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Pinargote-Celorio H, Otero-Rodríguez S, González-de-la-Aleja P, Rodríguez-Díaz JC, Climent E, Chico-Sánchez P, Riera G, Llorens P, Aparicio M, Montiel I, Boix V, Moreno-Pérez Ó, Ramos-Rincón JM, Merino E. Mild SARS-CoV-2 infection in vulnerable patients: implementation of a clinical pathway for early treatment. Enferm Infecc Microbiol Clin (Engl Ed) 2024; 42:195-201. [PMID: 37003904 PMCID: PMC10063154 DOI: 10.1016/j.eimce.2023.03.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/15/2022] [Revised: 11/16/2022] [Accepted: 11/20/2022] [Indexed: 04/03/2023]
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INTRODUCTION The objective of this report is to describe the clinical pathway for early treatment of patients with acute SARS-CoV-2 infection and to evaluate the first results of its implementation. METHODS This is a descriptive and retrospective study of the implementation of a clinical pathway of treatment in outpatients (January 1 to June 30 2022). Clinical pathway: detection and referral systems from Primary Care, Emergency services, hospital specialities and an automated detection system; clinical evaluation and treatment administration in the COVID-19 day-hospital and subsequent clinical follow-up. Explanatory variables: demographics, comorbidity, vaccination status, referral pathways and treatment administration. OUTCOME VARIABLES hospitalization and death with 30 days, grade 2-3 toxicity related to treatment. RESULTS Treatment was administered to 262 patients (53,4% women, median age 60 years). The treatment indication criteria were immunosupression (68,3%), and the combination of age, vaccination status and comorbidity in the rest 47,3% of the patients s received remdesivir, 35,9% nirmatrelvir/ritonavir, 13,4% sotrovimab and 2,4% combined treatment with a median of 4 days after symptom onset. Hospital admission was required for 6,1% of the patients, 3,8% related to progression COVID-19. No patient died. Toxicity grade 2-3 toxicity was reported in 18,7%, 89,8% dysgeusia and metallic tasted related nirmatrelvir/ritonavir. Seven patients discontinued treatment due to toxicity. CONCLUSION The creation and implementation of a clinical pathway for non-hospitalized patients with SARS-CoV-2 infection is effective and it allows early accessibility and equity of currently available treatments.
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- Héctor Pinargote-Celorio
- Unidad de Enfermedades Infecciosas, Hospital General Universitario Dr. Balmis, Instituto Investigación Sanitaria y Biomédica de Alicante (ISABIAL), Alicante, Spain
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- Unidad de Enfermedades Infecciosas, Hospital General Universitario Dr. Balmis, Instituto Investigación Sanitaria y Biomédica de Alicante (ISABIAL), Alicante, Spain
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- Unidad de Enfermedades Infecciosas, Hospital General Universitario Dr. Balmis, Instituto Investigación Sanitaria y Biomédica de Alicante (ISABIAL), Alicante, Spain
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- Servicio de Microbiología, Hospital General Universitario Dr. Balmis, Instituto Investigación Sanitaria y Biomédica de Alicante (ISABIAL), Alicante, Spain; Departamento de Producción Vegetal y Microbiología, Universidad Miguel Hernández, Elche, Alicante, Spain
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- Servicio de Farmacia, Hospital General Universitario Dr. Balmis, Instituto Investigación Sanitaria y Biomédica de Alicante (ISABIAL), Alicante, Spain; Área de Farmacia y Tecnología Farmacéutica, Universidad Miguel Hernández, Elche, Alicante, Spain
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- Servicio de Medicina Preventiva, Hospital General Universitario Dr. Balmis, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria y Biomédica de Alicante (ISABIAL), Alicante, Spain
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- Servicio de Farmacia, Hospital General Universitario Dr. Balmis, Instituto Investigación Sanitaria y Biomédica de Alicante (ISABIAL), Alicante, Spain
