Publications by authors named "M Serrarols"
Background: A program of Compassionate City or Community (CC) has been designed and developed in the City of Vic (43,964 habitants, Barcelona, Spain), based on The Compassionate City Charter and other public health literature and experiments, with the joint leadership of the City Council and the Chair of Palliative Care at the University of Vic, and as an expansion of a comprehensive and integrated system of palliative care.
Methods: The program started with an assessment of needs of the city as identified by 48 social organizations with a foundational workshop and a semi-structured survey. After this assessment, the mission, vision, values and aims were agreed.
Objectives: estimation of functional loss incidence and identification of risk factors associated with new disability onset in people aged 75 and older without severe dependence in a rural primary care setting.
Patients And Method: Prospective cohort study of a representative sample of people aged 75 years or older without severe dependence (Barthel Index>20 and Lawton Index>1) at a primary care center, with a 12-month follow-up. The baseline geriatric assessment recorded activities of daily living (ADL), sociodemographic information, numbers of drugs prescribed, previous hospital admissions and falls, cognitive function, hearing and visual capacity, body mass index, blood pressure, and the Short Physical Performance Battery to evaluate lower limb function.
Background: Scientific societies recommend assessing lower limb function in usual clinical practice. The Short Physical Performance Battery (SPPB) is one of the most validated tools to assess this, but its capacity to predict long-term mortality in very old population attending primary care has not been studied.
Objective: To assess the ability of the SPPB to predict 10-year survival in individuals aged 75 and over.
Objectives: To identify the factors associated with functional status in a population aged ≥ 75 years without severe dependence.
Methods: A cross-sectional study of a random sample (n = 315) of elderly persons in a primary care setting (El Remei Primary Care Center, Vic, Barcelona, Spain) was carried out. Functional status was evaluated by three physical performance tests: the Guralnik chair stand test of lower limb function, Lawton-Brody's index of instrumental activities of daily living (IADL), and the Barthel index of basic activities of daily living (BADL).
Background: The use of calcitonin is very common in patients diagnosed with osteoporosis. The objective of this study was to determine the percentage of adequate prescriptions of calcitonin for patients with osteoporosis and to estimate the costs due to inadequate prescription.
Patients And Methods: Observational study.