Publications by authors named "Clara Goni"
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- The study assessed outcomes, resource use, and costs related to Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) by analyzing a cohort of patients who visited the emergency department in 2018.
- In a sample of 2,384 COPD patients, the study found high mortality rates—23.4% within one year—and significant readmission rates, with costs totaling approximately €14.6 million.
- The findings highlight the need for specialized programs to improve care for COPD patients due to their high mortality, readmission rates, and substantial economic burden on the healthcare system.
Aims: Women may have different management patterns than men in specialised care. Our aim was to assess potential sex differences in referral, management and outcomes of patients attending outpatient cardiac consultations.
Methods And Results: Retrospective observational analysis of patients ≥18 years referred for the first time from primary care to a tertiary hospital cardiology clinic in 2017-2018, comparing reasons for referral, decisions and post-visit outcomes by sex.
Pseudo interpenetrating vinyl-caprolactam (VCL) based thermosensitive tubular hydrogels with a volume phase transition temperature, VPTT, around 35 °C, have been prepared by combining two different crosslinkers, a di-methacrylate (C1) and a di-vinyl urea (C2). The molar ratio between the two crosslinkers (for a global crosslinker molar percentage of 1.9) has shown to play a key role on the properties of the hydrogel.
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- There is limited information on secondary heart failure (sHF), so the study aimed to compare its characteristics and outcomes with primary heart failure (pHF).
- The research analyzed hospital and emergency department data from patients in 2018, focusing on various metrics like mortality rates, readmission rates, and healthcare costs.
- Findings revealed that while sHF patients discharged home had lower hospitalization and costs, hospitalized sHF patients experienced worse outcomes, higher comorbidity, and greater healthcare expenses compared to pHF patients.
Introduction And Objectives: Composite endpoints are widely used but have several limitations. The Clinical outcomes, healthcare resource utilization and related costs (COHERENT) model is a new approach for visually displaying and comparing composite endpoints including all their components (incidence, timing, duration) and related costs. We aimed to assess the validity of the COHERENT model in a patient cohort.
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