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- Servicio de Urgencias, Unidad de Corta Estancia y Hospitalización a Domicilio, Hospital General Universitario Dr. Balmis, Instituto Investigación Biomédica y Sanitaria de Alicante (ISABIAL), Alicante, Spain; Departamento de Medicina Clínica, Universidad Miguel Hernández, Elche, Alicante, Spain
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- Farmacia de Atención Primaria, Hospital General Universitario Dr. Balmis, Alicante. Spain
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- Dirección de Atención Primaria, Hospital General Universitario Dr. Balmis, Instituto de Investigación Biomédica y Sanitaria de Alicante (ISABIAL), Alicante, Spain
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- Unidad de Enfermedades Infecciosas, Hospital General Universitario Dr. Balmis, Instituto Investigación Sanitaria y Biomédica de Alicante (ISABIAL), Alicante, Spain; Departamento de Medicina Clínica, Universidad Miguel Hernández, Elche, Alicante, Spain
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- Departamento de Medicina Clínica, Universidad Miguel Hernández, Elche, Alicante, Spain; Sección de Endocrinología, Hospital General Universitario Dr. Balmis, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria y Biomédica de Alicante (ISABIAL), Alicante, Spain
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- Departamento de Medicina Clínica, Universidad Miguel Hernández, Elche, Alicante, Spain; Servicio de Medicina Interna, Hospital General Universitario Dr. Balmis, Instituto Investigación Sanitaria y Biomédica de Alicante (ISABIAL), Alicante, Spain
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- Unidad de Enfermedades Infecciosas, Hospital General Universitario Dr. Balmis, Instituto Investigación Sanitaria y Biomédica de Alicante (ISABIAL), Alicante, Spain.
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Viudez‐Martínez A, Ramírez‐López A, López‐Nieto J, Climent‐Grana E, Riera G. Antiparkinsonian Medication Reconciliation as a Strategy to Improve Safety by Preventing Medication Errors. Mov Disord Clin Pract 2023; 10:1090-1098. [PMID: 37476316 PMCID: PMC10354616 DOI: 10.1002/mdc3.13789] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/06/2022] [Revised: 03/09/2023] [Accepted: 05/02/2023] [Indexed: 07/22/2023] Open
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Background About 70% of neurologists report that PD patients do not get their medication properly when hospitalized, and 33% are prescribed contraindicated drugs. Objectives To execute medication reconciliation (MedRec) focused on antiparkinsonian drugs to identify, characterize and, eventually, prevent medication errors, thus promoting therapeutic quality and safety in daily practice. Methods An interventional, single-center, 1 year, prospective study. All the patients who were hospitalized and had, at least, one active prescription containing an antiparkinsonian drug at hospital admission were included. MedRec was performed by following a three-phased check: inpatient electronic prescription validation after assessing the outpatient medication schedule, review of the latest clinical report emitted by the Neurology Department/General Practitioner, and pharmacist-driven interview of the patient and/or caregiver to confirm the information regarding medication gathered. Results A total of 171 admission episodes from 132 patients were registered (February 1, 2021, and January 31, 2022). Of 224 prescription lines involving antiparkinsonian drugs, 179 contained, at least, one medication error (59.8%). Commission errors (91.62%) were more frequent than omitted drugs (8.38%). The most common medication errors were related to timing (41.90%), frequency (21.23%), and dosing (19.55%). The implementation of this program prevented the erroneous administration of 2716 antiparkinsonian doses, 60% of the total number of doses prescribed. Interestingly, a significant relationship between the number of medication errors and having levodopa prescribed was evidenced (P < 0.05). A contraindicated drug was prescribed in almost one-third of the episodes (29.82%). Conclusions Clinical pharmacists' implementation of an antiparkinsonians reconciliation program sharply reduced medication errors and prescription of contraindicated drugs.
