[Advance care planning and use of health resources among COVID-19 nursing home patients in an integrated health care program for frail elders].

Objectives: To estimate the magnitude and importance of a process of stratification and advance care planning and the use of health resources, among patients in an integrated health care program for frail elderls in nursing homes,that were referred to the hospital with COVID-19.

Material And Methods: Prospective cohort study of patients >64 years old with COVID-19 infection, in a health care program in nursing homes (from 3/15/2020 to 9/15/2020). The identification of patients with palliative needs, the performing and visible registration in electronic health records of the advance care planning and the use of intensive care were assessed.

[Direct medical costs of hospitalization due to heart failure in the health plan of the Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires.].

Introduction: It is undeniable that costs of medical care in chronic diseases has increased. There are multiple reasons: population aging, associated pathologies late complications, available high cost health technologies. Heart failure is one of the main causes of global death and morbidity, being the final consequence of cardiac diseases and hypertension, fulfilling criteria of becoming a high costs pathology.

[Persistence in drug therapy of hypertension among different treatment groups and comparison between fixed-dose combinations of ara II + calcium channel blockers vs ace inhibitors + calcium channel blockers].

Unlabelled: High blood pressure (HBP) is a prevalent and chronic disease, requiring pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic sustainable treatment to achieve control. "Persistence" is the continuity of pharmacological treatments. Knowing the persistence of antihypertensive therapy groups could help prioritize those with better results.