Heart failure admission across glomerular filtration rate categories in a community cohort of 125,053 individuals over 60 years of age.

A reduced estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) has been described as a predictor of heart failure (HF). However, the increased risk across eGFR categories has not been fully evaluated, which is especially relevant in older individuals in whom both the prevalence of HF and decreased eGFR are higher. Furthermore, this association has not been studied in Mediterranean populations, where coronary heart disease (CHD), a frequent cause of HF, has a low prevalence.

[Compliance with recommendations in secondary prevention of stroke in primary care].

Objective: Knowing compliance with secondary prevention recommendations of stroke in primary care and to identify factors associated with compliance.

Design: Multi-centre cross-sectional.

Setting: Health primary care centres in a metropolitan area (944,280 inhabitants).

[Self-audit and tutor accreditation].

Objective: To describe the experience of using self-audit (SA) as a means of accrediting family and community medicine tutors, to analyse the knowledge that the tutors have on this self-assessment methodology, and to record their opinions on this method.

Design: Retrospective descriptive study and analysis of an opinion questionnaire.

Setting: Family and community medicine teaching units (TU) in Catalonia.