Jordi Amblàs-Novellas
Biographic Data
| ID | 6777023 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jordi Amblàs-Novellas |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jordi |
| FAMILY NAME | Amblàs-Novellas |
| SIGNATURE | AMBLÀS-NOVELLAS J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universitat de Vic - Universitat Central de Catalunya |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2338-3054 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Advancing in the identification and assessment of integrated social and health care experiences in Catalonia
Identifying and evaluating best practices in the social and health care systems of Catalonia have been a challenge in the last years. It implies defining what integrated care models are, what these models look like, understand their dynamics, needs, commonalities and contexts. Different strategic initiatives have coexisted in the Catalan policy agenda. More recently, integrated care referent professionals have been promoted to further understand …
Impact of Integrating Social and Health Home Care Services in Catalonia: A Retrospective Cohort-Based Two-Year Study
Integration of social and health HCSs resulted in a shift from institutionalization services to primary care services and day care centers, prolonging recipients' lives in their homes
Integrated Health and Social Home Care Services in Catalonia: Professionals’ Perception of its Implementation, Barriers, and Facilitators
Our study showed that the degree of implementation of integrated health and social HCS offered by the Government of Catalonia was perceived as low. The identified barriers and facilitators can be used to facilitate such implementation. Further studies should include professionals other than social workers in PHC assessments
Excess mortality among older adults institutionalized in long-term care facilities during the Covid-19 pandemic: A population-based analysis in Catalonia
Objectives: To assess excess mortality among older adults institutionalized in nursing homes within the successive waves of the COVID-19 pandemic in Catalonia (north-east Spain). Design: Observational, retrospective analysis of population-based central healthcare registries. Setting and participants: Individuals aged >65 years admitted in any nursing home in Catalonia between January 1, 2015, and April 1, 2022. Methods: Deaths reported during the…
Factors Associated with the Detection of Inappropriate Prescriptions in Older People: A Prospective Cohort
(1) Background: Ageing is associated with complex and dynamic changes leading to multimorbidity and, therefore, polypharmacy. The main objectives were to study an older community-dwelling cohort, to detect inappropriate prescriptions (IP) applying the Patient-Centred Prescription model, and to evaluate the most associated factors. (2) Methods: This was a prospective, descriptive, and observational study conducted from June 2019 to October 2020 on…
Characteristics and Service Utilization by Complex Chronic and Advanced Chronic Patients in Catalonia: A Retrospective Seven-Year Cohort-Based Study of an Implemented Chronic Care Program
The Chronic Care Program introduced in Catalonia in 2011 focuses on improving the identification and management of complex chronic (CCPs) and advanced chronic patients (ACPs) by implementing an individualized care model. Its first stage is their identification based on chronicity, difficult clinical management (i.e., complexity), and, in ACPs, limited life prognosis. Subsequent stages are individual evaluation and implementation of a shared perso…
A Multi-Domain Group-Based Intervention to Promote Physical Activity, Healthy Nutrition, and Psychological Wellbeing in Older People with Losses in Intrinsic Capacity: Amicope Development Study
The World Health Organization has developed the Integrated Care of Older People (ICOPE) strategy, a program based on the measurement of intrinsic capacity (IC) as "the composite of all physical and mental attributes on which an individual can draw". Multicomponent interventions appear to be the most effective approach to enhance IC and to prevent frailty and disability since adapted physical activity is the preventive intervention that has shown …
Reliability, Validity, and Feasibility of the Frail-VIG Index
The study aimed to assess the reliability of the scores, evidence of validity, and feasibility of the Frail-VIG index. A validation study mixing hospitalized and community-dwelling older people was designed. Intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC) was used to assess the inter-rater agreement and the reliability. The construct validity of the Frail-VIG index with respect to the Frailty Phenotype (FP) was evaluated by calculating the area under th…
Patient-Centered Prescription Model for enhance effective prescribing and therapeutic adherence in patients with multimorbidity
The International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original articles in the field of integrated care on a continuous basis.IJIC has an Impact Factor of 5.120 (2020 JCR, received in June 2021)
A Patient-Centered Prescription Model assessing the appropriateness of chronic drug therapy in older patients
Introduction: Drug therapy in older patients is becoming a worldwide concern due to the progressive increase in the number of drug prescriptions and the difficulties in ensuring appropriate prescribing. Appropriate prescribing in these patients is a complex problem that cannot be solved by simply applying clinical practice guidelines (CPG).Patients with multimorbidity usually show an evolution towards a progressive clinical, functional or cogniti…
Changes in emergency services to adapt to the complexity pathway within the health system
Context: In most developed countries, there is an increase of frail elderly people who are frequent users of health and social resources, often in an unplanned way. Recently, because of sustainability, there has been a significant reduction in acute hospital beds.These two phenomena have led to a saturation of the emergency services and increased the need for a new organizational model.This problem needs to be approached in a systemic way, by vie…
