[Outbreak of Raoultella ornithinolytica infection in patients cared at a hemodialysis center].

Objective: In July 2022, an outbreak of Raoultella ornithinolytica infection was detected in users of a hemodialysis center in Granada and central venous catheter (CVC) users. The aim of this study was to describe the development of the outbreak and the control measures implemented as well as to identify the risk factors that may have been related to its origin.

Methods: A study of a series of thirteen cases with positive blood culture for Raoultella ornithinolytica was conducted during July 2022.

[Referrals and sex of physicians and patients: a gender analysis, Andalussia, Spain].

Background: It has been identified differences of medical care practice in primary care related to physician's sex. Simultaneously, there are gender inequalities in the assignment of health resources. Both aspects give rise to an increasing growing interest in the management and provision of health services.