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OBJECTIVE:To identify overuse (diagnostic, therapeutic and self-care practices that represent risks that outweigh the potential benefits) in patients with atrial fibrillation. METHOD:The study was based on qualitative research techniques. Using the "Metaplan" technique, we identified and ordered potentially inappropriate, ineffective and inefficient practices. By means of a consensus conference, we then established a number of "inadvisable practice" measures (relatively common practices that should be eliminated based on the scientific evidence or clinical experience). Professionals from the specialties of cardiology, haematology, neurology, internal medicine, family medicine and nursing participated in the consensus. RESULTS:We developed a catalogue of 19 "inadvisable practices" related to the diagnosis, treatment and care of anticoagulated patients that were inappropriate, had questionable effectiveness or were ineffective, as well as 13 beliefs or behaviours for anticoagulated patients that could result in injury or were useless or inefficient. CONCLUSION:The "inadvisable practices" approach helps identify practices that represent greater risks than benefits for patients. It seems appropriate to include algorithms in the clinical decision-making support systems that consider this information for the diagnosis, treatment and for home care. For this last case, recommendations have also been prepared that define specific contents for the healthcare education of these patients.
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Rev Clin Espjournal_title
Revista clinica espanolaauthors
Ortiz MM,Llamas P,Sanmartín M,Egido JA,Del Toro J,Egocheaga MI,Estévez MS,Navarro IM,Mira JJdoi
10.1016/j.rce.2017.02.014subject
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2017-05-01 00:00:00pages
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0014-2565issn
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217pub_type
杂志文章abstract：OBJECTIVE:Descriptive study of severe respiratory infections caused by Pseudomonas aeruginosa in patients with HIV infection. METHODS:Review of clinical records of HIV-positive patients admitted in a tertiary hospital from 1-1-1990 to 9-30-1995. The patients included in this study were those with P. aeruginosa recover...
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abstract：:Given the increasing interest in Lyme borreliosis in our community, and the lack of epidemiological studies in our country, we have considered convenient to analyze the presence of anti-Borrelia burgdorferi antibodies in a group of workmen who we have considered at high risk since they carry out their everyday work in...
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abstract：:Without a doubt blood pressure autoevaluation facilitates hypertension diagnosis, control and treatment. This also helps research, makes possible costs reduction and is an easy, safe, and useful method. Its use should be favored in the new model of patient-based clinical practice. ...
journal_title：Revista clinica espanola
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doi：10.1157/13072969
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abstract：BACKGROUND:Fractures are the clinical complication of osteoporosis. There are no previous studies that describe the prevalence of vertebral fractures (VF) in patients admitted into a hospital due to a hip fracture (HF). OBJECTIVE:To study the prevalence of vertebral fractures in elderly women in the moment of their ad...
journal_title：Revista clinica espanola
pub_type： 杂志文章,多中心研究
doi：10.1157/13109839
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abstract：OBJECTIVES:We evaluated the effect of an intervention on certain quality indicators employed for improving the treatment of hospital hyperglycemia. MATERIAL AND METHODS:A multicenter cross-sectional study was conducted on patients with hyperglycemia hospitalized in the internal medicine departments of 44 hospitals eva...
journal_title：Revista clinica espanola
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doi：10.1016/j.rce.2016.05.006
更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00
abstract：UNLABELLED:An inappropriate hospital use, defined as hospital utilization that could have been occurred at a lower attending level or in less time, increases costs, creates inefficient management and influences on attending quality. The objective of this work was to evaluate the appropriateness and inappropriateness of...
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abstract：:Patients admitted in an ICU after OH-CRA before and after the implementation of a MMICU were evaluated. During a period of 11 years, divided into a pre-MMICU period (1988-1993) and a post-MMICU period (1994-1998), 39 patients were admitted in the pre period and 64 patients in the post period. The basal characteristics...
journal_title：Revista clinica espanola
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doi：10.1157/13052582
更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00
abstract：:In most cases, the etiological diagnosis of pleural exudates does not require a pleural biopsy. However, when it is considered necessary, the biopsy should seldom be conducted using invasive methods such as thoracoscopy. Two paradigmatic examples are pleural tuberculosis and malignant effusions. In many centres, pleur...
journal_title：Revista clinica espanola
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.rce.2017.02.016
更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Thirty-eight hepatitis B virus (HBV) carriers, AgHBs and anti-HBe positive, with histologic diagnosis of chronic hepatitis have been periodically revised for three years. Three of them were homosexuals. Fourteen patients presented reactivation of viral replication characterized by the appearance in serum of HBV-DNA an...
journal_title：Revista clinica espanola
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更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Vascular disease is currently a major health problem, not only for its high prevalence but also for the considerable morbidity, mortality and disability that it entails. Medical internists play a central role in diagnosing and treating vascular disease and controlling the cardiovascular risk factors (CRFs) that cause ...
