[Key recommendations of the clinical guidelines of arterial hypertension in primary care].

Background: Hypertension ranks first medical care in first level units. It is estimated that half of the patients with hypertension are uncontrolled. The purpose of this document is to provide recommendations to guide diagnosis and treatment of arterial hypertension in primary care, which have been considered key to the process of care, in order to help health professionals in the clinical decision-making.

[Gait, balance and independence rehabilitation program in elderly adults in a primary care unit].

Objective: to evaluate the effect of a supervised rehabilitation program to improve gait, balance and independence in elderly patients attending a family medicine unit.

Methods: we conducted a quasi-experimental study over a period of four weeks in a group of 72 patients older than 65 years.

Intervention: a supervised program regarding the risk factors for falling, and balance, gait, coordination and oculovestibular system, the modalities to be done two or three times a week in the primary care unit or at home.

[Development and validation of an instrument to measure the satisfaction of users of rehabilitation services].

Objective: To develop and validate an instrument to measure users' satisfaction of rehabilitation services.

Methods: Literature review to identify main construct domains, elaboration of items, pilot testing to reduce the number of items and redefinition of the questionnaire. The face and content validity were established by rehabilitation specialists.

[Contribution of electroneuromyography to the evaluation of neuropathy in diabetic patients].

Objective: To determine the type and the frequency of diabetic neuropathy, diagnosed by electroneuromyography, in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus, and the correlation between the neuropathy diagnosis and clinical symptoms.

Design: Cross-sectional descriptive and correlative of patients with diagnosis of type 2 diabetes mellitus, sent for electroneuromyography study in 2000. Study place: Laboratory of electrodiagnosis of the Unidad de Medicina Física y Rehabilitación Región Norte.