Publications by authors named "Cristina Nebot"
Objective: To determine the non-adherence to the primary care 'do not do' recommendations (DNDs) and their likelihood to cause harm.
Design: Delphi study.
Setting: Spanish National Health System.
Objectives: Identify the sources of overuse from the point of view of the Spanish primary care professionals, and analyse the frequency of overuse due to pressure from patients in addition to the responses when professionals face these demands.
Design: A cross-sectional study.
Setting: Primary care in Spain.
Objective: To describe the profile of persons who exercise their right to draw up a living will, to analyze physicians' knowledge of living wills and attitudes toward them, and to compare the regulations pertaining to this right in the distinct autonomous regions of Spain.
Method: A descriptive study that included an analysis of a systematic sample of 931 living wills registered in the autonomous region of Valencia (Spain), a self-administered structured questionnaire administered to a sample of 84 physicians working in emergency departments and intensive care units (45% response rate), and a comparison of the regional legislation covering living wills.
Results: A total of 1.
Patient report on information given, consultation time and safety in primary care.
Qual Saf Health Care
October 2010
Objective: To analyse the frequency of adverse events to treatment reported by patients in relation to consultation time, attention from their usual doctor and information provided by their doctor about treatment.
Design: Descriptive study. Patients were invited to respond to a telephone survey.
Background: We sought to evaluate the satisfaction of surgical patients in order to identify predictors of patient satisfaction, using a cross-sectional surgery patients' survey in 24 public hospitals in Spain and a total of 15,539 inpatients and 7,899 outpatients.
Results: Seventy-seven percent of inpatients and 88.3% of outpatients were satisfied (chi(2) = 509.