation and improve quality of life al 6 months of follow up. No significant differences were found in the rests of variables  相似文献   

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Objective

To identify the most efficient measurement pattern of home blood pressure monitoring (HBPM) for the follow-up of hypertensive patients in primary care.

Design

Validation study of a diagnostic test.

Setting

Primary care team in Murcia, Spain.

Population

One hundred and fifty three hypertensive patients younger than 80 years who met the inclusion criteria, who used HBPM and ambulatory blood pressure monitoring.

Main measurements

Performing HBPM for 24 hours. The HBPM protocol consisted of recording 2 measurements in the morning and 2 in the evening for 7 days. With the records obtained, the different HBPM patterns were established (7, 6, 5, 4, 3 days). The ROC curves were used for the analysis, together with the correlation coefficients and the Bland-Altman plots.

Results

The best areas under the curve for the systolic pressure of the different HBPM patterns corresponded to the 4-day pattern: 0.837 (0.77-0.90); and the 3 day one: 0.834 (0.77-0.90). As for diastolic pressure, the 7-day pattern had an area under the curve of 0.889 (0.84-0.94); followed by the 3 and 4 days patterns, which had the same statistical result both: 0.834 (0.83-0.94). There were no significant differences between correlation coefficients for systolic and diastolic blood pressures. The 3-day pattern showed a lower dispersion in the Bland-Altman plots.

Conclusion

The 3 days HBPM pattern is proposed for the follow-up of the hypertensive patient, since it does not have an inferior efficiency to the other patterns.  相似文献   

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Objective

To describe the functioning and regulations of health councils in La Rioja (Spain) as vehicles for citizen participation in health management.

Method

A qualitative analysis was conducted triangulating the national and regional institutional framework reviews of health councils, the official minutes of 58 meetings, and 11 semi-structured interviews with related persons.

Results

The analysis revealed a predominantly biomedical-technological standpoint, a lack of training in community participation dynamics, and an absence of structure in council operations. The councils were also found to be over-powered by public healthcare administration and restricted to a role of simply transmitting information, thereby neglecting an opportunity for proactive community involvement.

Conclusions

In spite of these shortcomings, community health councils can operate as efficient instruments in health management as long as the necessary political will and appropriate community awareness both exist.  相似文献   

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Objective

To explore the life experiences on sexual relationships in the third trimester of pregnancy in primiparous women.

Design

Phenomenological qualitative study,

Site

Cáceres (Extremadura).

Participants

Primiparous women in the third trimester of their pregnancy.

Methods

We use theoretical sampling, was conducted on pregnant primiparous. The study included 15 participants. The data was collected using in-depth interviews, that were voiced recorded and later transcribed. The analysis was made using Giorgi's proposal.

Results

The results show three main points. Fear of doing damage, mediated by the obstetric history and the desire to have the long-awaited child. Exploring new routes: forms of sexual expression are modified by the physical changes, the fears, and the mobility. Highlighting the importance of other displays of affection and love (kisses and caresses). The Sex Taboo: lack of information against sexuality during pregnancy is still common.

Conclusions

Women in the third trimester of their pregnancy put aside their sexual appetite and that of their partners, and concentrate in the wellbeing of their new born baby. It highlights the role of the mother before the couple. The more desired and difficult the pregnancy has been, the more the sexual life is reduced. The Health Professionals must advise and inform the couples with an open-minded attitude.  相似文献   

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Objective

To compare the performance in terms of goodness of fit and explanatory power of 2 morbidity groupers in primary care (PC): adjusted morbidity groups (AMG) and clinical risk groups (CRG).

Design

Cross-sectional study.

Location

PC in the Catalan Institute for the Health (CIH), Catalonia, Spain.

Participants

Population allocated in primary care centers of the CIH for the year 2014.

Main measurements

Three indicators of interest are analyzed such as urgent hospitalization, number of visits and spending in pharmacy. A stratified analysis by centers is applied adjusting generalized lineal models from the variables age, sex and morbidity grouping to explain each one of the 3 variables of interest. The statistical measures to analyze the performance of the different models applied are the Akaike index, the Bayes index and the pseudo-variability explained by deviance change.

