Publications by authors named "Francesc Orfila Pernas"
Objective: To evaluate the perceptions and preferences of users and health professionals on teleconsultation in primary care.
Design: Cross-sectional study with a telephone survey of users and a face-to-face survey of professionals carried out at 2021.
Setting: Urban primary health care.
Dynamics of multimorbidity and frailty, and their contribution to mortality, nursing home and home care need: A primary care cohort of 1 456 052 ageing people.
EClinicalMedicine
October 2022
Article Synopsis
- The study investigates how multimorbidity (the presence of multiple chronic conditions) and frailty (a decline in physical function) evolve as people age, and their relationships with health outcomes like mortality, nursing home admissions, and home care needs.
- The research was based on data from over 1.4 million elderly patients in Catalonia between 2010 and 2019, using established instruments to assess frailty and multimorbidity over time.
- Findings show that while multimorbidity rates remain high across ages, frailty significantly increases with age, shifting from being disease-focused in younger seniors to relating more to disabilities and deficits in older seniors, impacting care needs differently.
Unlabelled: Objetive To describe the incidence and mortality of the first wave of COVID-19 in the elderly population of Barcelona, according to their previous levels of frailty.
Design: Retrospective cohort study.
Setting And Participants: Population aged 65 or over assigned to the Barcelona Primary Care centres of the Institut Català de la Salut, followed between March and June 2020.
Background: Frail subjects are at increased risk of adverse outcomes. We aimed to assess their risk of falls, all-cause mortality, and fractures.
Method: We used a retrospective cohort study using the Sistema d'Informació per al Desenvolupament de l'Investigació en Atenció Primària database (>6 million residents).
Objective: To estimate the prevalence of burnout and the perception of teamwork in Primary Care teams from Barcelona.
Design: Multicenter cross-sectional.
Location: Primary Health Care Teams from Barcelona.