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pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.rce.2019.11.014
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journal_title：Revista clinica espanola
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
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更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The present design is a descriptive study in which people bitten by animals, rabies treatment used and the reactions to it are described. The frequency of adverse effects to the vaccine and to the serum are pointed out. The forms of clinical presentation and the clinical symptoms of the reactions observed in the Ciego...
journal_title：Revista clinica espanola
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1157/13058826
更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00
abstract：OBJECTIVE:To know the characteristics of nocardiosis in HIV infected patients. PATIENTS AND METHODS:Retrospective analysis of HIV infected patients with a concomitant Nocardia spp. infection in nine Andalusian hospitals. RESULTS:Eighteen cases of nocardiosis were studied. Seventeen patients were males and the mean ag...
journal_title：Revista clinica espanola
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/s0014-2565(02)71084-9
更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00
abstract：:In this clinical observation, we make a small summary of the current state of pharmacological treatment of obesity. The interest in the use of drugs in the treatment of obesity has grown in recent years, upon our knowledge of the biological basis of obesity having increased, and also because non-pharmacological treatm...
journal_title：Revista clinica espanola
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1157/13074165
更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Revista clinica espanola
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更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00
abstract：BACKGROUND:In recent years, there has been an increase of drugs poisoning cases seen in the Emergency Department. This study has aimed to evaluate the characteristics of these cases in the Ramón and Cajal Hospital in Madrid. MATERIALS AND METHODS:A descriptive analysis about the drug poisonings diagnosed in 2004 was p...
journal_title：Revista clinica espanola
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1157/13127603
更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Although the number of elderly needing health care is increasing in Spain, geriatric patients do not receive enough attention or support when compared to that given in other countries. When the elderly get sick they present peculiar and special problems which should be attended following their needs. Because in hospit...
journal_title：Revista clinica espanola
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更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Revista clinica espanola
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更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00
abstract：OBJECTIVES:To perform a situation analysis of the care provided by internal medicine units (IMUs) in Spain and to develop, based on this analysis, proposals for improving the quality of care in these units. MATERIAL AND METHODS:A descriptive, cross-sectional study of the IMUs of general acute care hospitals of the Spa...
journal_title：Revista clinica espanola
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.rce.2016.01.002
更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Central nervous system compromise is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in SLE. The clinical picture of cerebral cryptococcosis is non-specific and can be mistaken for lupic activity. A retrospective study was undertaken with 10 patients with SLE and cryptococcal meningitis compiled in a 23-year period. The most...
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更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:In the present work we study the modifications in hydrosaline metabolism which occurred in two groups of healthy male individuals, one consisting of 15 young men (mean age of 20 years) and the other of 30 elderly subjects (mean age of 75 years) when the thirst test was performed for 48 hours. After performing the thir...
journal_title：Revista clinica espanola
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更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00
abstract：:We discuss 19 cases of infection due to Cryptococcus neoformans diagnosed in 438 AIDS patients admitted to our center (4%). Fourteen of them showed meningitis confirmed by culture of C. neoformans in CSF. Clinical features were rather unspecific and disorders in CSF parameters were non striking. The diagnostic techniq...
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abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the bacterial etiology of bacteremic episodes recorded at our hospital during 1995 and their antimicrobial susceptibility patterns. METHODS:The microbiological records of all bacteremic episodes detected at our hospital from January to December 1995 were analysed. The susceptibility patterns of ...
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更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The socio-economic cost of human brucellosis is analyzed. One hundred and seven patients are included in this study, 75 males (70.09%) and 32 females (29.91), diagnosed of brucellosis in the Internal Medicine Department of the Regional Hospital "Carlos Haya" in Málaga from the 1st of October 1984 to the 31st of Decemb...
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更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00
abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES:AL amyloidosis is a rare condition whose management is undergoing changes due to recent advances in diagnosis and treatment. We describe a contemporary series of patients with AL amyloidosis to analyze the features that enable early diagnosis and optimal management. PATIENTS AND METHODS:We re...
journal_title：Revista clinica espanola
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.rce.2014.08.013
更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00
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更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00
abstract：OBJECTIVE:To study the prevalence of hepatitis delta and hepatitis C viruses (HDV and HCV) in patients infected with hepatitis B virus (HBV) with and without risk behaviors for the infection by these viruses and by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). MATERIALS AND METHODS:Clinical and serological study (January 19...
journal_title：Revista clinica espanola
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更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00
abstract：OBJECTIVE:Several studies have reported that a higher degree of hemoconcentration in patients admitted for the treatment of acute heart failure (HF) constitutes a favorable prognostic factor in the year following the index episode. The objective of this study was to evaluate whether the highest degree of hemoconcentrat...
journal_title：Revista clinica espanola
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.rce.2018.07.003
更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：BACKGROUND:Despite a steady decrease in its incidence, pneumonia caused by Pneumocystis carinii (PCP) are still diagnosed, and they occur frequently in patients unaware of being infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Since it is a disease with a high mortality risk, its early diagnosis and therapy would ...
journal_title：Revista clinica espanola
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/s0014-2565(02)71100-4
更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00
abstract：OBJECTIVES:To analyze the effect of a global approach on patients with high cardiovascular risk for the integral control of cardiovascular risk factors. PATIENTS AND METHODS:Multicentric prospective study of patients with high vascular risk, followed-up for one year in internal medicine consultations. We measured the ...
journal_title：Revista clinica espanola
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1157/13100222
更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00
