Calcifediol Treatment and Hospital Mortality Due to COVID-19: A Cohort Study.

Context: Calcifediol has been proposed as a potential treatment for COVID-19 patients.

Objective: To compare the administration or not of oral calcifediol on mortality risk of patients hospitalized because of COVID-19.

Design: Retrospective, multicenter, open, non-randomized cohort study.

[Prognostic factors on mortality in patients admitted to hospital with heart failure].

Background: Heart failure (HF) is the leading cause of hospitalization for aging populations in Western countries, and is showing an increasing mortality. The aim of this study was to assess the probable long-term mortality risk factors for patients admitted because of HF.

Methods: Retrospective study of a cohort of 202 patients consecutively hospitalized because of HF and followed up for a maximum period of 5 years.

[Mortality and medical care of patients hospitalized during weekends].

Background And Objectives: It has been shown that patients admitted to hospital during the weekends tend to have less favourable outcomes, including higher mortality rates, compared with those admitted during weekdays. The main objective of this study is to evaluate the impact of on the health outcomes of patients admitted during the weekend.

Material And Methods: A retrospective observational study was conducted on all patients admitted to Montilla Hospital (Córdoba).

Impact of a do-not-do intervention on 12 laboratory measurements.

Objectives: In recent years, various scientific societies and healthcare organisations have created recommendations aimed at decreasing the use of healthcare interventions that have shown no efficacy or effectiveness. The aim of this study was to assess the impact of an intervention on 12 do-not-do recommendations regarding the laboratory in 7 hospital centres.

Methods: Before-after study conducted in 7 hospital centres of Cordoba and Jaen during 2015 and 2016.

[Clinical processes in a high resolution clinic of specialist outpatient clinics].

Objectives: The high resolution clinic (HRC) is an outpatient care process by which treatment and diagnosis are established, recorded, and completed in a single day. The aim of this study was to assess the extent to which patients with medical conditions may benefit from a single consultation system.

Material And Methods: A descriptive study of 795 first visit events, randomly selected as high-resolution consultations in cardiology, gastroenterology, internal medicine, and chest diseases.

Efficacy of a high-resolution consultation system in gastroenterology at an Andalusian hospital center.

Background: By high resolution consultation (HRC) we mean an ambulatory process of assistance fulfilled in a single day, by which treatment and diagnosis are established and recorded.

Objective: To assess to which extent patients with digestive conditions may benefit from a single consultation system.

Material: A descriptive study of 179 first visit events, randomly selected as high-resolution consultations in gastroenterology.

The predictive capacity of the Glasgow-Blatchford score for the risk stratification of upper gastrointestinal bleeding in an emergency department.

Objectives: To assess the ability of the Glasgow Blatchford Score (GBS) system to identify the need for urgent upper gastrointestinal endoscopy (UGIE) in patients with upper gastrointestinal bleeding (UGIB).

Methods: An observational, retrospective study was carried out in all patients attended at the ER for suspected UGIB in one year. Patients were split into two categories -high-risk (>2) and low-risk ( < or = 2)- by means of the GBS system.

[Quality of hospital discharge reports in terms of current legislation and expert recommendations].

Objective: To determine the quality of hospital discharge reports (HDRs) taking into account current legislation and the conclusions of the consensus on hospital discharge reports in medical specialities in 11 community hospitals in Andalusia (Spain).

Material And Methods: A cross-sectional study of 1,708 HDRs was carried out. We determined the presence or absence of the various items required by current legislation and by the recommendations of the above-mentioned consensus.

[Do women demand to be assisted at medical clinics more often than men?].

Background: Different features of the users of the Spanish Public Health System have been previously assessed, specially in General Practice and Hospital Emergency Departments. Nevertheless, the epidemiological characteristics of those patients who attend to specialised clinics have not been so thoroughly evaluated.

Patients And Methods: The referee of the demand, the place of residence, the age and the sex of patients were all analysed for the ,first visits, at the Medical Department clinics (Internal Medicine, Cardiology, Gastroenterology, Pneumology) in our hospital, during 2002.

[Impact of automatized systems in a high resolution model of outpatients clinics].

Objective: To analyse the impact of computerised systems in Radiology and Laboratory Departments on the reduction in the waiting time of the patients attending to an Internal Medicine outpatient consultation organised in a high resolution model.

Methods: For one year, we studied the delay in diagnostic explorations (laboratory test, simple radiology, ultrasonic diagnostics and brain scanner) that were all applied for and performed in a single day. We compared the traditional organization (n = 312 explorations), in which the results were handed in by hospital auxiliary staff, to a computerised method (n = 457 explorations), which was implemented via our intranet.

[Characteristics of patients with multiple disease hospitalized in Internal Medicine services].

Introduction: Know what proportion of patients hospitalized in the Internal Medicine services have multiple diseases.

Material And Methods: We analyzed 400 clinical histories of a random sample of patients admitted to 24 Internal Medicine services of Andalusia. We assessed the diagnostic categories present that make it possible to classify patients as having multiple diseases.

[The practice of Internal Medicine in Andalusia follows the evidence-based medicine basic principles].

Basis: To know the proportion of medical interventions carried out in the Services of Internal Medicine of the public hospitals of Andalusia based on randomized clinical trials.

Patients And Methods: We have analyzed the primary treatments prescribed in a random sample of 326 patients admitted to these Internal Medicine services during 1998.

Results: One hundred and forty-three of the 326 treatments analyzed (43.

Duodenal compression caused by superior mesenteric artery: study of 10 patients.

Background: the compression of the third portion of the duodenum by the superior mesenteric artery (aorto-mesenteric clamp) is a rare cause of abdominal pain. Its clinical appearance may range between an asymptomatic and accidental radiological finding and an acute duodenal ileus (superior mesenteric artery syndrome), which requires urgent surgical intervention.

Methods: we revised all of the reports of upper gastrointestinal tract contrast-medium study (which included the duodenum) made in our hospital between May 1999 and April 2002.