Study protocol of a quasi-experimental trial to compare two models of home care for older people in the primary setting.

Background: Preventive home visits are suited for patients with reduced mobility, such as older people. Healthcare needs for older patients are expected to increase due to the extended life expectancy estimated in coming years. The implementation of low-cost, patient-centered methodologies may buffer this rise in health care costs without affecting the quality of service.

Developing Evidence-Based Practice questionnaire for community health nurses: reliability and validity of a Spanish adaptation.

Aims And Objectives: This study aimed to translate the community nursing version of the Developing Evidence-Based Practice questionnaire, adapt the Spanish translation to the primary care context in Spain, and evaluate its reliability and validity.

Background: Instruments available in Spanish to date are not designed to rigorously evaluate barriers and incentives associated with evidence-based practice implementation in community health nursing.

Design: Classical Test Theory approach.

Predictors of mortality among elderly dependent home care patients.

Background: The purpose of this study is to identify which variables--among those commonly available and used in the primary care setting--best predict mortality in a cohort of elderly dependent patients living at home (EDPLH) that were included in a home care program provided by Primary Care Teams (PCT). Additionally, we explored the risk of death among a sub-group of these patients that were admitted to hospital the year before they entered the home care program.

Methods: A one-year longitudinal cohort study of a sample of EDPLH patients included in a home care programme provided by 72 PCTs.

[Performance improvement project for the introduction of safety devices: interdisciplinary approach and participation of professionals].

Objective: Develop a performance improvement project to introduce safety needle tube holder for venous blood collection after evaluation of the professionals.

Methods: Reach: Costa Ponent Primary Care Direction and the Hospital Viladecans Hospital from Institute Català de la Salut.

Method: Create interdisciplinary group.

[Factors associated with hospitalization in a cohort of elderly patients included in a home care program].

Background And Objective: The objective is to identify the features associated with next year hospital admissions among elderly dependent patients living at home (EDLH) and visited by primary care teams at their home setting.

Patients And Method: Longitudinal cohort study of a sample of EDLH patients admitted to a home care programme delivered by 72 primary care teams. A global health assessment was performed at recruitment in all patients (health and social status, informal and formal carer characteristics and burden of care).