Molecular Characterization of Isolates Infecting and in Spain.

Quinoa is an expanding crop in southern Spain. Downy mildew, caused by , is the most important quinoa disease in Spain and worldwide. In Spain, this disease has also been observed on the weed .

[Impact assessment on data protection in research projects].

Recent changes in European regulations for personal data protection still allow the use of health data for research purposes, but they have set the Impact Assessment on Data Protection as an instrument for reflection and risk analysis in the process of data processing. The publication of a guide for facilitates this impact assessment, although it is not directly applicable to research projects. Experience in a specific project is detailed, showing how the context of the treatment becomes relevant with respect to the data characteristics.

[Health record linkage: Andalusian health population database].

Objective: To describe the development of an information system that connects data from multiple health records to improve assistance to patients, health services administration, management, evaluation, and inspection, as well as public health and research.

Method: Deterministic connection of pseudonymized data from a population of 8.5 million inhabitants provided by: a users database, DIRAYA electronic medical records, minimum basic data sets (inpatients, outpatient mayor surgery, hospital emergencies and medical day hospital), mental health information systems, analytical and image tests, vaccines, renal patients, and pharmacy.

[Ethics in health technology assessment. Review].

Introduction: Bioethics and the health technologies assessment emerged to help make decisions. The objective of the work was to know, with respect to the health technologies assessment, the scientific production on its ethical issues, the degree of incorporation of these in practice, the inclusion of the values in the deliberative processes and the most relevant approaches to ethical analysis.

Methodology: A narrative review was made, based on a systematic search of literature in both natural and hierarchical language, using the terms technology assessment biomedical, ethics and deliberation (and its related terms).

Treatment of advanced laryngeal cancer and quality of life. Systematic review.

Introduction And Objectives: The objective was the comparison of the quality of life in patients with advanced laryngeal cancer treated with organ preservation versus surgical treatment.

Methods: We performed a systematic review in the databases MedLine, EMBASE, and PubMed (2014 1991) and Web of Science (2012 - 2014). The search terms were: Laryngeal cancer, organ preservation, chemotherapy, laryngectomy, treatment outcomes and quality of life.