[HTML][HTML] Proposals for enhanced health risk assessment and stratification in an integrated care scenario

I Dueñas-Espín, E Vela, S Pauws, C Bescos, I Cano… - BMJ open, 2016 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Objectives Population-based health risk assessment and stratification are considered highly
relevant for large-scale implementation of integrated care by facilitating services design and …

Increasing trends of acute myocardial infarction in Spain: the MONICA-Catalonia Study

S Sans, A Puigdefábregas, G Paluzie… - European heart …, 2005 - academic.oup.com
Aims To assess coronary mortality and morbidity secular trends in Spain. Methods and
results Acute coronary events occurring in both sexes at ages 35–74 years between 1985 …

Adjusted morbidity groups: A new multiple morbidity measurement of use in Primary Care

D Monterde, E Vela, M Clèries - Atencion primaria, 2016 - europepmc.org
Se ha desarrollado un agrupador de morbilidad adaptado a nuestro entorno sanitario que
permite clasificar a la población en 6 grupos de morbilidad, divididos a su vez en 5 niveles …

[HTML][HTML] Performance of quantitative measures of multimorbidity: a population-based retrospective analysis

E Vela, M Clèries, D Monterde, G Carot-Sans… - BMC Public Health, 2021 - Springer
Background Multimorbidity measures are useful for resource planning, patient selection and
prioritization, and factor adjustment in clinical practice, research, and benchmarking. We …

[HTML][HTML] Evaluation of integrated care services in Catalonia: population-based and service-based real-life deployment protocols

E Baltaxe, I Cano, C Herranz… - BMC health services …, 2019 - Springer
Background Comprehensive assessment of integrated care deployment constitutes a major
challenge to ensure quality, sustainability and transferability of both healthcare policies and …

Is age the most important risk factor in COVID-19 patients? The relevance of Comorbidity Burden: a retrospective analysis of 10,551 hospitalizations

D Valero-Bover, D Monterde, G Carot-Sans… - Clinical …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Purpose To assess the contribution of age and comorbidity to the risk of critical illness in
hospitalized COVID-19 patients using increasingly exhaustive tools for measuring …

[HTML][HTML] Development and validation of a population-based risk stratification model for severe COVID-19 in the general population

E Vela, G Carot-Sans, M Clèries, D Monterde… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
The shortage of recently approved vaccines against the severe acute respiratory syndrome
coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has highlighted the need for evidence-based tools to prioritize …

Performance of three measures of comorbidity in predicting critical COVID-19: a retrospective analysis of 4607 hospitalized patients

D Monterde, G Carot-Sans… - … and Healthcare Policy, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Background Comorbidity burden has been identified as a relevant predictor of critical illness
in patients hospitalized with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). However, comorbidity …

Population-based analysis of patients with COPD in Catalonia: a cohort study with implications for clinical management

E Vela, Á Tényi, I Cano, D Monterde, M Cleries… - BMJ open, 2018 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Background Clinical management of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
(COPD) shows potential for improvement provided that patients' heterogeneities are better …

Validity of adjusted morbidity groups with respect to clinical risk groups in the field of primary care

D Monterde, E Vela, M Clèries, G Eroles, P Sust - Atención Primaria, 2018 - europepmc.org
OBJECTIVE: To compare the performance in terms of goodness of fit and explanatory power
of 2morbidity groupers in primary care (PC): adjusted morbidity groups (AMG) and clinical …