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.

Relationship between Motor and Nonmotor Symptoms and Quality of Life in Patients with Parkinson's Disease.

Background: Parkinson's disease (PD) is a chronic neurodegenerative disease that implies a progressive and invalidating functional organic disorder, which continues to evolve till the end of life and causes different mental and physical alterations that influence the quality of life of those affected.

Objective: To determine the relationship between motor and nonmotor symptoms and the quality of life of persons with PD.

Methods: An analytic, descriptive, cross-sectional study was conducted with patients with different degrees of PD in the Albacete Health district.

Predictive Model of Quality of Life in Patients with Parkinson's Disease.

Unlabelled: Parkinson's disease is a chronic, progressive, and disabling neurodegenerative disease which evolves until the end of life and triggers different mood and organic alterations that influence health-related quality of life. The objective of our study was to identify the factors that negatively impact the quality of life of patients with Parkinson's disease and construct a predictive model of health-related quality of life in these patients.

Methods: An analytical, prospective observational study was carried out, including Parkinson's patients at different stages in the Albacete Health Area.

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.

Evolution of Quality of Life in Persons with Parkinson's Disease: A Prospective Cohort Study.

Parkinson's disease (PD) is a chronic neurodegenerative disorder that results in important functional symptoms, altered mood, and deterioration in quality of life (QoL). This study aimed to determine the evolution of the QoL in persons with PD in the Albacete health district over a two-year period and identify associated sociodemographic, clinical, and socio-health characteristics. A cohort study was conducted of patients at different stages of PD in the Albacete health district.

Preventing Functional Urinary Incontinence in Hip-Fractured Older Adults Through Patient Education: A Randomized Controlled Trial.

The purpose of this study was to evaluate whether an educational intervention would reduce the incidence of functional urinary incontinence (UI) in older adults with a fall-related hip fracture. The project was conducted as a multicenter randomized controlled trial (RCT). A total of 109 patients that had been admitted to six hospitals in Castilla-La Mancha (Spain) for acute treatment of hip fracture, previously continent and without cognitive impairment, were enrolled and randomly assigned to the experimental group (EG) or the control group (CG).

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.

Recovery of activities of daily living among older people one year after hip fracture.

This article aims to determine the functional recovery of older people, who were previously independent in activities of daily living (ADLs) and without cognitive impairment, in the year following a fall-related hip fracture. A cohort study was carried out among patients admitted to University General Hospital of Albacete (Spain). Consecutive sampling was performed.

[Characteristics of hip fracture and functional recovery in elderly people with a history of recurrent falling].

Unlabelled: Recurrent falls affect between 14.8% and 19% of the elderly population, and are associated with an increased risk of fracture. We know little about the influence the history of recurrent falls may have on recovery after hip fracture.

[Analysis of hip-fracture falls in the elderly].

Aims: To identify the circumstances associated with falls resulting in hip fracture in the elderly, and risk factors for this kind of fall.

Method: A 12 month observational study of patients over 65 years, admitted for hip fracture resulting from a fall to the General University Hospital of Albacete.

Variables: demographic data, circumstances of fall, type of fracture, previous falls, associated diseases, regular drug treatment and mental status, collected from medical records and interviews.