[Effect of the incorporation of a general practitioner on emergency department effectiveness].

Background And Objectives: To know the effect that the presence of a general practitioner (GP) has on emergency department's effectiveness, efficiency and health care.

Patients And Method: Prospective interventional study carried out in the emergency medicine unit fast track area (FTA), which is ideally opened from 8 am to 12 am, and staffed by 2 residents.

Intervention: 8 resident hours (from 4 pm to 12 am) were substituted by 8 GP hours.

[Control of blood pressure in a population of patients with hypertension and in a subgroup with hypertension and diabetes: relationship with characteristics of the health care center and the community].

Aims: To evaluate how well blood pressure (BP) is controlled in the population of persons with hypertension alone and with diabetes, and to evaluate the influence of characteristics of the health care center on the degree of control of BP. Design. Descriptive, cross-sectional, multicenter, retrospective study.

[Cardiovascular morbidity and its relationship to left ventricular hypertrophy in a cohort of hypertensive patients: the Gòtic study].

Background: To describe cardiovascular morbidity of a hypertensive patients cohort and relate it to the presence of left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH), LVH geometric patterns, other cardiovascular risk factors (CRF), previous pathology (PP) and a range of variables.

Design: Prospective study of the cohort visited in a from 1993 to 1998. Place.