Hospital Comarcal de Inca

Searching for the Ideal Selection of Cognitive Screening Tasks for Early Detection of Cognitive Decline in Older Individuals With Low Literacy

ABSTRACT Background Tests for detecting neurocognitive disorders may not be suitable for individuals with low educational levels. This study presents a battery of cognitive tests and tasks to improve the detection of cognitive decline in older adults with different literacy level...

Mapping the evidence on interventions to reduce potentially inappropriate prescriptions in older adults: a scoping overview of 127 systematic reviews

Potentially inappropriate prescriptions (PIPs) are highly prevalent among older adults and associated with adverse outcomes, including hospitalisations and mortality. Numerous interventions have been evaluated and synthesised in reviews, but the review-level evidence remains hete...

Hallux Valgus, Not Hallux Abductus Valgus: A Short Report on Historical and Anatomical Terminology

Background: This short report argues that the term “hallux abductus valgus” is anatomically inconsistent and should be replaced by “hallux valgus.” Hallux valgus describes a lateral deviation of the great toe with a medial deviation of the first metatarsal. Although the deformity...

Sex differences in epidemiology and clinical presentation of glomerular diseases in a nationwide Spanish biopsy registry

Sex differences influence the epidemiology and clinical expression of kidney diseases. Most primary glomerulonephritis shows male predominance, whereas lupus nephritis remains strongly female-biased. Large national cohorts with sex-stratified analyses are limited. We analysed all...

Short-term knowledge gains and learner satisfaction after a basic radiology course for family medicine residents in a 3-dimensional virtual environment: a multi-cohort pretest–posttest study in Spain

Purpose: This study aimed to evaluate a structured basic radiology course for Family Medicine residents delivered in a 3-dimensional (3D) virtual environment (Second Life). We hypothesized that participation would be associated with higher post-course knowledge test scores and hi...