- Heart Failure Treatment and Management
- Chronic Disease Management Strategies
- Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors
- Cardiac Health and Mental Health
- Health disparities and outcomes
- Glaucoma and retinal disorders
- Retinal Diseases and Treatments
- Potassium and Related Disorders
- Health Education and Validation
- Medication Adherence and Compliance
- Health Literacy and Information Accessibility
- Retinal Imaging and Analysis
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
2018-2025
Institut Universitari d'Investigació en Atenció Primària Jordi Gol
2017-2022
Consorci d’Atenció Primària de Salut Barcelona Esquerra
2020-2022
Primary HealthCare
2018
Institut Català de la Salut
2018
Biomedical Research Institute
2018
Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol
2018
To translate and adapt the Heart Failure-Specific Health Literacy Scale (HFS-HLS) for Castilian Spanish (i.e., spoken in Spain) to evaluate its psychometric properties patients with heart failure visited primary care centres. Forward back translations were used HFS-HLS, a panel of experts assessed validity adaptation until consensus was achieved. Face explored through cognitive debriefing 20 patients. Psychometric examined test-retest reliability (intraclass correlation index) internal...
Information about how patients with advanced heart failure (HF) live and cope their disease remains scarce. The objective of this study was to explore, from phenomenological holistic perspectives, the experiences suffering HF, attended at home in primary care setting 2018.Qualitative conducted 4 healthcare centers Barcelona (Spain). Twelve in-depth interviews were HF patients, aged over 65 visited regularly home. We developed a purposeful sampling, accounting for variability gender, age,...
It is common to find a high variability in the accuracy of heart failure (HF) diagnosis electronic primary care medical records (EMR). Our aims were ascertain (i) whether prognosis HF labelled patients whose ejection fraction (EF) was missing their EMR differed from those that had it registered, and (ii) causes contributing differences availability EF EMR.Retrospective cohort analyses based on clinical attended at 52 healthcare centres Barcelona (Spain). Information 8376 aged > 40 years...
Background Heart failure (HF) is a chronic condition that usually leads to death few years after diagnosis. Although several clinical factors have been found be related increased mortality, less known about the impact of social context, especially at end stage disease. Knowing context important properly classify risk and provide holistic management for patients with advanced HF. Objective The aim this study was determine on mortality in Methods A retrospective cohort conducted using data...