[Predicting Care and Repercussions for Caregivers of Surgical Patients at Home].

Objectives: To analyze the correlation between the state of health, knowledge, and social support of surgical patients' caregivers at home, with the intensity of nursing care and its consequences.

Methods: A longitudinal observational study with follow-up at admission, discharge and 10 days following discharge at home, held in the surgical hospitalization unit at the Vic University Hospital, (Barcelona). A non-randomized and consecutive sample of 317 informal caregivers of surgical patients with abdominal surgery was included in the study.

Impact of maternity care policy in Catalonia: a retrospective cross-sectional study of service delivery in public and private hospitals.

Background: As a result of the growing number of interventions that are now performed in the context of maternity care, health authorities have begun to examine the possible repercussions for service provision and for maternal and neonatal health. In Spain the Strategy Paper on Normal Childbirth was published in 2008, and since then the authorities in Catalonia have sought to implement its recommendations. This paper reviews the current provision of maternity care in Catalonia.