[EN] Objectives The goal of this study is to analyse hospital costs and length of stay of patients admitted to psychiatric units in hospitals in a European region of the Mediterranean Arc. The aim is to identify the effects ...

Introduction: The growth in the demand for health services, the technological changes and the higher consumption of healthcare resources, produces a considerable increase of the Spanish healthcare expenditure. On the other ...

[EN] Objective: To perform a comparative analysis of indirect and direct costs of two minimally invasive techniques (extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy (ESWL) vs. ureteroscopy with holmium laser (URS/RIRS)) for the ...

[ES] Dado que vivimos en un planeta con recursos finitos y a la vez en una sociedad de consumo desmesurada, parece apropiado y más que necesario reflexionar entorno a la idea de soberanía alimentaria, un sistema que da el ...

[ES] Se pretende estimar la multimorbilidad asociada con diabetes mellitus tipo 2 y su relación con el gasto farmacéutico, para lo cual se realizó un estudio de corte transversal durante el año 2012. Se identificó a 350 ...

Introduction Increased life expectancy and the resulting aging population have led to a rise in population with one or more chronic diseases. This creates the need for a more targeted approach to the care and treatment of ...

[EN] Objectives: This article has two main purposes. Firstly, to model the integrated healthcare expenditure for the entire population of a health district in Spain, according to multimorbidity, using Clinical Risk Groups ...

[EN] In the recent context of student-centered learning, they are more involved in the whole learning process, while the teacher is only a guide through their learning. This implies that students must be also involved in ...