Epidemiology, Care Improvement and Chronicity

Group A7G2 - Evaluation of healthcare services

Accreditation level: Consolidated group

The aim of our group is to know and deepen research in the field of health services, evaluating the clinical practice of the most prevalent diseases or procedures within the population to improve decision-making and assess the needs of the population to improve results in all clinical, social and quality of life kisses. For this reason, our group's research center is to facilitate innovation in health services research by incorporating the perspective of the population into all healthcare processes.

Our group is made up of a team of multidisciplinary professionals (doctors and nurses), epidemiologists, clinicians from different medical specialties and the prevention service.

Lines of research

• Study and analysis of patient safety in care processes.
• Health promotion and education in the general population and in health professionals.
• Evaluation of the quality of care and hospital processes.
• HIV epidemiology.

Composition of the group

Gemma Navarro Rubio (Group leader)

Group A7G3 - Fragile patient

Accreditation level: Associated group

The fragility group is born from the need to promote and improve care and research in the fragile older population.

It is an interdisciplinary group, made up of professionals from various fields of care (medicine, nursing, social work and occupational therapy) who work together and in a coordinated way in the care and prevention of fragility in the elderly; for the improvement of the care processes, improvement of the quality of life, as well as to promote the autonomy and the participation of the old person in the decision making

Lines of research

• Advance decision planning as a tool for improving person-centered care
• Multidisciplinary intervention in the patient with proximal femur fracture.
• Patient characteristics and interdisciplinary approach in the post-COVID patient.

Composition of the group

Esperança Anton Nieto (Group leader)

Group A7G4 – Nursing research group

Accreditation level: Popup group

On November 11, 2017, the I3PT accredited, as an associated group, the Nursing Research Group (GRItauli). It is an open group that wants to incorporate all those CSPT professionals who carry out research activities. in nursing care and facilitate (through information, training and support) research. The main objective of our group is to promote quality research in nursing care at the CSPT and in a very short period of time we have achieved that in our institution the research developed by nurses acquires a new visibility.

Lines of research

• Complex interventions and innovation in care.
• Health outcomes and gender perspective.
• Care for fragile, dependent and vulnerable people.

Composition of the group

Ester Risco Vilarasau (Cap de grup)

Group A7G6 - Chronicity and public health

Accreditation level: Consolidated group

The multidisciplinary group of Chronicity and Public Health-CRiSP, is composed of a multidisciplinary team, specialists in preventive medicine and public health, internal medicine, geriatrics, cardiology, and biostatistics. The group has belonged to the state thematic Network REDISSEC (Research Network for Health Services in Chronic Diseases) since 2012, and is accredited by AGAUR as an Emerging Group since 2017. The lines of research developed by the group include the study of multimorbidity patterns, evaluation of processes and clinical outcomes likely to improve chronic patient care (adequacy of treatment, mortality, complications), assessment of adverse effects and risk estimation, as well as participation of patients in decision-making, in the context of population cancer screening.

Among other minor contributions, the group leads or participates in competitive multicenter projects in relation to breast cancer (Bele I and II study, CAMISS study, RISC study), in colorectal cancer (Caress-CCR I and II study, CYDESA study), in heart failure (ESIC study) and in polymedicated elderly chronic patients (PIMyC study, MRisk COVID). Some of the projects developed by the group are state-level, and others regional.

Lines of research

• Chronic pathology. Assessment of the adequacy of clinical practice and analysis of multimorbidity.
• Modeling of adverse clinical care outcomes.
• Study of the assessment of patients on their involvement in the clinical care process.

Composition of the group

Marisa Baré Mañas (Group leader)

Group A7G7 - Maternal-Fetal Medicine

Accreditation level: Associated group

The maternal-fetal medicine (MMF) recreation group is made up of a group of professionals from the Gynecology and Obstetrics Service, who specialize in MMF.

The MMF has emerged as a specific development area within Obstetrics, the purpose of which is to implement strategies for predicting, diagnosing and treating a set of conditions that affect pregnancy and endanger the health of the woman. mother, fetus or both.

In recent decades, a special interest in the fetus has arisen, which has given rise to a great advance in research in this area, sustained to a large extent by an important technological advance in imaging techniques such as ultrasound and genetic techniques , such as the study of the exome or the indirect study of free fetal DNA in maternal blood.

These advances have helped to shape a new multidisciplinary medical specialty that considers the fetus as an individual patient and in relation to its mother, establishing prophylactic treatments, direct medical therapy, ultrasound-guided interventions, open and fetoscopic surgeries.

Lines of research

• Placental insufficiency
• Prematurity
• Prenatal diagnosis and genetic techniques
• Diabetes and other endocrinopathies of pregnancy
• Perinatal psychiatry

Composition of the group

Montserrat Comas Rovira (Cap de grup)

Group A7G8 – Biomedical Research in Gynecology

Accreditation level: Associated group

The Biomedical Research in Gynecology group is a multidisciplinary team made up of specialists in gynecology and pathology. The research they carry out is translational, since it is aimed at evaluating how the advances obtained are applied to their clinical practice.

The group focuses its research on clinical projects related to gynecological pathology and surgery such as, for example, pelvic floor dysfunctions, endometriosis, uterine myomatosis, adnexal cysts, uterine cavity alterations, diseases of the lower female genital tract, as well as in clinical projects on gynecological cancers (ovary, endometrium, vulva and breast) and reproductive endocrinology and functional sterility.

Currently, the group collaborates in multi-centre projects with research groups at Bellvitge hospitals and Vall Hebron hospital.

Lines of research

• Study of non-invasive strategies for the treatment of dysfunctions of the pelvic floor
• Early detection, diagnosis and treatment of gynecological cancers
• Study of reproductive endocrinology and functional sterility of women

Composition of the group

Montserrat Mestre Costa (Cap de grup)