GROIMAP

Osteoporosis and Musculoskeletal Diseases in Primary Care Research Group

The GROIMAP research group is integrated into the Research Support Unit of the Metropolitan North of the IDIAP Jordi Gol. The research group has been recognized as an emergent research group by the IDIAP Jordi Gol and as a pre-consolidated group by the AGAUR of the Generalitat de Catalunya. This is a multidisciplinary research group formed by doctors of different medicine specialties (Family Medicine, Rheumatology, Nuclear Medicine, Rehabilitation and Physical Therapy), and by Physiotherapists and Nurses. The purpose of the group is the clinical and epidemiological investigation of the prevalent diseases of the musculoskeletal system in primary care and its determinants. With special interest in two aspects: the epidemiology of osteoporotic fractures, also called fragility fractures, and its primary and secondary prevention and also falls prevention. In the prevention chapter, the research group has stood out in the determination of the absolute risk (individual) of fragility fracture in the next 10 years and in the development of useful tools for primary care level to detect the population with greater risk for new fractures to apply preventive measures, both pharmacological and others factors as prevention of falls.

Since its creation, the group has published numerous works in scientific journals indexed and with an impact factor. Its members have obtained funding in several competitive research calls. The group is coordinated by Dr. Rafael Azagra Ledesma who is a specialist in Family Medicine and in Clinical Pharmacology. He works as a Medical Doctor at the Badia del Valles Center and his teaching as a Senior Professor of Family Medicine at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. The group is co-led by Dr. Marta Zwart Salmerón. From the academic point of view, the group has completed 14 doctoral theses with the highest qualification of excellence and one of them has obtained the Extraordinary Doctorate Award from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (Dr. Marta Zwart Salmerón). Two of the main current projects are: the "PRECIOSA" project, with funding from the Carlos III Health Institute (FIS scholarship). This project has a Spin-off called PRECIOSA II-Badia de Intervencion Comunitaria and is focused as well on the prevention of falls in people over 75 years old living in the community with private funding from the PREVIOSA private foundation. The fieldwork is developed in the Nord Metropolitan Management of the Institut Català de la Salut. The second project "EPIFROS", with funding from the AGAUR of the Generalitat de Catalunya, is focused on the determination of fracture risk factors and on the epidemiology of fragility fracture.

Group projects

PI: Díaz Herrera, Miguel Ángel. Análisis epidemiológico de heridas crónicas (lesiones por presión, úlceras de etiología venosa, úlceras de etiología arterial y pie diabético) en atención primaria en la zona metropolitana sur de Barcelona. Funding: ICS - Institut Català de la Salut. Duration: 2019 - 2022

The group participates in the following projects

PI: Llor Vilà, Carles. Efectividad del tratamiento antitusígeno, anticolinérgico y miel versus práctica habitual en adultos con bronquitis aguda no complicada.. Funding: Instituto de Salud Carlos III. Duration: 2018 - 2022

PI: Palacín Peruga, José María. Caracteristicas clinicas y ecografias asociadas con el pronostico en pacientes con pneumonia por SARS-COV-2. (PROYECTO E-COVID). Funding: ICS - Institut Català de la Salut. Duration: 2021 - 2024

PI: Martínez Redondo, Javier. Impacto de la institucionalización en un centro geriátrico y la ruralidad en el riesgo de la infección y la mortalidad por COVID-19 durante la primera ola de la pandemia.. Funding: ICS - Institut Català de la Salut. Duration: 2021 - 2023

PI: Díaz Herrera, Miguel Ángel. Análisis y descripción de costes derivados del cuidado de heridas crónicas (lesiones por presión, úlceras de etiología venosa, úlceras de etiología arterial y pie diabético) en atención primaria en la zona metropolitana sur de Barcelona. Funding: ICS - Institut Català de la Salut. Duration: 2021 - 2022

