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Lanzas M, Pou N, Bota G, Pla M, Villero D, Brotons L, Sainz de la Maza P, Bach J, Pont S, Anton M, Herrando S, Hermoso V. Detecting management gaps for biodiversity conservation: An integrated assessment. J Environ Manage 2024; 354:120247. [PMID: 38367497 DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2024.120247] [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: 10/18/2023] [Revised: 01/20/2024] [Accepted: 01/27/2024] [Indexed: 02/19/2024]
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The latest report on the state of nature in Europe (2013-2018) shows that biodiversity is declining at an alarming rate, with most protected species and habitats in poor condition. Despite an increasing volume of collected biodiversity information, urgent action is needed to integrate biodiversity data and knowledge to improve conservation efforts. We conducted a study in Catalonia (NE Spain), where we collected management measures implemented between 2013 and 2018, including allocation, budget, pressures aimed, and habitats/species potentially benefiting. We integrated information on pressures and habitats/species with the measures to identify non-spatial management gaps. Then, we integrated the spatially explicit information to determine the spatial management gap, identifying geographical areas where species/habitats are under pressure without registered measures. We demonstrated the importance of integrating existing information. Our findings revealed that resources were often not distributed adequately across species/habitats, with biases towards certain taxa being a common issue. The non-spatial management gap analysis identified taxonomic groups, especially plants and mollusks with the wider management gaps. We also identified threatened areas, especially in the northeast of the region with the larger spatial management gaps. These results could guide priority objectives to optimize conservation efforts. Integrating different information sources provided a broader view of the challenges that conservation science is facing nowadays. Our study offers a path toward bending the curve of biodiversity loss by providing an integrative framework that could optimize the use of the available information and help narrow the knowing-doing gap. In the context of the EU, this example demonstrates how information can be used to promote some environmental policy instruments, such as the Prioritized Action Frameworks (PAFs). Additionally, our findings highlight the importance of supporting decision-making with systematic assessments to identify deficiencies in the conservation process, reduce the loss of critical ecosystems and species, and avoid biases among taxa.
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- Mónica Lanzas
- Centre de Ciència i Tecnologia Forestal de Catalunya, Solsona, Spain.
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- Centre de Ciència i Tecnologia Forestal de Catalunya, Solsona, Spain
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- Centre de Ciència i Tecnologia Forestal de Catalunya, Solsona, Spain
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- Centre de Ciència i Tecnologia Forestal de Catalunya, Solsona, Spain; CREAF, Cerdanyola del Vallés, Spain
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- Centre de Ciència i Tecnologia Forestal de Catalunya, Solsona, Spain; CREAF, Cerdanyola del Vallés, Spain
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- Centre de Ciència i Tecnologia Forestal de Catalunya, Solsona, Spain; CREAF, Cerdanyola del Vallés, Spain; CSIC, Cerdanyola del Vallés, Spain
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- Generalitat de Catalunya, Direcció General de Polítiques Ambientals i Medi Natural, Barcelona, Spain
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- Generalitat de Catalunya, Direcció General de Polítiques Ambientals i Medi Natural, Barcelona, Spain
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- Generalitat de Catalunya, Direcció General de Polítiques Ambientals i Medi Natural, Barcelona, Spain
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- Catalan Ornithological Institute, Natural History Museum of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Catalan Ornithological Institute, Natural History Museum of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Centre de Ciència i Tecnologia Forestal de Catalunya, Solsona, Spain; Department of Plant Biology and Ecology, University of Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain; Australian Rivers Institute, Griffith University, Queensland, Australia
