[PERSIRIS study: observational study, postmarketing, prospective, to evaluate the persistence to treatment with monthly risedronate in women with osteoporosis].

Objective: To assess the persistence of treatment with monthly risedronate and know the reasons of persistence and nontherapeutic persistence and the profile of the non-persistent patients.

Desing: Observational, postmarketin and prospective study.

Location: Primary care, traumatology, rheumatology, gynecology and geriatrics of Catalonia.

[Indicator condition guided human immunodeficiency virus requesting in primary health care: results of a collaboration].

Introduction: The search of HIV infected patients guided by indicator conditions (IC) is a strategy used to increase the early detection of HIV. The objective is to analyze whether a collaboration to raise awareness of the importance of early detection of HIV in 3 primary care centers influenced the proportion of HIV serology requested.

Methods: Multicenter retrospective study was conducted comparing the baseline and a post-collaboration period.

Validity and applicability of a new recording method for hypertension.

Introduction And Objectives: Blood pressure measurement methods and conditions are determinants of hypertension diagnosis. A recent British guideline recommends systematic 24-h ambulatory blood pressure monitoring. However, these devices are not available at all health centers and they can only be used by 1 patient per day.