[PERSIRIS study: observational study, postmarketing, prospective, to evaluate the persistence to treatment with monthly risedronate in women with osteoporosis].

Objective: To assess the persistence of treatment with monthly risedronate and know the reasons of persistence and nontherapeutic persistence and the profile of the non-persistent patients.

Desing: Observational, postmarketin and prospective study.

Location: Primary care, traumatology, rheumatology, gynecology and geriatrics of Catalonia.

Nursing workload predictors in Catalonia (Spain): a home care cohort study.

Objective: To identify the characteristics of chronic patients and their environment in order to predict the nursing workload required 1 year after their inclusion in a home care program.

Methods: A longitudinal study was carried out in 72 primary health care teams in Catalonia (Spain) with a 1-year follow-up of 1,068 home care patients over 64 years old. The variables collected from each patient included data on health and social status (Charlson and Barthel indexes and the Pfeiffer, Braden and Gijon scales), carer overburden (Zarit scale), hospital admissions, use of emergency services, self-perceived health (SF-12) and the number of health worker visits.

[Health problems also explain social services use in home care].

Objective: To identify which social and health variables are associated with receiving social services in patients included in home care programmes with the implementation of the Dependence Law.

Design: Cross-sectional study.

Setting: 72 primary health care teams in Catalonia.