[The accuracy of the causes of death with judicial intervention in Catalonia in the period 2015-2020. Effect of declaration through IML-Web application].

Objective: On January first, 2020, the Institutes of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences (IMLCF) began to inform the causes of death directly to the National Statistics Institute (INE) through a web application (IML-Web). The objective of this study was to evaluate the impact of the implementation of this application on the quality of the data collected.

Methods: A descriptive study using deaths data with judicial intervention that occurred in Catalonia was carried out.

Rationale and Design of the "Safety and Efficacy of the Combination of Loop with Thiazide-type Diuretics in Patients with Decompensated Heart Failure (CLOROTIC) Trial:" A Double-Blind, Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Study to Determine the Effect of Combined Diuretic Therapy (Loop Diuretics With Thiazide-Type Diuretics) Among Patients With Decompensated Heart Failure.

Background: Fluid overload refractory to loop diuretic therapy can complicate acute or chronic heart failure (HF) management. The Safety and Efficacy of the Combination of Loop with Thiazide-type Diuretics in Patients with Decompensated Heart Failure (CLOROTIC) trial (Clinicaltrials.gov identifier NCT01647932) will test the hypothesis that blocking distal tubule sodium reabsorption with hydrochlorothiazide can antagonize the renal adaptation to chronic loop diuretic therapy and improve diuretic resistance.

[Trends in ambulatory surgical procedures in Catalonia (Spain), 2001-2011].

Objective: To analyse the trend in ambulatory surgery procedures in Catalonia (Spain) hospitals with regard to the activity in inpatient care units and structural resources in surgery.

Methods: A descriptive study was performed using data from the Statistics of Health Facilities with Inpatient Care of the Health Department of the Catalan Government from 2001 to 2011. Data from acute care hospitals were analysed and were classified in public and private hospitals.

[Prevalence of the disability in Spain for autonomous communities: the paper of the individual factors and the geographical environment in the variability].

Background: The prevalence of disability shows a high geographical variability and the identification of factors that could explain these variations can be useful to the heath and social welfare planning. Here the analysis of disability variations among autonomous regions in Spain is made taking into account individual and geographical setting factors together.

Methods: Data come from the Spanish Disability, Impairment and Health Status survey of 1999 and from Inebase both of the National Institute for Statistics.

Ten-year experience with acenocoumarol treatment in an ambulatory cohort of Spanish patients.

Objective: To analyse incidence of hemorrhagic and thrombotic events in a series of ambulatory patients receiving acenocoumarol in a rural area of Spain (1997-2007).

Results: Out of 1,544 patients, 1,086 are receiving acenocoumarol at present (2% of our region's population). The total follow-up was 5,462 patients-years.

[Dependence profile in Spain: an analysis from the disability survey of 1999].

Background: In the next future an important demographical ageing will imply a rise in the levels of co morbidity, disability and dependence of the population. The objective if this work was to estimate the dependences profile by means of assessing the levels of severity of the disability in the Spanish general population.

Methods: Data come from the disease, disability and health status survey of 1999 of the Spanish Institute for Statistics, which includes 36 limitations with an score of severity (from 0= absence to 4= unable).

[Differences in reproductive patterns between autochthonous and immigrant women living in Catalonia, Spain].

Objective: To describe differences in reproductive patterns between autochthonous and immigrant women living in Catalonia (Spain).

Methods: Data on legal abortions were obtained from the abortions register in the Regional Ministry of Health, while data on births and the population were drawn from the Institute of Statistics of Catalonia. Depending on the source, the variables <> or <> were used to compose the groups.

[Perinatal mortality according to 2 information sources].

Objective: To evaluate differences in the number of cases of perinatal mortality in Catalonia (Spain) recorded in 2 health information systems, as well as trends in this phenomenon.

Methods: Data were obtained from the mortality statistics (Health Department and the Catalan Institute of Statistics) and the minimum data set (MDS) for hospital discharges of the Catalan Health Service from 2000-2003. The frequencies are given for the cases reported and for cases following the legal criteria for reporting.

[Health system interventions assessment in Spain: an approach through the analysis of the time trends and the geographical variability of avoidable mortality between 1986 -2001].

Background: Many studies have proposed Avoidable Mortality (ME) to monitor the performance of health services although its usefulness is limited by the multiplicity of the avoidable mortality lists being used. Time trends from 1986-2001 and the geographical distribution of avoidable mortality by provinces, are presented for Spain.

Methods: An Avoidable Mortality consensus list is being used.