Results

The results show that in the area of the primary care the explanatory power of the AMGs is higher to that offered by the CRGs, especially for the case of the visits and the pharmacy.

Conclusions

The performance of GMAs in the area of the CIH PC is higher than that shown by the CRGs.  相似文献   

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Objective

To estimate the effect of the influenza vaccination in Primary Healthcare workers and the general population vaccinated during the 2015/2016 campaign.

Design

Cross-sectional study.

Setting

All the Primary Healthcare centres within the Gran Canaria healthcare region.

Participants

A total of 1,868 Primary Healthcare workers (33.5% men; 66.5% women) and 795,605 individuals from the general population (49.4% men; 50.6% women).

Principal measurements

The outcome variables in Primary Healthcare workers were: influenza cases reported to the Epidemiological Surveillance System, and the sick leave days due to illness. In the general population: reported flu cases and vaccination coverage in connection with the vaccination status of the healthcare professional. The magnitude of association between vaccination and morbidity was estimated applying logistic regression models.

Results

Although not statistically significant, healthcare professionals that were not vaccinated had 1.7-fold increase in the risk of having influenza than those vaccinated. In the general population the association was significant in the female population (OR: 1.3; 95% CI: 1.1-1.5). Population coverage was significantly higher when both the doctor and nurse were vaccinated (OR: 1.3; 95% CI: 1.3-1.3), and reported flu cases decreased when the nurse was vaccinated (OR: 0.9; 95% CI: 0.9-0.9).

Conclusion

A possible protective effect of influenza vaccination was observed in the general population, as well as an influence of Primary Healthcare workers on the patients regarding this. Even so, the low coverages registered point to a need to implement measures that may lead to a more favourable attitude towards influenza vaccination.  相似文献   

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Objective

Until 2016, around 3 million persons had limited access to health care in Greece due to the economic crisis. We describe a massive solidarity movement of community clinics and pharmacies in Greece.

Method

We conducted a survey in 2014-15 and describe the characteristics of community clinics and pharmacies spontaneously established all over Greece after 2008.

Results

A characteristic of the 92 active solidarity clinics is autonomous collective functioning, free services, and funding from non-governmental sources. The largest clinics examined more than 500 uninsured or partly insured patients per month. Clinics covered a wide range of clinical and preventive services. Funding, availability of drugs, vaccines, medical material and their legal status were the main problems identified. The solidarity movement involved thousands of health professionals covering essential population needs.

Conclusions

The community outpatient clinics were an outstanding example of solidarity and temporarily alleviated the health needs of a large part of the population.  相似文献   

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Objective

A rapid and worrying emergence of vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) gut colonization is occurring worldwide and may be responsible for outbreaks, especially in healthcare facilities. While no efficient decolonization strategies are recommended, we assessed fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) to eradicate VRE colonization.

Patients and method

Our main objective was to measure the impact of FMT on decolonization of VRE carriers, confirmed by at least two consecutive negative rectal swabs at one-week interval during a 3-month follow-up period. Patients received no antibiotic prior to the FMT.

Results

After a month only three patients remained colonized with VRE. Decolonization was associated with 87.5% (n = 7) of success after three months as only one patient remained colonized.

Conclusion

Our first results confirm that the FMT seems to be safe, with an impact on VRE colonization over time that may help control outbreaks.  相似文献   

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Introduction

Tick bites, which may lead to Lyme disease, often prompt patients to consult their primary care physicians (PCPs). The aim of the present study was to assess how and how often PCPs in the Franche-Comté region of France manage tick bites.

Material and methods

Standardized questionnaires were sent to a random sample of 400 PCPs in the Franche-Comté region, requesting their voluntary and anonymous participation. The questionnaires collected socio-demographic details and practice-related information about tick-bite prophylaxis, Lyme serology, and tick-borne encephalitis vaccination.

