Influence of income on in-hospital mortality in older adults during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic: results from the EDEN-33 study.

Objectives: To determine whether income was associated with unexpected in-hospital mortality in older patients treated in Spanish public health system hospital emergency departments.

Material And Methods: Fifty-one public health system hospital emergency departments in Spain voluntarily participated in the study. Together the hospitals covered 25% of the population aged 65 years or older included in all patient registers during a week in the pre-pandemic period (April 1-7, 2019) and a week during the COVID-19 pandemic (March 30 to April 5, 2020).

Safety and Revisit Related to Discharge the Sixty-one Spanish Emergency Department Medical Centers Without Hospitalization in Patients with COVID-19 Pneumonia. A Prospective Cohort Study UMC-Pneumonia COVID-19.

Background: Information is needed on the safety and efficacy of direct discharge from the emergency department (ED) of patients with COVID-19 pneumonia.

Objectives: The objectives of the study were to study the variables associated with discharge from the ED in patients presenting with COVID-19 pneumonia, and study ED revisits related to COVID-19 at 30 days (EDR30d).

Methods: Multicenter study of the SIESTA cohort including 1198 randomly selected COVID patients in 61 EDs of Spanish medical centers from March 1, 2020, to April 30, 2020.

[Treatment of chronic osteomuscular pain].

Objective: To describe the prevalence of use of the 3 analgesic steps of the WHO in patients with chronic osteomuscular pain at 2 primary care centres, by means of personal interviews during the second semester of 2003 and first of 2004.

Design: Cross-sectional, observational, descriptive study.

Setting: Health centres of Puerto de Sagunto (Valencia) and Alto Palancia (Castellón), Spain.

[Quality of life in osteomuscular chronic pain].

Background And Objective: To value the quality of life of the patients with osteomuscular chronic pain users of two Primary Care Centres, by means of the application of questionnaire COOP-WONCA adapted to the Spanish during the second semester of 2003 and first of 2004.

Material And Methods: Cross-sectional observational descriptive design. Systematic random sample.