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A Patient-Centered Prescription Model assessing the appropriateness of chronic drug therapy in older patients
Introduction: Drug therapy in older patients is becoming a worldwide concern due to the progressive increase in the number of drug prescriptions and the difficulties in ensuring appropriate prescribing. Appropriate prescribing in these patients is a complex problem that cannot be solved by simply applying clinical practice guidelines (CPG).Patients with multimorbidity usually show an evolution towards a progressive clinical, functional or cogniti…
Changes in emergency services to adapt to the complexity pathway within the health system
Context: In most developed countries, there is an increase of frail elderly people who are frequent users of health and social resources, often in an unplanned way. Recently, because of sustainability, there has been a significant reduction in acute hospital beds.These two phenomena have led to a saturation of the emergency services and increased the need for a new organizational model.This problem needs to be approached in a systemic way, by vie…
Patient-Centered Prescription Model for enhance effective prescribing and therapeutic adherence in patients with multimorbidity
The International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original articles in the field of integrated care on a continuous basis.IJIC has an Impact Factor of 5.120 (2020 JCR, received in June 2021)
Factors Associated with the Detection of Inappropriate Prescriptions in Older People: A Prospective Cohort
(1) Background: Ageing is associated with complex and dynamic changes leading to multimorbidity and, therefore, polypharmacy. The main objectives were to study an older community-dwelling cohort, to detect inappropriate prescriptions (IP) applying the Patient-Centred Prescription model, and to evaluate the most associated factors. (2) Methods: This was a prospective, descriptive, and observational study conducted from June 2019 to October 2020 on…
Characteristics and Service Utilization by Complex Chronic and Advanced Chronic Patients in Catalonia: A Retrospective Seven-Year Cohort-Based Study of an Implemented Chronic Care Program
The Chronic Care Program introduced in Catalonia in 2011 focuses on improving the identification and management of complex chronic (CCPs) and advanced chronic patients (ACPs) by implementing an individualized care model. Its first stage is their identification based on chronicity, difficult clinical management (i.e., complexity), and, in ACPs, limited life prognosis. Subsequent stages are individual evaluation and implementation of a shared perso…
A Multi-Domain Group-Based Intervention to Promote Physical Activity, Healthy Nutrition, and Psychological Wellbeing in Older People with Losses in Intrinsic Capacity: Amicope Development Study
The World Health Organization has developed the Integrated Care of Older People (ICOPE) strategy, a program based on the measurement of intrinsic capacity (IC) as "the composite of all physical and mental attributes on which an individual can draw". Multicomponent interventions appear to be the most effective approach to enhance IC and to prevent frailty and disability since adapted physical activity is the preventive intervention that has shown …
Reliability, Validity, and Feasibility of the Frail-VIG Index
The study aimed to assess the reliability of the scores, evidence of validity, and feasibility of the Frail-VIG index. A validation study mixing hospitalized and community-dwelling older people was designed. Intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC) was used to assess the inter-rater agreement and the reliability. The construct validity of the Frail-VIG index with respect to the Frailty Phenotype (FP) was evaluated by calculating the area under th…
Excess mortality among older adults institutionalized in long-term care facilities during the Covid-19 pandemic: A population-based analysis in Catalonia
Objectives: To assess excess mortality among older adults institutionalized in nursing homes within the successive waves of the COVID-19 pandemic in Catalonia (north-east Spain). Design: Observational, retrospective analysis of population-based central healthcare registries. Setting and participants: Individuals aged >65 years admitted in any nursing home in Catalonia between January 1, 2015, and April 1, 2022. Methods: Deaths reported during the…
Integrated Health and Social Home Care Services in Catalonia: Professionals’ Perception of its Implementation, Barriers, and Facilitators
Our study showed that the degree of implementation of integrated health and social HCS offered by the Government of Catalonia was perceived as low. The identified barriers and facilitators can be used to facilitate such implementation. Further studies should include professionals other than social workers in PHC assessments
Advancing in the identification and assessment of integrated social and health care experiences in Catalonia
Identifying and evaluating best practices in the social and health care systems of Catalonia have been a challenge in the last years. It implies defining what integrated care models are, what these models look like, understand their dynamics, needs, commonalities and contexts. Different strategic initiatives have coexisted in the Catalan policy agenda. More recently, integrated care referent professionals have been promoted to further understand …
Impact of Integrating Social and Health Home Care Services in Catalonia: A Retrospective Cohort-Based Two-Year Study
Integration of social and health HCSs resulted in a shift from institutionalization services to primary care services and day care centers, prolonging recipients' lives in their homes
Medicine (11 works) · Nursing (7 works) · Gerontology (6 works) · Chronic Disease Management Strategies (5 works) · Environmental health (5 works) · Health care (5 works) · Family medicine (4 works) · Frailty in Older Adults (4 works) · Internal Medicine (4 works) · Political science (4 works)