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Citation: Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2016 58:13
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Proceedings of the 4th IPLeiria’s International Health Congress
Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2018 18(Suppl 2):684 -
Health services research in patients with breast cancer (CAMISS-prospective): study protocol for an observational prospective study
Though breast cancer remains a major health problem, there is a lack of information on health care provided to patients with this disease and associated costs. In addition, there is a need to update and valida...
Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:54 -
Autoantigenic nuclear proteins of a clinically atypical renal vasculitis
Systemic vasculitides constitute a heterogeneous group of diseases of autoimmunological origin characterized by inflammation of blood vessels and antibodies that react against autoantigens in a process that ul...
Citation: Journal of Autoimmune Diseases 2008 5:3 -
Target organ damage and cardiovascular complications in patients with hypertension and type 2 diabetes in Spain: a cross-sectional study
Target organ damage (mainly cardiac and renal damage) is easy to evaluate in outpatient clinics and offers valuable information about patient's cardiovascular risk. The purpose of this study was to evaluate, u...
Citation: Cardiovascular Diabetology 2006 5:23 -
Professionals’ perceptions about healthcare resources for co-occuring disorders in Spain
Since provision of integrated services for patients with dual pathology or dual disorders (coexistence of an addictive disorder and other psychiatric disorders) constitutes an important challenge, this study c...
Citation: International Journal of Mental Health Systems 2014 8:35 -
Validation of the geographic position of EPER-Spain industries
The European Pollutant Emission Register in Spain (EPER-Spain) is a public inventory of pollutant industries created by decision of the European Union. The location of these industries is geocoded and the firs...
Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2008 7:1 -
Lung cancer risk and pollution in an industrial region of Northern Spain: a hospital-based case-control study
Asturias, an Autonomous Region in Northern Spain with a large industrial area, registers high lung cancer incidence and mortality. While this excess risk of lung cancer might be partially attributable to smoki...
Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2011 10:10 -
Predictive Power of the "Trigger Tool" for the detection of adverse events in general surgery: a multicenter observational validation study
In spite of the global implementation of standardized surgical safety checklists and evidence-based practices, general surgery remains associated with a high residual risk of preventable perioperative complica...
Citation: Patient Safety in Surgery 2022 16:7 -
Should we adjust erythropoiesis-stimulating agent dosage to postdialysis hemoglobin levels? A pilot study
Predialysis hemoglobin (Hb) may overestimate the true erithropoiesis-stimulating agents (ESA) requeriments. We tested whether predialysis Hb is a reliable predictor of the postdialysis level to better control ...
Citation: BMC Nephrology 2012 13:60 -
Development of Aspergillosis in a cohort of non-neutropenic, non-transplant patients colonised by Aspergillus spp
A previous study explored factors discriminating colonization and true infection among non-transplant, non-neutropenic patients with repeated Aspergillus spp. isolation from lower respiratory samples. The present...
Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:34 -
At the tip of an iceberg: citizen science and active surveillance collaborating to broaden the known distribution of Aedes japonicus in Spain
Active surveillance aimed at the early detection of invasive mosquito species is usually focused on seaports and airports as points of entry, and along road networks as dispersion paths. In a number of cases, ...
Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2021 14:375 -
Description of industrial pollution in Spain
Toxic substances released into the environment (to both air and water) by many types of industries might be related with the occurrence of some malignant tumours and other diseases. The publication of the EPER...
Citation: BMC Public Health 2007 7:40 -
Predictors of one-year mortality after hospitalization for an exacerbation of COPD
Hospitalization for a severe exacerbation of COPD (eCOPD) is an important event in the natural history of COPD. Identifying factors related to mortality 1 year after hospitalization could help determine interv...
Citation: BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2018 18:18 -
Oesophageal cancer mortality in Spain: a spatial analysis
Oesophageal carcinoma is one of the most common cancers worldwide. Its incidence and mortality rates show a wide geographical variation at a world and regional level. Geographic mapping of age-standardized, ca...
Citation: BMC Cancer 2007 7:3 -
The striking geographical pattern of gastric cancer mortality in Spain: environmental hypotheses revisited
Gastric cancer is decreasing in most countries. While socioeconomic development is the main factor to which this decline has been attributed, enormous differences among countries and within regions are still o...
Citation: BMC Cancer 2009 9:316 -
Municipal distribution of breast cancer mortality among women in Spain
Spain has one of the lowest rates of breast cancer in Europe, though estimated incidence has risen substantially in recent decades. Some years ago, the Spanish Cancer Mortality Atlas showed Spain as having a h...
Citation: BMC Cancer 2007 7:78 -
Kidney cancer mortality in Spain: geographic patterns and possible hypotheses
Since the second half of the 1990s, kidney cancer mortality has tended to stabilize and decline in many European countries, due to the decrease in the prevalence of smokers. Nevertheless, incidence of kidney c...
Citation: BMC Cancer 2008 8:293 -
Time trends in municipal distribution patterns of cancer mortality in Spain
New disease mapping techniques widely used in small-area studies enable disease distribution patterns to be identified and have become extremely popular in the field of public health. This paper reports on tre...
Citation: BMC Cancer 2014 14:535 -
Trends in oral cavity, pharyngeal, oesophageal and gastric cancer mortality rates in Spain, 1952–2006: an age-period-cohort analysis
Although oral cavity, pharyngeal, oesophageal and gastric cancers share some risk factors, no comparative analysis of mortality rate trends in these illnesses has been undertaken in Spain. This study aimed to ...
Citation: BMC Cancer 2014 14:254