Arturo Louro González

ORCID: 0000-0002-8334-9210
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Research Areas
  • Healthcare Systems and Technology
  • Clinical practice guidelines implementation
  • Medical research and treatments
  • Health Sciences Research and Education
  • Health and Lifestyle Studies
  • Meta-analysis and systematic reviews
  • Primary Care and Health Outcomes
  • Health and Medical Education
  • Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
  • Organizational Management and Innovation
  • Antifungal resistance and susceptibility
  • Nail Diseases and Treatments
  • Emergency and Acute Care Studies
  • Digital Mental Health Interventions
  • Healthcare Policy and Management
  • Health Policy Implementation Science
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare
  • Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies
  • Bipolar Disorder and Treatment
  • Nursing Diagnosis and Documentation
  • Smoking Behavior and Cessation
  • Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Research
  • Infectious Diseases and Mycology
  • Thyroid and Parathyroid Surgery

Servicio Gallego de Salud
2011-2020

Universidade da Coruña
2013-2015

Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Epidemiología y Salud Pública
2014

Iberoamerican Cochrane Centre
2014

Hospital Xeral Calde
2007

<h3>Background:</h3> Clinical guidelines should be updated to maintain their validity. Our aim was estimate the length of time before recommendations become outdated. <h3>Methods:</h3> We used a retrospective cohort design and included from clinical developed in Spanish National Health System guideline program since 2008. performed descriptive analysis references, resources used, survival using Kaplan–Meier method. <h3>Results:</h3> 113 4 with median years most recent search (range 3.9–4.4...

10.1503/cmaj.140547 article EN cc-by-nc-nd Canadian Medical Association Journal 2014-09-08

Background Clinical guidelines (CGs) are popular for healthcare decision making but their acceptability and use by providers is influenced numerous factors. Some of these factors professional-related, such as knowledge perceptions attitudes toward CGs in general. The aim our study was to evaluate Spanish physicians towards CGs. Methods We coordinated six discussion groups with a total 46 physicians. participants were drawn from 12 medical specialties both specialized primary care. recorded...

10.1371/journal.pone.0086065 article EN cc-by PLoS ONE 2014-02-05

A major challenge in updating clinical guidelines is to efficiently identify new, relevant evidence. We evaluated the efficiency and feasibility of two new approaches: development restrictive search strategies using PubMed Clinical Queries for MEDLINE use PLUS (McMaster Premium Literature Service) database.We a random sample recommendations from national guideline program identified references that would potentially trigger an update (key references) exhaustive approach. designed minimum...

10.1186/s12874-015-0058-2 article EN cc-by BMC Medical Research Methodology 2015-07-30

The philosophy of evidence-based medicine (EBM) was introduced in the early 90s as a new approach to practice medicine, using best available evidence make decisions about health care. Despite ongoing controversy, EBM has developed enormously and physicians' attitude towards it is generally positive. Nevertheless, Spain little known this topic. We will therefore undertake study explore perceptions, attitudes knowledge among primary care physicians. A mixed-method combining qualitative...

10.1186/1472-6963-9-80 article EN cc-by BMC Health Services Research 2009-05-15

This study aims to assess the use of clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) among health professionals and factors related their uptake in practice.Cross-sectional based on an online survey conducted primary care (PC) hospital-based (HC) doctors Spain 2011. Questionnaire development included adaptation similar surveys contextualization through a qualitative study. After pilot review, final contained five domains: demographics, involvement CPGs, consultation perceptions attitudes regarding CPGs...

10.1111/jep.12109 article EN Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice 2013-12-26

Evidence based medicine (EBM) has made a substantial impact on primary care in Spain over the last few years. However, little research been done into family physicians (FPs)' attitudes related to EBM. The present study investigates FPs' perceptions of EBM context. This used qualitative methodology. Information was obtained from 8 focus groups composed 67 FPs 47 health centers 4 autonomous regions Spain. Intentional sampling considered participants' previous education EBM, and their...

10.1186/1471-2296-12-84 article EN cc-by BMC Family Practice 2011-08-09

Clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) become quickly outdated and require a periodic reassessment of evidence research to maintain their validity. However, there is little about this topic. Our project will provide for some the most pressing questions in field: 1) what average time recommendations out date?; 2) comparative performance two restricted search strategies evaluate need update recommendations?; 3) feasibility more regular monitoring updating strategy compared usual practice?. In...

10.1186/1748-5908-8-94 article EN cc-by Implementation Science 2013-08-22
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