[Survival of patients diagnosed with prostate cancer and monitored in primary care].

Objective: To study survival of patients with prostate cancer and its relationship with diagnostic delay.

Design: Retrospective cohort study.

Setting: Six rural primary care practices.

[Compliance with the metabolic goals in diabetes mellitus treatment in the rural area of Ourense, Spain].

Background: To evaluate the degree to which the metabolic check-up objectives among Type II diabetes patients were met in rural primary care by comparing them to the values recommended by the American Diabetes Association (ADA) and the Diabetes in Primary Care Study Group (GEDAPS).

Methods: Descriptive cross-sectional study. A sample size was calculated based on the glycosolated hemoglobin (HbA1c) test in 119 individuals.

[Impact of the format of presentation of results in clinical trials on the intention of prescription in primary care. A crossed clinical trial in Ourense].

Background: Given that there are different ways of setting out clinical test results, this study is aimed at ascertaining whether the way in which these results are set out has any bearing on the intention to prescribed on the part of Primary Care physicians.

Methods: Randomized, multi-center cross-study. Following a random sampling of Eight Primary Care Teams in the province of Ourense (Spain), two groups of family physicians (nA = 45 and nB = 51) were surveyed by means of a questionnaire on which the data from five published clinical tests (three on heart disease preventation, one on cognitive benefit in a dementia syndrome and another on preventing fractures among the elderly) was shown.