Results

The crude response rate was 54.5% of the PCPs contacted. Tick-bite prophylaxis was prescribed as per current guidelines. However, Lyme serology seemed to be largely overprescribed for tick bites and in case of erythema migrans. A clear lack of knowledge about tick-borne encephalitis vaccination was also observed.

Discussion

PCPs provide the first line of care for patients presenting with tick bites. This study showed that although PCPs of the Franche-Comté region manage tick bites as per current guidelines, they need further training on Lyme serology limitations and availability of tick-borne encephalitis vaccination.  相似文献   

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Objective

To know the variables present in primary and secondary school students who do not smoke or intend to smoke from a positive health model.

Methods

Cross-sectional study with 482 students from Andalusia and Catalonia using a validated questionnaire (ESFA and PASE project). Binary logistic regression analysis was performed.

Results

Those who did not intend to smoke viewed smoking unfavourably and had high self-efficacy (p <0.001). In non-consumers, the most associated variables were attitude, social model (p <0.001), and self-efficacy (p =0.005).

Conclusions

The results show motivational factors present in students who do not smoke and do not intend to do so. Attitude and self-efficacy are strongly associated with intention and behaviour. This information might be useful for developing positive health promotion strategies from a salutogenesis approach.  相似文献   

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Objective

To examine the variability of hospital performance within and across countries, using 30-day acute myocardial infarction (AMI) mortality, and to study the impact of hospital characteristics on performance.

Study setting

Hospital-level adjusted risk standardized mortality rates (RSMR) and hospital characteristics were collected from 10 OECD and two collaborating countries including 1,163 hospitals.

Study design

Associations between RSMR and hospital characteristics were studied using univariate and multivariate linear regressions. Clusters of hospitals were created using hierarchical clustering and mortality compared using linear regression.

Findings

Wide variation between countries was found for RSMR and hospital characteristics. Regression models showed large country effects. A high volume of AMI admission was associated with lower RSMR in a model using a restricted number of hospital characteristics (?0.83, p?<?0.001) but not in a model using all characteristics (?1.03, p?=?0.06). Analysis within countries supported this association. Hospital clusters showed clear differences in characteristic distributions but no difference in RSMR.

Conclusions

The effect of volume may support policies toward a concentration of services within the hospital sector. The effect of other hospital characteristics was inconclusive and suggests the importance of system-wide characteristics or pathways of care (i.e. timeliness and nature of initial response and during transportation to a hospital, transfers between hospitals, post-discharge organization) in explaining variation.  相似文献   

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Objective

To assess the effectiveness, on people with chronic pain, of an intervention (Time In) designed to reduce pain and to improve psychological symptoms.

Design

A randomized clinical trial with a control group, taking three measurements over three months.

Setting

Granada, Spain.

Participants

A sample of 40 women aged 18 or older with a history (over 6 months) of chronic pain. The recruitment was in the Fibromyalgia Association of Granada, Spain (AGRAFIM).

Interventions

Time In is a sensorimotor intervention that combines biomechanical physiotherapeutic procedures and psychological strategies. A weekly session of 3 h was planned and the total of the program was developed during five weeks.

Main measurements

Independent variables: sociodemographic information, clinical history and Time In intervention. Dependent variables: Brief Pain Inventory (BPI-S), Short-Form Health Survey (SF-12), Symptom Check List-90-R (SCL-90-R) and Clinical Outcome in Routine Evaluation (CORE-OM).

Results

Significant differences were observed between control group and intervention group of most of the scales used in postintervention and follow up measurements. Thus, significantly lower mean scores were obtained in intensity, interference and areas of pain, quality of life, psychological symptoms and behavioural change. Similar results were observed on d Cohen scores. They were ‘very important’ on intensity of pain (d = –1.01, d = –0.97) and interference of pain (d = –0.85, d = –0.74), with an improvement percentage from 21% to 30%.

Conclusions

Time In intervention reduces pain and improves psychological symptoms in patients with fibromyalgia; this results in a better quality of life.  相似文献   

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