Effectiveness of implementing a Best Practice Guideline recommendations to manage pain in oncological hospitalized patients.

Objective: To evaluate the effectiveness of implementing the Clinical Best Practice Guideline (BPG) "Assessment and Management of Pain" recommendations for pain control in oncological/oncohaematological hospitalized patients.

Methods: Ambispective cohort study.

Sample And Setting: Adults admitted to oncological unit in Hospital of Albacete.

Effectiveness of a best practice guideline to manage pain in surgical patients.

Background: The prevention and control of acute postoperative pain is essential, not only to avoid unnecessary suffering, but to reduce postoperative morbidity, recovery time, hospital stay and associated costs.

Aim: To evaluate the effectiveness of implementing the Clinical Best Practice Guideline (BPG) "Assessment and Management of Pain" recommendations for pain control in surgical patients.

Methods: Prospective, observational, longitudinal study.

Implementation of the Best practice guideline: Stroke assessment across the continuum of care in hospitalised patients.

Introduction: Stroke is an important cause of morbidity and mortality in adults and implies high social and healthcare costs due to the consequences it causes. To minimize these, it is important to apply best practice guidelines that ensure evidence-based care and reduce clinical variability. The objective of the study is to evaluate the results of implantation of the Ictus Best Practice Guideline for attending in-hospital stroke patients.

[Hospitalisation as a risk for functional decline in older adults].

Unlabelled: FUNCTIONAL DECLINE: (FD) is a risk associated with hospital admission in older people, due to its high prevalence (35-70%) and its serious consequences.

Aim: To determine the incidence of FD in the elderly after hospital admission at the Geriatric and Internal Medicine wards of a tertiary teaching hospital (Albacete, Spain).

Method: A cohort study has been designed, whose primary focus was FD, defined as the loss of independence to perform the activities of daily living between preadmission status and discharge.