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Open AccessIncidence of urinary incontinence after hip fracture surgery and associated risk factors: a prospective study
The contribution of the postoperative process to develo** or worsening urinary incontinence (UI) after hip fracture surgery (HFS) remains unclear. We aimed to evaluate UI incidence and worsening among older ...
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Open AccessStudy protocol of a randomized controlled trial to assess safety of teleconsultation compared with face-to-face consultation: the ECASeT study
The use of remote consultation modalities has exponentially grown in the past few years, particularly since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Although a huge body of the literature has described the use of p...
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Open AccessMachine learning for the development of diagnostic models of decompensated heart failure or exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Heart failure (HF) and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are two chronic diseases with the greatest adverse impact on the general population, and early detection of their decompensation is an import...
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Open AccessCharacteristics and Outcomes by Ceiling of Care of Subjects Hospitalized with COVID-19 During Four Waves of the Pandemic in a Metropolitan Area: A Multicenter Cohort Study
The profiles of patients with COVID-19 have been widely studied, but little is known about differences in baseline characteristics and in outcomes between subjects with a ceiling of care assigned at hospital a...
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Open AccessPain and recurrent falls in the older and oldest-old non-institutionalized population
Recurrent falls represent a priority in geriatric research. In this study we evaluated the influence of pain as a risk factor for recurrent falls (two or more in 1 year) in the older (65–79 years) and oldest-o...
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Open AccessEstimating dyskinesia severity in Parkinson’s disease by using a waist-worn sensor: concurrent validity study
Our research team previously developed an accelerometry-based device, which can be worn on the waist during daily life activities and detects the occurrence of dyskinesia in patients with Parkinson’s disease. ...
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Open AccessThe spatial parameters of gait and their association with falls, functional decline and death in older adults: a prospective study
Association between spatial gait parameters and adverse health outcomes in the elderly has not been sufficiently studied. The goal of this study is to evaluate whether the stride length or the step width predi...
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Open AccessNormal limits of home measured spatial gait parameters of the elderly population and their association with health variables
Gait studies in the elderly population have been always conducted in gait labs or spacious clinical facilities, which influence gait parameters, and also implies that the participants have to be able to move t...
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Prevalence and treatment of pain in non-institutionalized very old population: transversal study at national level
In Europe, there is no conclusive data at national level about pain prevalence in non-institutionalized very old population. In USA, it has recently been reported a high prevalence (56 %); however, this data c...
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Detecting freezing of gait with a tri-axial accelerometer in Parkinson’s disease patients
Freezing of gait (FOG) is a common motor symptom of Parkinson’s disease (PD), which presents itself as an inability to initiate or continue gait. This paper presents a method to monitor FOG episodes based only...
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Monitoring Motor Fluctuations in Parkinson’s Disease Using a Waist-Worn Inertial Sensor
Parkinson’s disease (PD) is the second most common neurodegenerative disorder. First appreciable symptoms in PD are those related to an altered movement control. Current PD treatments temporally revert the sym...
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Association with and predictive capacity of self-perceived risk of falling in recurrent falls in older people: a prospective study
Given the impact of recurrent falls in older people, risk evaluation for falling is an important part of geriatric assessment. Available clinical tools usually do not include patients’ self-perceived risk of f...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Identification of Postural Transitions Using a Waist-Located Inertial Sensor
Analysis of human movement is an important research area, specially for health applications. In order to assess the quality of life of people with mobility problems like Parkinson’s disease (PD) or stroke pati...
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Open AccessFunctional assessment of older patients in the emergency department: comparison between standard instruments, medical records and physicians' perceptions
We evaluated the accuracy of physician recognition of functional status impairment in older emergency departments (ED) patients. In particular, we evaluated the accuracy of medical records (a comparison of the...
