Atencion primaria
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To assess whether reporting the dosing frequency into the prescription module of the Institut Català de la Salut (ICS) primary care electronic clinical workstation improves the dosing frequency's adequacy of the prescriptions. ⋯ The intervention increased the dosing frequency's adequacy leading to improvements in the safety and effectiveness of the treatments. It is evident that the design and implementation of improvements in electronic prescription systems contributes to increasing the quality of the prescription.
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To explore the factors related to health-promoting lifestyles of the elderly based on social-ecosystem theory. ⋯ The health promotion lifestyle of the elderly in Hebei Province was at the lower limit of good level. Among them, exercise frequency, children's attention to the elderly health, and pre-retirement occupation played a major role in relation to the health-promoting lifestyle of the elderly. Hence, it needs the joint action of individuals, families, and society to promote the elderly to adopt the health promotion lifestyle and realize healthy aging.
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To investigate the prevalence of diabetic retinopathy in a rural health basic area, and to establish the type, the severity degree and the relationship with sex and with another cardiovascular risk factors. ⋯ It is possible to do the ophthalmological follow-up of 82% of the population with diabetes in primary health care, involving its professionals and team-working with the ophthalmologists. It is paramount to consider diabetic retinopathy within the global context of the person with diabetes, relating diabetic retinopathy with the other microvascular complications and cardiovascular diseases.