Standardizing nursing degree curriculum structure in Spain: A mixed-methods study.

Background: Legislation regulating Spanish and European academic curricula prescribes a certain level of knowledge and skills any student must master. Spanish universities freely decide the number of credits assigned to each subject and in which year the subject will be taught. We hypothesize that this flexibility may give way to excessively heterogeneous training across universities in nursing degrees.

Hospitalization and Socio-Health Care for Dementia in Spain.

Dementias are brain diseases that affect long-term cognitive and behavioral functions and cause a decrease in the ability to think and remember that is severe enough to disturb daily functioning. In Spain, the number of people suffering from dementia is rising due to population ageing. Reducing admissions, many of them avoidable, would be advantageous for patients and care-providers.

Hospitalization trends and chronobiology for mental disorders in Spain from 2005 to 2015.

Rhythm research has had a long tradition in psychiatry, especially in affective disorders. The study of trends in incidence plays a central role in epidemiology and public health. The aims of this research were to describe the socio-demographic and clinical characteristics of persons admitted for psychiatric hospitalization and their trends and periodicity in cases (global and by groups) in Spain over the 11 year study span.

[Impact of COVID-19 on mortality in the autonomous community of Castilla y León (Spain)].

Objective: To estimate the increase in mortality associated with the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus pandemic in the autonomous community of Castilla y León (Spain).

Method: Ecological study based on population and death data for the months of March 2016 to 2020 in Castilla y León. The general and provincial standardized rates, the relative risks of the year 2020 with respect to previous years and the risks adjusted by sex, periods and province, using Poisson regression, were calculated.

Objective ADHD Diagnosis Using Convolutional Neural Networks Over Daily-Life Activity Records.

Unlabelled: Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is the most common neurobehavioral disorder in children and adolescents. However, its etiology is still unknown, and this hinders the existence of reliable, fast and inexpensive standard diagnostic methods.

Objective: This paper proposes an end-to-end methodology for automatic diagnosis of the combined type of ADHD.

Relationship between seasonal influenza rates and hospitalization and mortality rates due to acute cardiovascular diseases in a Spanish region.

Introduction And Objective: Influenza virus infection can contribute to cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. The purpose of this study is to confirm if the increase in seasonal influenza rates is associated with a growth in hospitalisation and mortality rates for acute cardiovascular diseases (ACVD).

Methods: Retrospective cohort study of hospital discharges due to ACVD (myocardial infarction, unstable angina, heart failure and ischemic stroke) in the Castilla y León (Spain) hospital system between 2001 and 2015.

[Circadian variation in the effectiveness of reperfusion therapy in ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction treated with primary angioplasty and circadian associations with prognosis].

Objectives: To explore circadian variation in the effectiveness of percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) to treat ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) To explore the effects of circardian variation on infarct extension and in-hospital complications.

Material And Methods: Observational retrospective cohort study including patients with PTCA-treated STEMI in a tertiary care university hospital between March 2003 and August 2009. The independent variable of interest was the time of onset of STEMI symptoms, grouped in 6-hour time frames.

[Relation between myocardial infarction and circadian rhythm in patients attended in a prehospital emergency service].

Background And Objectives: The aim of this study is to analyze the presence of circadian rhythm in the time of onset of symptoms of acute myocardial infarction treated by a prehospital emergency system and the influence of modifiable cardiovascular risk factors and non-modifiable as modulators of that circadian rhythm.

Patients And Methods: Retrospective analysis of 709 patients clinically diagnosed with acute myocardial infarction on-site in the prehospital setting. The variables were time to onset of symptoms, age, sex, previous ischemic heart disease, hypertension, diabetes mellitus, hyperlipidemia and smoking.

Characterization of activity epochs in actimetric registries for infantile colic diagnosis: Identification and feature extraction based on wavelets and symbolic dynamics.

The diagnosis and therapy planning of high prevalence pathologies such as infantile colic can be substantially improved by statistical signal processing of activity/rest registries. Assuming that colic episodes are associated to activity episodes, diagnosis aid systems should be based on preprocessing techniques able to separate real activity from rest epochs, and feature extraction methods to identify meaningful indices with diagnostic capabilities. In this paper, we propose a two step diagnosis aid methodology for infantile colic in children below 3 months old.

Melatonin rhythm in children with enuresis.

Objective: To study the circadian rhythm of melatonin in children with enuresis.

Patients And Methods: Twenty-five children, divided into two groups (enuretic patients and controls) were assessed; salivary samples were collected to measure melatonin by radioimmunoassay using commercial kits. Friedman two-way anova and Wilcoxon tests were used to assess the circadian rhythm of melatonin, and anova with between-patient factors and Mann-Whitney tests to compare melatonin values and groups.

[Differential circadian rhythms in myocardial infarction according to its extent by electrocardiogram].

Background And Objective: To determine the existence of circadian rhythm in the time of onset of acute myocardial infarction (AMI) according to their extension type (Q-wave vs. non-Q-wave).

Patients And Method: We studied a retrospective cohort of patients from a multicentre study of myocardial infarction (ARIAM study group).

[Cardiovascular risk factors in the circadian rhythm of acute myocardial infarction].

Introduction And Objectives: The aim of this study was to analyze the influence of modifiable cardiovascular risk factors on the circadian rhythm of acute myocardial infarction.

Patients And Method: We analyzed a retrospective cohort of 54,249 patients from a multicenter study of acute myocardial infarction (the Spanish ARIAM study). The variables were time of onset of symptoms, age, sex, previous ischemic heart disease, coronary unit discharge status, previous stroke, familial antecedents of ischemic heart disease, hypertension, diabetes, dyslipidemia, smoking, and reinfarction.