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Muñoz-Rojas G, García-Lorenzo B, Esteve D, Trias S, Caellas D, Sanz M, Mellado R, Peix T, Sampietro-Colom L, Pou N, Martínez-Pallí G, Ferrando C. Implementing a Rapid Response System in a tertiary-care hospital. A cost-effectiveness study. J Clin Monit Comput 2022; 36:1263-1269. [PMID: 35460504 DOI: 10.1007/s10877-022-00859-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/24/2022] [Accepted: 03/29/2022] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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PURPOSE The occurrence of adverse events (AE) in hospitalized patients substancially increases the risk of disability or death, having a major negative clinical and economic impact on public health. For early identification of patients at risk and to establish preventive measures, different healthcare systems have implemented rapid response systems (RRS). The aim of this study was to carry out a cost-effectiveness analysis of implementing a RRS in a tertiary-care hospital. METHODS We included all the patients admitted to Hospital Clínic de Barcelona from 1 to 2016 to 31 December 2016. The cost-effectiveness analysis was summarized as the incremental cost-effectiveness ratio (incremental cost divided by the incremental effectiveness of the two alternatives, RRS versus non-RRS). The effectiveness of the RRS, defined as improvements in health outcomes (AE, cardiopulmonary arrest and mortality), was obtained from the literature and applied to the included patient cohort. A budget impact analysis on the implementation of the RRS from a hospital perspective was performed over a 5-year time horizon. RESULTS 42,409 patients were included, and 448 (1.05%) had severe AE requiring ICU admission. The cost-effectiveness analysis showed an incremental cost (savings) of EUR - 1,471,101 of RRS versus the non-RRS. The budgetary impact showed a cost reduction of EUR 896,762.00 in the first year and EUR 1,588,579.00 from the second to the fifth year. CONCLUSIONS The present analysis shows the RRS as a dominant, less costly and more effective structure compared to the non-RRS.
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- G Muñoz-Rojas
- Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Institut D'investigació August Pi i Sunyer, C/ Villarroel 170, 08036, Barcelona, Spain
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- Assessment of Innovations and New Technologies Unit, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
- Kronikgune Institute for Health Services Research, Barakaldo, Basque Country, Spain
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- Respiratory Intensive Care Unit, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Surgical Area Management, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Information Systems Management, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Infrastructure Management, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Institut D'investigació August Pi i Sunyer, C/ Villarroel 170, 08036, Barcelona, Spain
- CIBER (Center of Biomedical Research in Respiratory Diseases), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
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- Surgical Area Management, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Assessment of Innovations and New Technologies Unit, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Surgical Area Management, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Institut D'investigació August Pi i Sunyer, C/ Villarroel 170, 08036, Barcelona, Spain
- CIBER (Center of Biomedical Research in Respiratory Diseases), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Institut D'investigació August Pi i Sunyer, C/ Villarroel 170, 08036, Barcelona, Spain.
- CIBER (Center of Biomedical Research in Respiratory Diseases), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain.
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Sanz‐Pérez A, Sardà‐Palomera F, Bota G, Sollmann R, Pou N, Giralt D. The potential of fallow management to promote steppe bird conservation within the next EU Common Agricultural Policy reform. J Appl Ecol 2021. [DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.13902] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Ana Sanz‐Pérez
- Landscape Dynamics and Biodiversity Program Conservation Biology Group (GBIC) Forest Science and Technology Centre of Catalonia (CTFC) Solsona Spain
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- Landscape Dynamics and Biodiversity Program Conservation Biology Group (GBIC) Forest Science and Technology Centre of Catalonia (CTFC) Solsona Spain
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- Landscape Dynamics and Biodiversity Program Conservation Biology Group (GBIC) Forest Science and Technology Centre of Catalonia (CTFC) Solsona Spain
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- Department of Wildlife, Fish, and Conservation Biology University of California Davis CA USA
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- Landscape Dynamics and Biodiversity Program Conservation Biology Group (GBIC) Forest Science and Technology Centre of Catalonia (CTFC) Solsona Spain
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- Landscape Dynamics and Biodiversity Program Conservation Biology Group (GBIC) Forest Science and Technology Centre of Catalonia (CTFC) Solsona Spain