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- Adrián Viudez‐Martínez
- Pharmacy DepartmentInstituto Investigación Biomédica y Sanitaria de Alicante (ISABIAL) Hospital General Universitario Dr. BalmisAlicanteSpain
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- Pharmacy DepartmentInstituto Investigación Biomédica y Sanitaria de Alicante (ISABIAL) Hospital General Universitario Dr. BalmisAlicanteSpain
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- Pharmacy DepartmentInstituto Investigación Biomédica y Sanitaria de Alicante (ISABIAL) Hospital General Universitario Dr. BalmisAlicanteSpain
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- Pharmacy DepartmentInstituto Investigación Biomédica y Sanitaria de Alicante (ISABIAL) Hospital General Universitario Dr. BalmisAlicanteSpain
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- Pharmacy DepartmentInstituto Investigación Biomédica y Sanitaria de Alicante (ISABIAL) Hospital General Universitario Dr. BalmisAlicanteSpain
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Pinargote-Celorio H, Otero-Rodríguez S, González-de-la-Aleja P, Rodríguez-Díaz JC, Climent E, Chico-Sánchez P, Riera G, Llorens P, Aparicio M, Montiel I, Boix V, Moreno-Pérez Ó, Ramos-Rincón JM, Merino E. [Mild SARS-CoV-2 infection in vulnerable patients: implementation of a clinical pathway for early treatment]. Enferm Infecc Microbiol Clin 2022:S0213-005X(22)00282-8. [PMID: 36506459 PMCID: PMC9722674 DOI: 10.1016/j.eimc.2022.11.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/15/2022] [Accepted: 11/20/2022] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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INTRODUCTION The objective of this report is to describe the clinical pathway for early treatment of patients with acute SARS-CoV-2 infection and to evaluate the first results of its implementation. METHODS This is a descriptive and retrospective study of the implementation of a clinical pathway of treatment in outpatients (January 1 to June 30 2022). Clinical pathway: detection and referral systems from Primary Care, Emergency services, hospital specialities and an automated detection system; clinical evaluation and treatment administration in the COVID-19 day-hospital and subsequent clinical follow-up. Explanatory variables: demographics, comorbidity, vaccination status, referral pathways and treatment administration. OUTCOME VARIABLES hospitalization and death with 30 days, grade 2-3 toxicity related to treatment. RESULTS Treatment was administered to 262 patients (53,4% women, median age 60 years). The treatment indication criteria were immunosupression (68,3%), and the combination of age, vaccination status and comorbidity in the rest47,3% of the patients s received remdesivir, 35,9% nirmatrelvir/ritonavir, 13,4% sotrovimab and 2,4% combined treatment with a median of 4 days after symptom onset. Hospital admission was required for 6,1% of the patients, 3,8% related to progression COVID-19. No patient died. Toxicity grade 2-3 toxicity was reported in 18,7%, 89,8% dysgeusia and metallic tasted related nirmatrelvir/ritonavir. Seven patients discontinued treatment due to toxicity. CONCLUSION The creation and implementation of a clinical pathway for non-hospitalized patients with SARS-CoV-2 infection is effective and it allows early accessibility and equity of currently available treatments.
