Carrilero, Neus
Dalmau-Bueno, Albert
García-Altés, Anna
Article History
Received: 23 February 2021
Accepted: 7 June 2021
First Online: 16 June 2021
Declarations
:
: The authors assert that all procedures contributing to this work comply with the ethical standards of the relevant national and institutional committees on human experimentation and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2008. The study was approved by the Agency for Health Quality and Assessment of Catalonia (AQuAS) and the Department of Health of the Catalonia Government. An institutional review board was not necessary because the study is not experimental.The analysis presented in the paper is entirely based on data gathered from the Catalan Minimum Basic Data Set (CMBD its Catalan acronym). As explained in the paper, the CMBD is an administrative register used for planning and evaluation purposes that includes data related to the clinical activity of public healthcare centres (hospital, primary care centres, long-term care centres, and mental health centres) in Catalonia. The register contains sociodemographic data of patients and variables about clinical diagnoses, procedures, length of stay, and origin and destination at discharge of patients.
: Not applicable.
: All authors declare: neither support nor influence from any organisation for the submitted work.