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Pou N, Peix T, Trias S, Trilla A, Varela P, Martínez G, Castells A. [Management of elective surgical activity in a tertiary hospital during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic]. J Healthc Qual Res 2021; 36:136-141. [PMID: 33727004 PMCID: PMC7874944 DOI: 10.1016/j.jhqr.2021.01.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [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: 08/20/2020] [Revised: 12/15/2020] [Accepted: 01/20/2021] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Introducción Durante la pandemia por SARS-CoV-2 la actividad quirúrgica electiva se redujo a su mínima expresión. A medida que disminuyeron tanto el número de casos, como las necesidades de hospitalización para esta patología creímos oportuno proceder a recuperar progresivamente la actividad quirúrgica programada. El presente trabajo describe como, aún con el estado de alarma vigente, pudimos prácticamente normalizar dicha actividad en pocas semanas. Metodología Dos semanas antes de la intervención quirúrgica, se contactó telefónicamente con los pacientes incluidos en las listas de espera. Tras comprobar su estado de salud y manifestar su deseo de ser intervenidos quirúrgicamente se les proporcionaron recomendaciones para disminuir el riesgo de infección por coronavirus. Asimismo, se estableció un circuito exclusivo para llevar a cabo, 48 horas antes de la intervención, la detección de SARS-CoV-2 mediante reacción en cadena de la polimerasa (PCR) de exudado nasofaríngeo. Los resultados fueron valorados por cada servicio quirúrgico y el de anestesiología. Además, los profesionales del Área Quirúrgica asintomáticos podían someterse a un cribado semanal para la detección de coronavirus, según las recomendaciones de Salud Laboral. Resultados En plena pandemia, la actividad quirúrgica electiva se redujo un 85%. A partir de la semana del 13 de abril, se fueron recuperando los quirófanos disponibles, lo que permitió recobrar la práctica total de la actividad quirúrgica la semana del 25 de mayo. Conclusiones La creación de circuitos y procedimientos para agilizar la actividad quirúrgica, aún en plena vigencia del estado de alarma, nos ha permitido, en pocas semanas, recuperar la práctica total de la misma.
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- N Pou
- Dirección del Área Quirúrgica, Hospital Clínico de Barcelona, Barcelona, España.
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- Dirección del Área Quirúrgica, Hospital Clínico de Barcelona, Barcelona, España
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- Dirección del Área Quirúrgica, Hospital Clínico de Barcelona, Barcelona, España
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- Servició de Medicina Preventiva, Hospital Clínico de Barcelona, Barcelona, España
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- Dirección para las Personas, Hospital Clínico de Barcelona, Barcelona, España
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- Dirección de Enfermería, Hospital Clínico de Barcelona, Barcelona, España
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- Dirección Médica, Hospital Clínico de Barcelona, Barcelona, España
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Martín MA, Ollé G, Pellejero JA, Torruella R, Yuste M, Pou N. [Comparison of the post-surgical analgesic effectiveness of tibial (at internal malleolus level) and common peroneal nerve block with infiltration of the surgical wound in Outpatient Surgery of the hallux valgus]. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2012; 59:197-203. [PMID: 22551481 DOI: 10.1016/j.redar.2012.02.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/31/2011] [Accepted: 02/10/2012] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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INTRODUCTION To compare the post-operative analgesic effectiveness of blocking the posterior tibial and the common peroneal nerves against that of wound infiltration using local anaesthesia, in ambulatory surgery of hallux valgus. MATERIAL AND METHODS A randomised clinical study was conducted on ambulatory patients subjected to Hallux valgus surgery, assigned into two groups: BNP: peripheral nerve blockage: posterior tibial and the common peroneal with 80mg of lidocaine, 100mg of mepivacaine and 25mg of levobupivacaine. INF: surgical wound infiltration with 50mg of levobupivacaine. The following aspects were evaluated during the first 24h after surgery: pain level using a visual analogue scale (VAS), the need to use rescue analgesia, and the incidence of secondary effects and readmissions due to pain. RESULTS A total of 111 Patients were included (55 BNP, 56 INF), 93 per cent were women and the average age was 59 (SD10) years. The average VAS score in the first 24h was 2.9 (SD1.7) for the BNP group and 2.7 (SD1.6) for the INF group (P=.62). Less than half (42%) of patients needed rescue anaesthetic with tramadol, with no significant differences between the groups (P=.28). A 33 per cent had secondary postoperative effects were observed in 33% of cases, with a significant difference between INF and BNP (P=.01). One patient from INF group, had to be admitted for pain. CONCLUSIONS The peripheral nerve block and wound infiltration are valid techniques for controlling pain at home after ambulatory surgery of hallux valgus, therefore both methods appear to be safe in an outpatient setting.
