Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Burnout in Primary Care Physicians in Catalonia.

Background: Recent demands to raise the clinical quality, improve the patient experience, and decrease costs have progressively increased burnout among primary care physicians. This overstretched situation has been greatly aggravated since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. The aim of the study is to analyse the prevalence of burnout among primary care physicians and to assess the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on burnout.

[Interactions between herbals medicines and drugs in chronic patients with complexity in primary care.].

Objective: Taking medicinal herbs (MH) is frequent in patients and can cause interactions with others medications. Consumption of MH could be high in chronic patients with complexity (CPC) and produce interactions with drugs and knowledge about these drugs in primary health care (PC) professionals about these interactions is low. The aim was to measure the prevalence of potencial interactions between HM and drugs in CPC and evaluate the degree of knowledge of PC professionals.

[Impact of the eConsultation on the primary care agenda].

Objective: A «before and after» type observational study was carried out to assess the impact of the virtual consultation (eConsulta) on the frequency with which the patient visits their primary care center once they have had their first virtual consultation.

Setting: Assigned population of the primary care center of Masnou-Alella and Ocata-Teià, Catalan Health Institute.

Participants: A random sampling was performed and 329 patients who engaged in eConsulta were compared with 329 statistically similar patients in age, sex and medical complexity who did not engage in eConsulta.

Primary Care Records of Chronic-Disease Patient Adherence to Treatment.

The goal of managing adherence (AD) is to achieve better medication use by patients in order to maximize benefits and reduce risks. With the aim of improving treatment adherence by patients, we carried out a descriptive study to obtain information related to adherence management in primary care. Inclusion criteria were as follows: patients that had at least one record of any treatment adherence assessment variable.

[Descriptive study of the health service workers of a Primary Care Department confined by Covid-19.].

Objective: The Covid-19 pandemic is testing the resistance of health systems, the preservation of health professionals is a priority in processes of this type. The professionals' exposure to suspicious contacts often requires their confinement. The objective was to know the epidemiological characteristics of the primary care professionals who required confinement.