Improvement in Quality of Life With the Use of a Technological System Among Patients With Chronic Disease Followed Up in Primary Care (TeNDER Project): Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial.

Background: Among chronic diseases, cognitive, neurological, and cardiovascular impairments are becoming increasingly prevalent, generating a shift in health and social needs. Technology can create an ecosystem of care integrated with microtools based on biosensors for motion, location, voice, and expression detection that can help people with chronic diseases. A technological system capable of identifying symptoms, signs, or behavioral patterns could provide notification of the development of complications of disease.

[Making balances between the risks and benefits of pharmacological treatment in dementia, chronic pain and anticoagulation in elderly persons].

In dementia, specific drugs and psychotropic drugs used for psychotic and behavioral symptoms have limited efficacy. Adverse effects may be important given the age and comorbidity of the patients. It is necessary, frequently, its withdrawal, planned together with the family, monitoring the response and offering non-pharmacological treatment alternatives.

[Internet as an information source for health in primary care patients and its influence on the physician-patient relationship].

Objective: To describe the use of the Internet by primary care patients to seek health related information, understand how they are influenced by this information, and evaluate its impact on the doctor-patient relationship.

Design: Cross sectional study, through self-administered survey.

Setting: One urban health center in Madrid.

[Prevalence of frailty in an elderly Spanish urban population. Relationship with comorbidity and disability].

Aim: To estimate prevalence of frailty, by Fried criteria, in a Spanish urban old population, and to analyse relationship with comorbidity and disability.

Population: Aged ≥ 65 living in Peñagrande area (Fuencarral district in Madrid, Spain).

Design: Cross-sectional study.