- Global Cancer Incidence and Screening
- Economic and Financial Impacts of Cancer
- COVID-19 and healthcare impacts
- Esophageal and GI Pathology
- Nutrition, Genetics, and Disease
- Indoor Air Quality and Microbial Exposure
- Clinical practice guidelines implementation
- Dysphagia Assessment and Management
- Primary Care and Health Outcomes
- Water Treatment and Disinfection
- Tracheal and airway disorders
- Legionella and Acanthamoeba research
- Chronic Disease Management Strategies
Hospital Del Mar
2022-2025
Agència de Salut Pública de Catalunya
2022-2025
Parc de Salut
2022
Hospital del Mar Research Institute
2022
Agencia de Salud Pública de Barcelona
2022
Municipal Institute for Medical Research
2022
Universitat Pompeu Fabra
2022
Following a legionnaire's disease outbreak in Barcelona 2022, sport fields' sprinklers were identified as potential sources of Legionella infection. The Agency Public Health inspected all 40 urban municipal sports fields the city. was found 55% them, including pneumophila serotype 1 11 samples. There no statistically significant differences for detection according to installation characteristics.These findings prompted implementation set preventive measures risk mitigation and specific...
Background: To assess the effect of COVID-19 pandemic on performance indicators in population-based breast cancer screening program Parc de Salut Mar (PSMAR), Barcelona, Spain. Methods: We conducted a before-and-after, study to evaluate participation, recall, false positives, detection rate, and characteristics our population from March 2020 2021 compared with four previous rounds (2012–2019). Using multilevel logistic regression models, we estimated adjusted odds ratios (aORs) each for...
Oropharyngeal dysphagia can be highly concerning in hospitalized patients, increasing morbidity and mortality, making its early identification essential. We aimed to characterize association with aspiration pneumonia mortality a tertiary hospital Barcelona, Spain.Using data from all discharges during the period 2018-2021, we identified characteristics of patients their distribution among departments through minimum set, which codifies patients' diagnoses according International...
Abstract Background To assess the effect of COVID-19 pandemic on performance indicators in population-based breast cancer screening program Parc de Salut Mar (PSMAR), Barcelona, Spain. Methods We conducted a before-and-after, quasi-experimental study to evaluate participation, recall, false-positives, detection rate, and characteristics our population from March 2020 2021 compared with four previous rounds (2012-2019). Using independent logistic regression models, we estimated adjusted odds...