[Factors that influence compliance with hand hygiene in healthcare professionals: A concept mapping study].

Objective: To identify factors that may influence hand hygiene compliance by professional category and clinical department.

Materials And Methods: Use was made of concept mapping methodology, a tool that combines a qualitative analysis with a quantitative statistical analysis, in order to identify the most influential and important factors for the fulfilment of hand hygiene in 2 clinical departments (Infectious and General Surgery) of the Hospital del Mar.

Results: The study included a total of 42 volunteer professionals from General Surgery (6 doctors and 10 nurses) and from Infectious Diseases (11 doctors and 10 nurses) clinical departments, as well as 5 hospital porters.

Detection of incident breast and colorectal cancer cases from an administrative healthcare database in Catalonia, Spain.

Objective: To validate the Catalan minimum basic data set (MBDS) of hospital discharges as an information source for detecting incident breast (BC) and colorectal cancer (CRC), against the Hospital del Mar Cancer Registry (RTHMar) in Barcelona (Spain) as the gold standard.

Methods: Using ASEDAT software (Analysis, Selection and Extraction of Tumour Data), we identified Catalan public hospital discharge abstracts in patients with a first-time diagnosis of BC and CRC in the years 2005, 2008, and 2011, aggregated by unique patient identifiers and sorted by date. Once merged with the RTHMar database and anonymized, tumour-specific algorithms were validated to extract data on incident cases, tumour stage, surgical treatment, and date of incidence.

Impact of comorbidity on survival by tumour location: Breast, colorectal and lung cancer (2000-2014).

Background: To assess the impact of comorbidity, measured by the Charlson Comorbidity Index (CCI), on survival in breast, colorectal and lung cancer.

Methods: We identified 3455 breast cancer, 3336 colorectal cancer and 2654 lung cancer patients through the Hospital del Mar cancer registry. The prevalence of comorbidities according to the CCI was calculated.

Linking of primary care records to census data to study the association between socioeconomic status and cancer incidence in Southern Europe: a nation-wide ecological study.

Background: Area-based measures of economic deprivation are seldom applied to large medical records databases to establish population-scale associations between deprivation and disease.

Objective: To study the association between deprivation and incidence of common cancer types in a Southern European region.

Methods: Retrospective ecological study using the SIDIAP (Information System for the Development of Research in Primary Care) database of longitudinal electronic medical records for a representative population of Catalonia (Spain) and the MEDEA index based on urban socioeconomic indicators in the Spanish census.

[Epidemiology of the hospital adverse events in Catalonia, Spain: a first step for the patient safety improvement].

It has been published that hospital adverse events are an important source of morbidity and mortality in different countries and settings. The aim of this study was to evaluate the frequency, magnitude, distribution and degree of preventability of adverse events in the Autonomous Community of Catalonia (Spain). We conducted a retrospective cohort study of 4,790 hospital discharges that were selected by simple random sampling after stratified multistage sampling in 15 hospitals in Catalonia.

Neonatal tuberculosis and cardiac inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor.

A 1-month-old neonate was admitted in respiratory distress. Two-dimensional echocardiography and computed tomography scan showed a mass anterior to the left ventricle and right ventricular outflow tract. A biopsy revealed an inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor.

A multicentre randomized trial of combined individual and telephone counselling for smoking cessation.

Objective: The present study assessed the effectiveness of smoking cessation programs combining individual and telephone counselling, compared to individual or telephone counselling alone.

Method: A randomized, multicentre, open-label trial was performed between January 2009 and July 2011 at six smoking cessation clinics in Spain. Of 772 smokers assessed for eligibility, 600 (77%) met inclusion criteria and were randomized.

Survival of patients with non-small cell lung cancer according to lymph node disease: single pN1 vs multiple pN1 vs single unsuspected pN2.

Purpose: This study was designed to describe the characteristics and survival of NSCLC patients treated with surgery and single pN1 disease, multiple pN1, and single unsuspected pN2.

Methods: In 2005-2009, we treated 378 lung cancer patients with surgery with radical intent; 152 cases were pN1 or pN2. We excluded patients with neoadjuvant treatment, incomplete resection, incomplete lymph node dissection, metastasis, cN2 disease, multiple pN2, SCLC, and lack of PET-CT.

Food groups and nutrient intake and risk of colorectal cancer: a hospital-based case-control study in Spain.

Although evidence supports that colorectal cancer (CRC) has an environmental etiology, the potential influence of diet appears to be one of the most important components. We studied the relation between food groups and nutrient intake and the risk of CRC. A hospital-based case-control study was conducted in Spain between 2007 and 2009.

Supplementation with docosahexaenoic acid in the last trimester of pregnancy: maternal-fetal biochemical findings.

The nutritional significance of long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids (LCPS) during the perinatal period is becoming increasingly important. There are currently very few studies on dietary intervention during gestation. The aim of the study was to analyze the effect of docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) supplementation during pregnancy on levels in both the newborn and the mother.