Publications by authors named "V Martinez-Ruiz"
Evolution of the risk of death and hospitalisation in drivers involved in road crashes in spain, 1993-2020: an age-period-cohort analysis.
Inj Epidemiol
December 2024
Article Synopsis
- The study aimed to analyze trends in road crash severity among drivers in Spain from 1993 to 2020, focusing on factors like age, period, and birth cohort impacting risks of death and hospitalization.
- The analysis involved a large dataset of over 2.4 million drivers using multivariable models, finding notable trends such as a J-shaped relationship between age and severity and significant variations in risk among different birth cohorts.
- Results indicated a decline in road crash severity initially, with stabilization post-2013, while also revealing that being female was associated with lower severity risk, particularly in terms of death.
Aim: The aim of the study is to quantify the main ways in which the sex of the driver/occupant of a passenger car affects the severity of road crashes.
Methods: All 171 230 cars occupied by the driver and one or more passengers included in the Spanish Register of Victims of Road Crashes from 2014 to 2020 were included. We designed two cohort studies: In the first one, we estimated the Incidence Rate Ratios (IRR) between the sex of the drivers and the occurrence of any death and/or severe injuries among their passengers.
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic may have adversely affected the early diagnosis of skin cancer.
Objective: To compare epidemiological, clinical and histopathological characteristics in patients undergoing cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) surgery before and after the beginning of the pandemic.
Material & Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional study including two case series: (1) patients operated on for SCC in the year after the first state of alarm in Spain (15 March 2020), and (2) patients with SCC operated on in the previous year.
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic may have adversely affected the early diagnosis of skin cancer.
Objective: To compare epidemiological, clinical and histopathological characteristics in patients undergoing cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) surgery before and after the beginning of the pandemic.
Material & Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional study including two case series: (1) patients operated on for SCC in the year after the first state of alarm in Spain (15 March 2020), and (2) patients with SCC operated on in the previous year.
Background: Our aim was to evaluate Spanish family doctors' knowledge about medications that increase the risk of traffic accidents involving older drivers, and to obtain data about the involvement of family doctors in accident prevention activities and the associations between these factors and their demographic and workplace characteristics.
Methods: A cross-sectional study of 1888 family doctors throughout Spain was carried out from 2016 to 2018. Participants completed a previously validated self-administered questionnaire that explored whether family doctors distinguished between medications associated with a high or low risk of involvement in a traffic accident, investigated the appropriateness of advice given to older patients, and physicians' involvement in preventive activities.