Identifying needs and improving palliative care of chronically ill patients: a community-oriented, population-based, public-health approach

X Gómez-Batiste, M Martínez-Muñoz… - Current opinion in …, 2012 - journals.lww.com
The challenges are to promote early and shared interventions, extended to all patients in
need, in all settings of the social care and healthcare systems; to design and develop …

Prevalence and characteristics of patients with advanced chronic conditions in need of palliative care in the general population: a cross-sectional study

X Gómez-Batiste, M Martínez-Muñoz… - Palliative …, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
Background: Of deaths in high-income countries, 75% are caused by progressive advanced
chronic conditions. Palliative care needs to be extended from terminal cancer to these …

Identifying patients with chronic conditions in need of palliative care in the general population: development of the NECPAL tool and preliminary prevalence rates in …

X Gómez-Batiste, M Martínez-Muñoz… - BMJ supportive & …, 2013 - spcare.bmj.com
Palliative care (PC) has focused on patients with cancer within specialist services. However,
around 75% of the population in middle-income and high-income countries die of one or …

Identifying patients with advanced chronic conditions for a progressive palliative care approach: a cross-sectional study of prognostic indicators related to end-of-life …

J Amblàs-Novellas, SA Murray, J Espaulella… - BMJ open, 2016 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Objectives 2 innovative concepts have lately been developed to radically improve the care
of patients with advanced chronic conditions (PACC): early identification of palliative care …

[HTML][HTML] The Catalonia World Health Organization demonstration project for palliative care implementation: quantitative and qualitative results at 20 years

X Gómez-Batiste, C Caja, J Espinosa, I Bullich… - Journal of pain and …, 2012 - Elsevier
Catalonia (Spain) has a total population of 7.3 million citizens for whom the National Health
Service (NHS) provides health care that is free at the point of access. The prevalence of …

[HTML][HTML] Thrombopoietin receptor agonists for severe thrombocytopenia after allogeneic stem cell transplantation: experience of the Spanish Group of Hematopoietic …

L Bento, JM Bastida, I García-Cadenas… - Biology of Blood and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Persistent thrombocytopenia is a common complication after allogeneic hematopoietic stem
cell transplantation (allo-SCT). Romiplostim and eltrombopag are the currently available …

Slaying the “Troll of Transplantation”—new frontiers in cytomegalovirus management: A report from the CMV International Symposium 2023

CN Kotton, J Torre‐Cisneros… - Transplant Infectious …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The 2023 International CMV Symposium took place in Barcelona in May 2023.
During the 2‐day meeting, delegates and faculty discussed the ongoing challenge of …

Ethical challenges of early identification of advanced chronic patients in need of palliative care: the Catalan experience

X Gómez-Batiste, C Blay, MA Broggi… - … of Palliative Care, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Palliative care must be early applied to all types of advanced chronic and life limited
prognosis patients, present in all health and social services. Patients' early identification and …

[HTML][HTML] The Catalonia WHO demonstration project of palliative care: Results at 25 years (1990–2015)

X Gómez-Batiste, C Blay, M Martínez-Muñoz… - Journal of Pain and …, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract In 2015, the World Health Organization (WHO) Demonstration Project on Palliative
Care in Catalonia (Spain) celebrated its 25th anniversary. The present report describes the …

Identification of people with chronic advanced diseases and need of palliative care in sociosanitary services: elaboration of the NECPAL CCOMS-ICO© tool

X Gomez-Batiste, M Martínez-Muñoz, C Blay… - Medicina …, 2012 - europepmc.org
Results The NECPAL CCOMS-ICO (©) tool proposes a quantitative-qualitative,
multifactorial, indicative and not dichotomous evaluation combining subjective perception …