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- Héctor Pinargote-Celorio
- Unidad de Enfermedades Infecciosas, Hospital General Universitario Dr. Balmis - Instituto Investigación Sanitaria y Biomédica de Alicante (ISABIAL), Alicante, España
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- Unidad de Enfermedades Infecciosas, Hospital General Universitario Dr. Balmis - Instituto Investigación Sanitaria y Biomédica de Alicante (ISABIAL), Alicante, España
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- Unidad de Enfermedades Infecciosas, Hospital General Universitario Dr. Balmis - Instituto Investigación Sanitaria y Biomédica de Alicante (ISABIAL), Alicante, España
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- Servicio de Microbiología, Hospital General Universitario Dr. Balmis - Instituto Investigación Sanitaria y Biomédica de Alicante (ISABIAL), Alicante, España, Departamento de Producción Vegetal y Microbiología, Universidad Miguel Hernández, Elche, España
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- Servicio de Farmacia. Hospital General Universitario Dr. Balmis, Alicante - Balmis - Instituto Investigación Sanitaria y Biomédica de Alicante (ISABIAL), Alicante, España, Área de Farmacia y Tecnología Farmacéutica. Universidad Miguel Hernández, Elche, España
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- Servicio Medicina Preventiva. Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria y Biomédica de Alicante ISABIAL. Hospital General Universitario Dr. Balmis, Alicante, España
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- Servicio de Farmacia. Hospital General Universitario Dr. Balmis - Instituto Investigación, Sanitaria y Biomédica de Alicante (ISABIAL), Alicante, España
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- Servicio de Urgencias, Unidad de Corta Estancia y Hospitalización a Domicilio, Hospital General Universitario Dr. Balmis, Alicante. Instituto Investigación Biomédica y Sanitaria de Alicante (ISABIAL), Alicante, España, Departamento de Medicina Clínica, Universidad Miguel Hernández, Elche, Alicante, España
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- Farmacia de Atención Primaria. Hospital General Universitario Dr. Balmis, Alicante, España
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- Dirección Atención Primaria Hospital General Universitario Dr. Balmis, Alicante. Instituto. Investigación Biomédica y Sanitaria de Alicante (ISABIAL), Alicante, España
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- Unidad de Enfermedades Infecciosas, Hospital General Universitario Dr. Balmis - Instituto, Investigación Sanitaria y Biomédica de Alicante (ISABIAL), Alicante, España, Departamento de Medicina Clínica, Universidad Miguel Hernández, Elche, Alicante, España
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- Sección Endocrinología, Hospital General Universitario Dr. Balmis-Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria y Biomédica de Alicante (ISABIAL), Alicante, España, Departamento de Medicina Clínica, Universidad Miguel Hernández, Elche, Alicante, España
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- Servicio de Medicina Interna, Hospital General Universitario Dr. Balmis - Instituto Investigación Sanitaria y Biomédica de Alicante (ISABIAL), Alicante, España, Departamento de Medicina Clínica, Universidad Miguel Hernández, Elche, España
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- Unidad de Enfermedades Infecciosas, Hospital General Universitario Dr. Balmis - Instituto Investigación Sanitaria y Biomédica de Alicante (ISABIAL), Alicante, España
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Merchante N, Chico P, Márquez-Saavedra E, Riera G, Herrero R, González-de-la-Aleja P, Aller AI, Rodríguez JC, Rodríguez-Fernández M, Ramos JM, Trigo-Rodríguez M, Merino E. Impact of COVID19 pandemic on the incidence of health-care associated Clostridioides difficile infection. Anaerobe 2022; 75:102579. [PMID: 35500744 PMCID: PMC9054722 DOI: 10.1016/j.anaerobe.2022.102579] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/14/2022] [Revised: 04/20/2022] [Accepted: 04/27/2022] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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OBJECTIVE To investigate the impact of COVID19 pandemic on the incidence of health-care associated Clostridioides difficile infection (HA-CDI). METHODS Retrospective study conducted in the Hospital Universitario de Valme (HUV) and the Hospital General Universitario de Alicante (HGUA) in Spain between January 2019 and February 2021. The study period was divided into non-COVID19 period (2019 and months from 2020 to 2021 with ≤30 hospitalized COVID19 patients) and COVID19 period (months from 2020 to 2021 with >30 COVID19 patients). HA-CDI incidence rates (IR) were calculated as the number of new CDI cases per 10.000 occupied bed-days (OBD) and antimicrobial consumption by means of the defined daily dose (DDD) per 1000 OBD. RESULTS During the COVID19 period, HA-CDI IR in the HUV was 2.6 per 10.000 OBD, which was lower than what was observed during the non-COVID19 period (4.1 per 10.000 OBD; p = 0.1). In the HGUA, HA-CDI IR during COVID19 period was 3.9 per 10.000 OBD, which was not significantly different to the IR observed during the non-COVID19 period (3.7 per 10.000 OBD; p = 0.8). There was a slight increase in the total antibiotic consumption during COVID19 period in both hospitals, with significant increases of certain high-risk antibiotics as cephalosporins. CONCLSUSIONS HA-CDI incidence has not increased during the COVID19 pandemic in two tertiary centers in Spain, in spite of a slightly higher antibiotic consumption during the COVID19 period in both hospitals. These findings suggest that, in the presence of strict infection control measures, hospital antibiotic consumption might have a lower impact than expected on HA-CDI.
