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Filter by:The 11th March 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the novel coronavirus Covid-19 as a pandemic. Urgent reorganization was required to give answers to the needs of this new illness. Since mid March, the number of patients admitted every day grew exponentially, and despite strengthening the Home Hospitalization service, resources were insufficient to care for such a number of people at home. The HH was called to transform a hotel into a medicalized healthcare space. Current health policy emphasizes on patient experience, as one of the key components of quality of care. Analyzing patients experience will provide knowledge about their authentic concerns or what they identify as real needs, how they perceive the care received and will allow finding out if it was a good alternative. Patients must be involved in decision-making about their heath situation and treatment in order to provide an integrated healthcare. Aims: To assess the patient experience during hospital admission in a Medicalized Hotel for COVID-19, from 8th March to 25th May, and variables that may influence these experiences. Study type: Observational and descriptive study with a cross-sectional design. The study population consisted of patients admitted in Medicalized Hotel who met inclusion criteria. Sample size: 517 patients. Main variable: Patient experience (collected by the Picker Patient Experience questionnaire, PPE-15, translated to Catalan and Spanish), that content four open questions analyzed in a qualitative way. Other variables: Socio-demographic and review clinical records.
The COVID-19 pandemic becomes a global challenge. This study aims to analyze the possible changes in out-patient visits during the time of COVID-19 pandemic between January and June, 2020, compared with the same period in 2019, and the impact of the related healthy policies.
This RCT aims to investigate the real surgical effects of MBP prior to the gynecological laparoscopic surgeries. Those effects include lowest pneumoperitoneum pressure, lowest Trendelenburg inclination angle, the ease of the surgical view and the preferences of the patients with objective measures.
To evaluate the safety and ocular efficacy of Dextenza in combination with an intracameral antibiotic and NSAID in controlling post-operative ocular pain and inflammation compared to standard of care topical therapy in patients undergoing bilateral cataract surgery.
The objective of this study is to identify and weight attributes of topic and systemic pain treatment options relevant from the patients' perspective with peripheral neuropathic pain. The study will use a discrete choice experimental design to reach its objective.
Background: Oral epithelial dysplasia (OED) is a condition with an increased risk of oral cancer. Due to the current changes in the factors associated with these diseases (because of human papillomavirus), it is expected that those who have no history of smoking or alcohol, young (<50 years old), and white male would be commonly affected. Those individuals require a higher need for information, preferred a more active role in decision-making, and have a longer lifespan than older individuals. There remain no detailed studies of whether the informational needs delivered to patients with OED met their needs or indeed what information such patient may wish. A few tools are available to evaluate the IN of patients with head and neck disorders. However, the items of these instruments were dedicated to a particular disease (e.g. cancer) and hence are not applicable to be used for OED. Project aims: To evaluate the psychometric properties of the Oral Epithelial Dysplasia Informational Needs Questionnaire (ODIN-Q), developed and revised in the preliminary work for the proposed study, in a cohort of patients with OED. Timescale: 19 months. Clinical significance: This questionnaire can be useful in clinical practice. It could help to meet the patient's information needs and plan educational interventions for those showing unmet needs.
The aim of the present study is to determine the monetary value of endodontic treatment (primary root canal treatment) compared to the alternative treatment options, such as extraction with or without subsequent insertion of a dental implant or placement of a fixed dental prosthesis.
The goals of this study are to determine if 1) placement times of pit and fissure sealants using the DryShield system differ from those when using the cotton roll isolation technique; and 2) there is a significant difference in patient preference between Dryshield and the cotton roll technique.
Partially defective dental restorations might either be treated by complete replacement or by repair of the affected region. Repair restorations are a scientifically proven approach to manage failed restorations, but probably unknown to most patients. Results from this study and findings on the predictors of patients' therapy decisions might improve future patient information documents.
A pharmacist follow-up procedure is under development. Patients with coronary heart disease (CHD) is being followed up by a pharmacist for one year with three meetings; at discharge from hospital, after three months and after one year. The evaluation is basically based on quantitative measures as achievement of therapeutic goals, number of drug related problems detected, hospitalisations etc. However, the patients' own experience with the follow-up procedure cannot be evaluated using these measures. Thus, a qualitative approach is needed. In this study, a total of four patients participating in the follow-up will be included and interviewed. A semistructured interview guide will be used. Interviews will be taped, transcribed and analyzed with the intention to explore how patients experience the follow-up from the pharmacist. A thoruough content analysis will be performed. Patients included must have met the pharmacist at least twice. The pharmacist in charge of the follow-up will recruit patients and hand out study information. Patients will reply to the principal investigator of the study and thus kept anonymous for the pharmacist in charge of the follow-up. No pressure will be put on the patients to join, but it will be emphasized that it will help evaluating the procedure.