Biomedical subjects

Antonio Heras Tebar

Publications and source records attributed to Antonio Heras Tebar.

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PubMed2006

[Monitoring a home care cohort].

OBJECTIVES: To evaluate home care by primary care teams for people over 65 years old with chronic conditions, in order to identify improvement opportunities. To identify patient and care variables associated with cognitive and functional impairment, nursing home admission, attendance at casualty units, hospital admission and death. DESIGN: Analytic study of the follow-up of a cohort for 3 years. SETTING: Primary health care teams in Catalonia, Spain. PATIENTS: One thousand three hundred patients over 65 with chronic pathologies and cared for by home care programmes in Catalonia. MAIN MEASUREMENTS: The following will be recorded annually: health status (Charlson, Barthel, Pfeiffer, Braden, and Gijón), data on the carer (Zarit), care received (social and health), self-perception of health (SF-12), Casualty attendance, short-term admissions and the final results, i.e. death or definitive admission to a nursing home or hospital. The statistical analyses will be based on logistic regression and a survival analysis. CONCLUSIONS: The study should reveal patient characteristics with prognostic value, as well as identify the social and health factors related to better survival and lower consumption of health and social resources.

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PubMed2006

[Physical exercise prescription].

Although being sedentary is recognized as the most prevalent cardiovascular risk factor in industrialized societies, health measures tend to concentrate on secondary and tertiary prevention methods, using pharmacological curative measures instead of favoring methods of primary prevention by means of promoting healthy lifestyles. This article hits on the essentials to promote physical exercise by our patients.

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PubMed2005

[5.07 Monofilament: the use of this monofilament in outpatient offices by nurses in primary health care units].

A diabetic foot is the most important cause of disability and loss of life quality among diabetics. To inspect a diabetic's feet and to explore his/her protective sensibility capability with a 5.07 monofilament are efficient methods to detect the risk of lesions. The authors' objective was to discover if our Primary Health Care Unit utilizes this instrument; therefore, we carried out a poll among all the nurses in our unit. 79% of these nurses are aware of the 5.07 monofilament; 62% have this monofilament available for their use; 55% stated they utilize it. The primary reasons to not use this monofilament are its unavailability and a lack of knowledge regarding it. Priority must be given to facilitate the availability of this instrument and to promote among nurses an understanding how to correctly utilize a 5.07 monofilament.

Adult↗