PI: Díaz Herrera, Miguel Ángel. Análisis epidemiológico de heridas crónicas (lesiones por presión, úlceras de etiología venosa, úlceras de etiología arterial y pie diabético) en atención primaria en la zona metropolitana sur de Barcelona. Funding: ICS - Institut Català de la Salut. Duration: 2021 - 2021

PI: Díaz Herrera, Miguel Ángel. Disseny i validació d'un ítem específic per a l'adequació de l'administració de les escales de valoració del risc de presentar úlceres per pressió (EVRUPP). Braden.. Funding: ICS - Institut Català de la Salut. Duration: 2020 - 2021

PI: Zwart Salmerón, Marta. Estudi sobre el maneig terapèutic de la infecció del tracte urinari en l'àmbit de l'atenció primària. Estudi observacional descriptiu.. Funding: ICS - Institut Català de la Salut. Duration: 2019 - 2021

The group participates in the following publications

Cabellos-García AC, Martínez-Sabater A, Díaz-Herrera MÁ, Gea-Caballero V, Castro-Sánchez E. Health literacy of patients on oral anticoagulation treatment- individual and social determinants and effect on health and treatment outcomes. BMC Public Health. 2021 Jul; 21(1):1363. doi:10.1186/s12889-021-11259-w. Epub 2021 Jul 09. PMID:34243749. IF: 2,521.

Casado E, Blanch J, Carbonell C, Bastida JC, Pérez-Castrillón JL, Canals L, Lizán L. Multidisciplinary expert consensus on secondary fracture prevention in Spain. Arch Osteoporos. 2021 02; 16(1):48. doi:10.1007/s11657-021-00878-w. Epub 2021 Feb 27. pmc:PMC7914041. PMID:33641008. IF: 2,617.

Castro-Rodríguez E, Azagra R, Gómez-Batiste X, Povedano M. [Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) from the perspective of Primary Care. Epidemiology and clinical-care characteristics]. Aten Primaria. 2021 Sep; 53(10):102158. doi:10.1016/j.aprim.2021.102158. Epub 2021 Sep 09. Spanish. pmc:PMC8435918. PMID:34509895. IF: 1,137.

Díaz-Herrera MÁ, Martínez-Riera JR, Verdú-Soriano J, Capillas-Pérez RM, Pont-García C, Tenllado-Pérez S, Cunillera-Puértolas O, Berenguer-Pérez M, Gea-Caballero V. Multicentre Study of Chronic Wounds Point Prevalence in Primary Health Care in the Southern Metropolitan Area of Barcelona. J Clin Med. 2021 Feb; 10(4). doi:10.3390/jcm10040797. Epub 2021 Feb 16. pmc:PMC7920417. PMID:33669397. IF: 3,303.

Martínez Redondo J, Comas Rodríguez C, Pujol Salud J, Crespo Pons M, García Serrano C, Ortega Bravo M, Palacín Peruga JM. Higher Accuracy of Lung Ultrasound over Chest X-ray for Early Diagnosis of COVID-19 Pneumonia. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021 03; 18(7). doi:10.3390/ijerph18073481. Epub 2021 Mar 27. pmc:PMC8037158. PMID:33801638. IF: 2,849.

Martínez-Redondo J, Comas C, Pujol Salud J, Crespo-Pons M, García-Serrano C, Bravo MO, Peruga JMP. The Risk of Hospitalization in COVID-19 Patients Can Be Predicted by Lung Ultrasound in Primary Care. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021 06; 18(11). doi:10.3390/ijerph18116083. Epub 2021 Jun 04. pmc:PMC8200245. PMID:34200028. IF: 2,849.

Indicators

Indicator

2021

Researchers with PhD

14

Total number of projects in which group members have participated

8

Total number of projects in which the PI of the project has belonged to the group

5

Total Funding

114.950 €

Scientific publications in indexed journals

6

Total Impact factor

15,28

Nº of articles in Q1 journals

0

Q1 IF

 

Nº of articles in Q2 journals

1

Q2 IF

2,617
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