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- Nicolás Merchante
- Unidad de Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiología, Hospital Universitario de Valme, Instituto de Biomedicina de Sevilla (IBiS), Universidad de Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain,Corresponding author. Unidad de Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiología. Hospital Universitario de Valme. Avenida de Bellavista s/n, 41014. Sevilla, Spain
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- Servicio de Medicina Preventiva, Hospital General Universitario de Alicante, Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de Alicante (ISABIAL), Alicante, Spain
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- Servicio de Farmacia, Hospital General Universitario de Alicante, Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de Alicante (ISABIAL), Alicante, Spain
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- Unidad de Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiología, Hospital Universitario de Valme, Instituto de Biomedicina de Sevilla (IBiS), Universidad de Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain
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- Unidad de Enfermedades Infecciosas, Hospital General Universitario de Alicante, Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de Alicante (ISABIAL), Alicante, Spain
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- Unidad de Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiología, Hospital Universitario de Valme, Instituto de Biomedicina de Sevilla (IBiS), Universidad de Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain
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- Servicio Microbiología, Hospital General Universitario de Alicante, Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de Alicante (ISABIAL), Alicante, Spain
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- Unidad de Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiología, Hospital Universitario de Valme, Instituto de Biomedicina de Sevilla (IBiS), Universidad de Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain
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- Servicio de Medicina Interna, Hospital General Universitario de Alicante, Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de Alicante (ISABIAL), Alicante, Spain
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- Unidad de Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiología, Hospital Universitario de Valme, Instituto de Biomedicina de Sevilla (IBiS), Universidad de Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain
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- Unidad de Enfermedades Infecciosas, Hospital General Universitario de Alicante, Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de Alicante (ISABIAL), Alicante, Spain
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Clark P, Denova-Gutiérrez E, Zerbini C, Sanchez A, Messina O, Jaller JJ, Campusano C, Orces CH, Riera G, Johansson H, Kanis JA. FRAX-based intervention and assessment thresholds in seven Latin American countries. Osteoporos Int 2018; 29:707-715. [PMID: 29273826 DOI: 10.1007/s00198-017-4341-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/24/2017] [Accepted: 12/04/2017] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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UNLABELLED Age-specific intervention and assessment thresholds were developed for seven Latin American countries. The intervention threshold ranged from 1.2% (Ecuador) to 27.5% (Argentina) at the age of 50 and 90 years, respectively. In the Latin American countries, FRAX offers a substantial advance for the detection of subjects at high fracture risk. INTRODUCTION Intervention thresholds are proposed using the Fracture Risk Assessment (FRAX) tool. We recommended their use to calculate the ten-year probability of fragility fracture (FF) in both, men and women with or without the inclusion of bone mineral density (BMD). The purpose of this study is to compute FRAX-based intervention and BMD assessment thresholds for seven Latin American countries in men and women ≥ 40 years. METHODS The intervention threshold (IT) was set at a 10-year probability of a major osteoporotic fracture (MOF) equivalent to a woman with a prior FF and a body mass index (BMI) equal to 25.0 kg/m2 without BMD or other clinical risk factors. The lower assessment threshold was set at a 10-year probability of a MOF in women with BMI equal to 25.0 kg/m2, no previous fracture and no clinical risk factors. The upper assessment threshold was set at 1.2 times the IT. RESULTS For the seven LA countries, the age-specific IT varied from 1.5 to 27.5% in Argentina, 3.8 to 25.2% in Brazil, 1.6 up to 20.0% in Chile, 0.6 to 10.2% in Colombia, 0.9 up to 13.6% in Ecuador, 2.6 to 20.0% in Mexico, and 0.7 up to 22.0% in Venezuela at the age of 40 and 90 years, respectively. CONCLUSIONS In the LA countries, FRAX-based IT offers a substantial advance for the detection of men and women at high fracture risk, particularly in the elderly. The heterogeneity of IT between the LA countries indicates that country-specific FRAX models are appropriate rather than a global LA model.
