Publications by authors named "Cristina Sardina-Gonzalez"
Effectiveness of the contingency plan for social and health care during the COVID-19 pandemic in a health district in northwestern Spain.
Rev Esp Geriatr Gerontol
November 2023
Article Synopsis
- During the COVID-19 pandemic, the Public Hospital of Monforte in Lugo, Spain, implemented a specific contingency plan to address healthcare challenges and evaluate its effectiveness.
- A qualitative assessment was conducted using phenomenological sampling and a structured checklist to analyze various outcome indicators, such as hospital admissions and healthcare responses.
- The findings underscored the importance of an emergency decision-making team and communication mechanisms, highlighting that adapting existing models can enhance patient care and identify areas for improvement in healthcare services.
Paraneoplastic syndromes (PNS) are a group of disorders that can affect the oncologic patient, and which are not directly attributable to tumour invasion, tumour compression or metastasis. In fact, they are due to tumour secretion of functional hormones or peptides or are related to immune cross-reactivity with the host tissue. These syndromes are called paraneoplastic because the components that cause them do not derive from the organ or tissue of origin, but from the neoplasm suffered by the patient.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe aimed to determine the impact of steroid use in COVID-19 in-hospital mortality, in a retrospective cohort study of the SEMICOVID19 database of admitted patients with SARS-CoV-2 laboratory-confirmed pneumonia from 131 Spanish hospitals. Patients treated with corticosteroids were compared to patients not treated with corticosteroids; and adjusted using a propensity-score for steroid treatment. From March-July 2020, 5.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: The COVID-19 pandemic has brought about a paradigm shift in healthcare.
Objective: To evaluate the utility of a strategy to comprehensively address the pandemic in a health area that covers 42,000 people.
Method: Between March 10 and May 15, 2020, the COVID Unit was created in the corresponding regional hospital, and an independent circuit was established for the diagnosis and management of patients with suspected or confirmed COVID-19; social health centers were monitored with PCR testing.