Publications by authors named "M Bernabeu-Wittel"
Objective: To analyze the reliability and validity of the SERVPERF questionnaire for assessing the quality of care from the patient's perspective in emergency departments for abdominal pain patients undergoing clinical ultrasound, as well as the influence of sex.
Design: Prospective study from March 2023 to April 2024 involving patients treated for abdominal pain who underwent clinical ultrasound.
Setting: Emergency department.
Background: Chronic heart failure (CHF) is a major health problem, representing the main cause of hospitalization in people over 65 years of age. Several studies have associated the Mediterranean diet with a cardioprotective function, improving prognoses in patients with high cardiovascular risk. Our main objective is to determine whether higher adherence to the Mediterranean diet is associated with a lower severity of CHF, based on the number of decompensations and disease complications.
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- Sarcopenia, or low muscle strength, is a significant comorbidity in patients with acute heart failure (AHF), potentially worsening their prognosis, leading researchers to study its impact on these patients.
- The study analyzed 377 AHF patients and found that 82.23% had low muscle strength, which was associated with older age, cognitive impairment, and poorer functional status.
- Results indicated that patients with low muscle strength had higher rates of readmission and mortality, reinforcing the link between low muscle strength and worse outcomes in AHF.
Background: The future European Health Research and Innovation Cloud (HRIC), as fundamental part of the European Health Data Space (EHDS), will promote the secondary use of data and the capabilities to push the boundaries of health research within an ethical and legally compliant framework that reinforces the trust of patients and citizens.
Objective: This study aimed to analyse health data management mechanisms in Europe to determine their alignment with FAIR principles and data discovery generating best. practices for new data hubs joining the HRIC ecosystem.
The aim of this study was to analyze the impact and the clinical and evolutionary characteristics of hypotonic hyponatremia in patients hospitalized in Internal Medicine units. Prospective multicenter observational study of patients with hypotonic hyponatremia (<135 mmol/L) in 5 hospitals in southern Spain. Patients were included according to point prevalence studies carried out every 2 weeks between March 2015 and October 2017, by assessing demographic, clinical, analytical, and management data; each patient was subsequently followed up for 12 months, during which time mortality and readmissions were assessed.
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