Publications by authors named "Miquel Quesada Sabate"
Objective: To determine the utility and viability of a chronic care program.
Design: Cross-sectional descriptive study with qualitative and quantitative evaluation.
Setting And Participants: 26 primary care teams (PCT) from the Catalan health service of Gerona.
Background And Objective: To determine the prevalence of occult chronic kidney disease (CKD) and the associated clinical variables in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM-2).
Patients And Method: Observational, laboratory and cross-sectional study of patients with DM-2 from primary care settings. Demographic and anthropometric data, previous illnesses and measures of cardiovascular risk and kidney function were collected from electronic medical records.
Objective: To evaluate the effectiveness of a multifactorial and community intervention programme to decrease the number of falls and their complications in the >or=70 years population in a community.
Design: Multicentre, community intervention study, with no random assignment and with controls.
Setting: Two basic health areas in the province of Girona (Spain).
Objectives: To improve quality of life, anxiety and depression in caregivers of patients in home care.
Methods: We performed a randomized clinical trial in 79 main caregivers (39 control group and 40 intervention group) of patients in the home care program of a primary care health center between 2000 and 2001. Quality of life, anxiety and depression were measured by the COOP/WONCA and Goldberg questionnaires, respectively, at the beginning and at the end of the study.