Emma Puigoriol Juvanteny
Member of Research Line in Bone and muscle fragility
Email: epuigoriol@chv.cat
ORCID: 0000-0002-5510-2480
Scientific Profile: U-RECERCA
Associate Professor of Basic Science and Methodology at the Faculty of Health Sciences and Welfare at University of Vic – Central University of Catalonia. Also, since 2006, she works at the Clinical Epidemiology Unit of the Consorci Hospitalari de Vic.
Ms. Emma Puigoriol has extensive experience in methodological support as data manager and statistical analysis of research projects carried out at the University Hospital of Vic (HUV). She has extensive training and experience with STATA statistical software and IBM SPSS Statistics. She has great expertise in collaborating with different fields of knowledge, as her more than 15 publications shown.
Ms. Emma Puigoriol has a degree in Statistics by the University of Barcelona.
My last happenings:
Medication Assessment in an Older Population during Acute Care Hospitalization and Its Effect on the Anticholinergic Burden: A Prospective Cohort Study
Medication Assessment in an Older Population during Acute Care Hospitalization and Its Effect on the Anticholinergic Burden: A Prospective Cohort Study Authors: Mariona Espaulella-Ferrer, Nuria Molist-Brunet, Joan Espaulella-Panicot, Daniel Sevilla-Sánchez, Emma Puigoriol-Juvanteny and Marta Otero-Viñas Abstract: (1) Background: Anticholinergic and sedative drugs (ASDs) contribute to negative health outcomes, especially in the frail population. In this study, we aimed to assess whether frailty increases with anticholinergic burden and to evaluate the effects of medication reviews (MRs) on ASD regimens among patients attending an acute care for the elderly (ACE) unit. (2) Methods: A cohort study was conducted between June [...]
Assessment of frailty in elderly patients attending a multidisciplinary wound care centre a cohort study
Article: Assessment of frailty in elderly patients attending a multidisciplinary wound care centre: a cohort study. Authors: Mariona Espaulella-Ferrer, Joan Espaulella-Panicot, Rosa Noell-Boix, Marta Casals-Zorita, Marta Ferrer-Sola, Emma Puigoriol-Juvanteny, Marta Cullell Dalmau and Marta Otero-Viñas. PDF Article Abstract: Background: The incidence of frailty and non-healing wounds increases with patients' age. Knowledge of the relationship between frailty and wound healing progress is greatly lacking. Methods: The aim of this study is to characterize the degree of frailty in elderly patients attending a multidisciplinary wound care centres (MWCC). Additionally, we seek to assess the impact of frailty on the wound healing rate [...]
Insight in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Relationship With Sociodemographic and Clinical Characteristics
Article: Insight in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Relationship With Sociodemographic and Clinical Characteristics Authors: M. Asunción Guillén-Font, Mònica Cervera, Emma Puigoriol, Quintí Foguet-Boreu, Francesc X. Arrufat and Montserrat Serra-Millàs Link: PDF article Abstract: Background: Insight is considered a multidimensional concept and, in the context of obsessivecompulsive disorder (OCD), impairment in insight has been widely reported to be associated with severity and other clinical and sociodemographic variables. However, the studies concerning insight in OCD have produced heterogenous data as a result of the scales used to measure insight. To overcome this heterogeneity, the study presented here used 4 different widely [...]