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- M A Martín
- Servicio de Anestesiología y Reanimación, Hospital de Mataró, Mataró, Barcelona, España
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Blanco M, Coello J, Iturriaga H, Maspoch S, Pou N. Influence of the procedure used to prepare the calibration sample set on the performance of near infrared spectroscopy in quantitative pharmaceutical analyses. Analyst 2001; 126:1129-34. [PMID: 11478648 DOI: 10.1039/b102090k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Calibrating near infrared diffuse reflectance spectroscopy (NIRS) methods usually involves preparing a set of samples with a view to expanding the analyte concentration range spanned by production samples. In this work, the performances of the two procedures most frequently used for this purpose in near infrared pharmaceutical analysis, viz., synthetic samples obtained by weighing of the pure constituents of the pharmaceutical and doped samples made by under- or overdosing previously powdered production samples, were compared. Both procedures were found to provide similar results in the quantification of the active compound in the pharmaceutical, which was determined with a relative standard error of prediction (RSEP) of < 1.6%. However, the two types of sample preparation provide different spectra, which precludes the accurate quantification of synthetic samples from calibrations obtained with doped samples and vice versa. None of the mathematical pre-treatments tested with a view to reducing this different scattering (viz., second derivative, standard normal variate and orthogonal signal correction) could effectively solve this problem. This hinders accurate validation of the linearity of the procedure and makes it advisable to use doped samples which are markedly less different to production samples.
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- M Blanco
- Departament de Química, Unitat de Química Analítica, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Spain.
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Blanco M, Coello J, Iturriaga H, Maspoch S, Pou N. Development and validation of a near infrared method for the analytical control of a pharmaceutical preparation in three steps of the manufacturing process. Fresenius J Anal Chem 2000; 368:534-9. [PMID: 11227539 DOI: 10.1007/s002160000506] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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A near infrared diffuse reflectance spectroscopy (NIRS) procedure for the quantitative control analysis of the active compound (otilonium bromide) in a pharmaceutical preparation in three steps of the production process (blended product, cores and coated tablets) and a methodology for its validation are proposed. The analytical procedure is composed by two consecutive steps. First, the sample is identified by comparing its spectrum with a second derivative spectral library. If the sample is positively identified, the active compound is quantified by using a previously established partial least squares (PLS) calibration model. The procedure was validated by studying repeatability, intermediate precision, accuracy and linearity. To this end, an adaptation of ICH (International Conference on Harmonisation) validation methodology to an NIR multivariate calibration procedure is proposed. The relative standard error of prediction (RSEP) was < or = 1% and the suitability of the procedure for control analysis was confirmed by the results obtained analysing new production samples produced over a three-month period.
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- M Blanco
- Departament de Química, Unitat de Química Analítica, Facultat de Ciències, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Spain.
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Valero R, García-Valdecasas JC, Tabet J, Rull R, Beltrán J, Cifuentes A, Taurà P, González X, García F, Pou N, Manyalich M, Visa J. Blood flow and oxygen extraction during normothermic recirculation and total body cooling predict viability of liver from non-heart-beating pig donors. Transplant Proc 1997; 29:3469-70. [PMID: 9414795 DOI: 10.1016/s0041-1345(97)00982-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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- R Valero
- Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Spain
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