Abstract Background and Aims In our current healthcare situation, burden on healthcare
services is increasing, with higher costs and increased utilization. Structured population …

Background Multimorbidity is highly relevant for both service commissioning and clinical
decision-making. Optimization of variables assessing multimorbidity in order to enhance …

Recent advances on prospective monitoring and retrospective analysis of health information
at national or regional level are generating high expectations for the application of Big Data …

Background Multimorbidity measures are useful for resource planning, patient selection and
prioritization, and factor adjustment in clinical practice, research, and benchmarking. We …

Objective: To assess health outcomes and cost of prehabilitation. Design: Prospective cohort
study with a control group built using propensity score–matching techniques. Setting …

Background The changes in shield strategies, treatments, emergence variants, and
healthcare pathways might shift the profile and outcome of patients hospitalized with COVID …

Home Hospitalization has proven efficacy, but its effectiveness and potential as an
Integrated Care Service in a real world setting deserves to be explored. Objective: To …

The Chronic Care Program introduced in Catalonia in 2011 focuses on improving the
identification and management of complex chronic (CCPs) and advanced chronic patients …

Background Digital health tools comprise a wide range of technologies to support health
processes. The potential of these technologies to effectively support health care …

Background Comprehensive assessment of integrated care deployment constitutes a major
challenge to ensure quality, sustainability and transferability of both healthcare policies and …