[Conceptual framework and historical perspective of intermediate care].

The aging of the population is raising the need to make structural changes in the National Health System. First, the need to increase geriatric services in all hospitals. Second, implement and integrate intermediate care (IC), and Third and last, guarantee medical care in long-term care.

[Results Centre of Social and Health Care Network in Catalonia. Evolution 2013-2018].

Objective: The Results Centre's (RC) mission is to measure, evaluate and disseminate the results achieved by the different agents of the health system, based on relevant measures. The purpose of this research is to describe the evolution of indicators used in the social and health care network RC (RC-SH), including some indicators sensitive to nursing practice.

Method: Observational, descriptive cross-sectional study based on data from 6 RC-SH reports (2013-2018).

Advance directives and real-world end-of-life clinical practice: a case-control study.

Background: Advance directives (ADs) have been legally regulated to promote autonomy over health decisions among patients who later lose decision-making capacity.

Aims And Objectives: To analyse the differences in clinical practice at end of life among people who had completed an AD versus those who had not.

Methods: Retrospective case-control study (1:2), matched by age, sex, year, cause of death and region of residence.

Association of orthogeriatric services with long-term mortality in patients with hip fracture.

Purpose: To assess the impact of the comprehensive orthogeriatric care model (OGM) on 2-year survival, length of stay (LOS), discharges to nursing homes, and antiosteoporotic treatment (AOT) in patients with hip fracture.

Methods: Retrospective cohort study. Hospitals were classified as OGM if the patient was cared for in a comprehensive orthogeriatric unit.

[Social and health resources in Catalonia. Current situation].

The network of social and health care has advanced since its inception. Furthermore, news services have been created and some resources have been adapted within the framework of respective health plans. This article presents the current situation of the different social and health resources in Catalonia, as well as the main changes that have occurred in recent years, more specifically in the period of the Health Plan 2011-2015.

[Evaluation of the nurse working environment in health and social care intermediate care units in Catalonia].

Introduction: A favourable work environment contributes to greater job satisfaction and improved working conditions for nurses, a fact that could influence the quality of patient outcomes. The aim of the study is two-fold: Identifying types of centres, according to the working environment assessment made by nurses in intermediate care units, and describing the individual characteristics of nurses related to this assessment.

Methods: An observational, descriptive, prospective, cross-sectional, and multicentre study was conducted in the last quarter of 2014.