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- P Clark
- Clinical Epidemiology Research Unit, Hospital Infantil de México Federico Gomez, Dr. Márquez #164, Col. Doctores, Mexico City, Mexico
- School of Medicine, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Mexico City, Mexico
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- Clinical Epidemiology Research Unit, Hospital Infantil de México Federico Gomez, Dr. Márquez #164, Col. Doctores, Mexico City, Mexico.
- School of Medicine, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Mexico City, Mexico.
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- Centro Paulista de Investigação Clinica, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Centro de Endocrinología, Rosario, Argentina
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- Servicio de Reumatología, Hospital Argerich, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Unidad de Postgrado en Reumatología, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Centro de Reumatología y Ortopedia, Barranquilla, Colombia
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- Clínica de la Universidad de los Andes, Santiago, Chile
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- Department of Medicine, Laredo Medical Center, Laredo, TX, USA
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- Unidad Metabolica, Universidad de Carabobo, Valencia, Venezuela
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- Institute for Health and Ageing, Catholic University of Australia, Melbourne, Australia
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- Institute for Health and Ageing, Catholic University of Australia, Melbourne, Australia
- Medical School, Sheffield, UK Centre for Metabolic Bone Diseases, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, England
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Merino E, Caro E, Ramos JR, Boix V, Gimeno A, Rodríguez JC, Riera G, Más P, Sanchéz-Paya J, Reus S, Torrús D, Portilla J. Impact of a stewardship program on bacteraemia in adult inpatients. Rev Esp Quimioter 2017; 30:257-263. [PMID: 28597623] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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OBJECTIVE Bloodstream infections (BSIs) are associated with considerable morbidity and mortality among inpatients. The aim of this study was to evaluate the impact of a stewardship program on clinical and antimicrobial therapy-related outcomes in patients with bacteraemia. METHODS Single-centre, before-and-after quasi-experimental study in adult inpatients. Over 1 January 2013 to 31 June 2013 all patients aged 18 years or older with a bacteraemia (interven-tion group, N=200) were compared to a historical cohort (1 Janu-ary 2012 to 31 December 2012) (control group, N=200). RESULTS Following blood culture results and adjusting for potential confounders, the stewardship program was associated with more changes to antibiotic regimens (adjusted odds ratio [ORa]: 4.6, 95% CI 2.9, 7.4), more adjustments to antimicrobial therapy (ORa: 2.4, 95% CI 1.5, 3.8), and better source control in the first five days (ORa 1.6, 95% CI: 1.0, 2.7). In the subgroup that initially received inappropriate empiric treatment (n=138), the intervention was associated with more antibiotic changes (OR: 3.9, 95% CI: 1.8, 8.5) and a better choice of definitive antimicrobial therapy (OR 2.3 95% CI: 1.2, 4.6). There were also more antibiotic changes in the subgroups with both Gram-negative (OR: 2.8, 95% CI: 1.6, 4.9; n=217) and Gram-positive (OR: 4.6, 95% CI: 1.8, 9.9; n=135) bacteraemia among those receiving the intervention, while the Gram-positive subgroup also received more appropriate definitive antimicrobial therapy (OR: 3.9, 95% CI: 1.8, 8.8). CONCLUSIONS The stewardship program improved treatment of patients with bacteraemia and appropriateness of therapy.
