Assessing variability in compliance with recommendations given by the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) for patients with type 2 diabetes in primary care using electronic records. The APNA study.

Objective: Assess compliance with the IDF recommendations for patients with Diabetes Type2 (DM2), and its variability, by groups of doctors and nurses who provide primary care services in Navarre (Spain).

Materials And Methodologies: A cross-sectional study of a population of 462,568 inhabitants, aged ≥18 years in 2013, attended by 381 units of doctor/nurse (quota). Clinical data were collected retrospectively through electronic records.

[Profile of the Emergency demand and influence of televised soccer games on an extra-hospital center in the Tafalla health care district. Navarre, Spain].

Background: The demand placed on both hospital as well as extrahospital emergency care units currently continues to increase at a growing rate. This study has a twofold objective: the quantification and study of the personal characteristics of the users who are demanding emergency care and assessing whether televised soccer games have any bearing on the utilization of emergency care services.

Methods: A longitudinal descriptive study (9,723 users demanding care) and study of cases and controls (1,284 users demanding care) according to whether or not a soccer game was being televised by means of a logistic regression model.

[Salmonella enteritis in Huesca. 1996-1999].

Background: The enteritis due to Salmonella is still an important cause of infectious gastroenteritis, that is responsible of 85% of the foodborne outbreaks in Spain. It represents without any doubt a public health problem that involves several health care services and preventive services.

Subjects And Method: Using two sources of information: the National Diseases Surveillance System and the Microbiology Laboratories of the Hospitals (MLH) we estimated the incidence of Salmonella infection by the capture-recapture method.