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- José Manuel Ramos, Department of Internal Medicine, Hospital General Universitario de Alicante e Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria y Biomédica de Alicante (ISABIAL-Fundación FISABIO), Calle Pintor Baeza, 12; 03010 Alicante. Spain.
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Candela MR, Gandia R, Riera G, Climent E, Fuster R, Blanquer E, Javaloyes A, Selva J. OHP-012 Outcomes of switching from intravenous to oral levetiracetam treatment in a neurosurgery unit. Eur J Hosp Pharm 2014. [DOI: 10.1136/ejhpharm-2013-000436.464] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022] Open
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Ghetti R, Helgesson J, Colonna N, Jakobsson B, Anzalone A, Bellini V, Carlèn L, Cavallaro S, Celano L, De Filippo E, D'Erasmo G, Di Santo D, Fiore EM, Fokin A, Geraci M, Giustolisi F, Kuznetsov A, Lanzanò G, Mahboub D, Marrone S, Mårtensson J, Palomba M, Pantaleo A, Paticchio V, Riera G, Sperduto ML, Sutera C, Tagliente G, Urrata M. Possibility to deduce the emission time sequence of neutrons and protons from the neutron-proton correlation function. Phys Rev Lett 2001; 87:102701. [PMID: 11531477 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.87.102701] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/26/2001] [Revised: 06/12/2001] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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Experimental information has been derived from the neutron-proton correlation function in order to deduce the time sequence of neutrons and protons emitted at 45 degrees in the E/A = 45 MeV 58Ni + 27Al reaction.
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- R Ghetti
- Department of Physics, Lund University, Box 118, SE-221 00 Lund, Sweden
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Riera G, Vilardell M. [Raynaud's phenomenon: do we always talk about the same thing?]. Med Clin (Barc) 1996; 106:95-6. [PMID: 8948944] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
Affiliation(s)
- G Riera
- Servicio de Medicina Interna, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
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Riera G, Vilardell M, Vaqué J, Alonso C. Fibromyalgia and abdominal pain. Surgery 1994; 116:117-8. [PMID: 8023260] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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Riera G, Vilardell M, Vaqué J, Fonollosa V, Bermejo B. Prevalence of Raynaud's phenomenon in a healthy Spanish population. J Rheumatol Suppl 1993; 20:66-9. [PMID: 8441168] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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To determine the prevalence of Raynaud's phenomenon (RP) in Spain, we studied a working population of 988 men and 479 women. The overall prevalence of RP was 3.7%, with a 3.2% rate for men and 4.7% for women. There was a statistically significant association between Raynaud's phenomenon and a personal or familial history of perniosis, acrocyanosis or migraine among women. The age at onset was significantly lower in women. RP was classified as primary in 89% of the cases and as secondary in 11%. Examination by capillaroscopy revealed no significant differences between primary Raynaud cases and controls.
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- G Riera
- Institut Català de la Salut, Girona, Spain
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Riera G, Bushinsky D, Emmanouel DS. First exchange neutrophilia: an index of peritonitis during chronic intermittent peritoneal dialysis. Clin Nephrol 1985; 24:5-8. [PMID: 4017299] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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During intermittent peritoneal dialysis (IPD) early diagnosis of peritonitis may be difficult, because of paucity in clinical signs and delays in bacteriologic studies. We examined prospectively leucocyte counts and their differential composition in initial ascites and dialysis effluent of patients on IPD and correlated these findings to the presence of subsequently bacteriologically proven clinical peritonitis. Total leucocyte counts from either ascites or first exchange effluent did not differentiate infected from noninfected patients. In contrast, first exchange effluent neutrophilia (greater than 43%) proved to be an early indicator of infection, being 100% sensitive and 94% specific for peritonitis. We conclude that in such patients peritoneal effluent neutrophilia should be considered an indication of possible infection.
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