Epidemiology and Evaluation

 Research group

Group Leader

Maria Sala Serra

This is a group with multidisciplinary training (epidemiology, health economy, statistics and nursing), which has carried out research activity in the field of health services research (HSR), specifically in the evaluation of the effectiveness and costs of health services and interventions; the evaluation of the needs and use of health services; and the development of instruments for HSR. Current research areas focus mainly on the evaluation of the health care process in cancer patients, focusing on breast and colon cancer screening, and the impact of the process on survival, specifically in the study of cancer screening personalization and on health care of long-term survivors.

Members

Andrea Buron Pust (Researcher)

Xavier Castells Oliveres (Researcher)

Mercè Comas Serrano (Researcher)

Francesc Cots Reguant (Researcher)

Laia Domingo Torrell (Researcher)

Francesc Assís Macià Guilà (Researcher)

Margarita Posso Rivera (Researcher)

Anna Renom Guiteras (Researcher)

Marta Román Expósito (Researcher)

Roser Terradas Robledo (Researcher)

Cristina Hernández Rodríguez (Technician)

Anna Jansana Riera (Technician)

Javier Louro Aldamiz-Echevarría (Technician)

Diego Juárez Rodríguez (Technician)

Pietro Chiarello (Research Assistant)

Irene Fernández Garcia (Research Assistant)

Priscilla Giraldo Matamoros (Researcher Assistant)

Esther Martínez Amor (Research Assistant)

 

Main Publications

• Rojas-Camayo J, Mejía CR, Callacondo D, Dawson JA, Posso M, Galván CA, Dávila-Arango N, Bravo EA, Loescher VY, Padilla-Deza MM, Rojas-Valero N, Velásquez-Chávez G, Clemente J, Alva-Lozada G, Quispe-Mauricio A, Bardalez S, Subhi R. Reference values for oxygen saturation from sea level to the highest human habitation in the Andes in acclimatised persons. Thorax 2018; 73(8): 776-778. IF 9.655. D1.

• Hofvind S, Sagstad S, Sebuødegård S, Chen Y, Román M, Lee CI. Interval Breast Cancer Rates and Histopathologic Tumor Characteristics after False-Positive Findings at Mammography in a Population-based Screening Program. Radiology 2018; 287(1): 58-67. IF 7.469. D1.

• Heijnsdijk EAM, Bangma CH, Borràs JM, de Carvalho TM, Castells X, Eklund M, Espinàs JA, Graefen M, Grönberg H, Lansdorp-Vogelaar I, van Leeuwen PJ, Nelen V, Recker F, Roobol MJ, Vandenbulcke P, de Koning HJ. Summary statement on screening for prostate cancer in Europe. Int J Cancer 2018; 142(4): 741-746. IF 7.36. Q1.

• Sala M, Domingo L, Louro J, Torá-Rocamora I, Baré M, Ferrer J, Carmona-Garcia MC, Barata T, Román M, Macià F, Castells X. Survival and disease-free survival by breast density and phenotype in interval breast cancers. Cancer Epidemiol Biomark & Prev 2018; 27(8): 908-916. IF 4.554.D1.

• Boldo E, Castelló A, Aragonés N, Amiano P, Pérez-Gómez B, Castaño-Vinyals G, Martín V, Guevara M, Urtiaga C, Dierssen-Sotos T, Fernández-Tardón G, Moreno V, Solans M, Peiró R, Capelo R, Gómez-Acebo I, Castilla J, Molina AJ, Castells X, Altzibar JM, Lope V, Kogevinas M, Romieu I, Pollán M, MCC-Spain researchers. Meat intake, methods and degrees of cooking and breast cancer risk in the MCC-Spain study. Maturitas 2018; 110: 62-70. IF 3.315. Q1.

• Puigpinós-Riera R, Graells-Sans A, Serral G, Continente X, Bargalló X, Domènech M, Espinosa-Bravo M, Grau J, Macià F, Manzanera R, Pla M, Quintana MJ, Sala M, Vidal E. Anxiety and depression in women with breast cancer: Social and clinical determinants and influence of the social network and social support (DAMA cohort). Cancer Epidemiol 2018; 55: 123-129. IF 2.888. Q1.

• Esteva M, Ruiz-Díaz M, Sánchez MA, Pértega-Díaz S, Pita-Fernández S, Macià F, Posso M, González-Luján L, Boscá-Wats MM, Leiva A, Ripoll J, DECCIRE GROUP. Emergency presentation of colorectal patients in Spain. PLoS ONE 2018; 13(10). 13(10): e0203556. IF 2.766. Q1.

Ongoing Research Projects

• Estimación del riesgo individual de cáncer de mama según factores de riesgo conocidos de la mujer para la personalización del cribado mamográfico poblacional

- Financing institution: Fondo de Investigación Sanitaria. ISCIII (PI17/00047)

- Period: from 2018 to 2020

- Principal investigator: Román Expósito, Marta

• La reconciliación después del error médico: la mediación como herramienta de ayuda a las víctimas

- Financing institution: Fundació Víctor Grífols i Lucas (BEC-2018-004)

- Period: from 2018 to 2019

- Principal investigador: Giraldo Matamoros, Priscila

• Uso de servicios de salud y comorbilidades en mujeres supervivientes de larga duración de cáncer

- Financing institution: Fondo de Investigación Sanitaria. ISCIII (PI16/00244)

- Period: from 2017 to 2019

- Principal investigator: Sala Serra, Maria

• Evaluación del patrón secuencial del nivel de sangre oculta en heces y su relación con el riesgo de neoplasia colorrectal: hacia la optimización del cribado poblacional de cáncer colorrectal

- Financing institution: Fondo de Investigación Sanitaria. ISCIII (PI16/00239)

- Period: from 2017 to 2019

- Principal investigador: Buron Pust, Andrea

• Lesiones benignas de mama, densidad mamaria y asociación con el riesgo de cáncer en una cohorte de mujeres cribadas

- Financing institution: Fondo de Investigación Sanitaria. ISCIII (PI15/00098)

- Period: from 2016 to 2019

- Principal investigator: Castells Oliveres, Xavier

 

Participation in Research Networks

• Research network on health services in chronical diseases – REDISSEC (Red de Investigación en Servicios de Salud en Enfermedades Crónicas)

- Fondo de Investigación Sanitaria. ISCIII. Subprograma RETICS (RD16/0001/0013)

- Principal investigator: Sala Serra, Maria

 

Group’s Recognitions

• Officially recognised as a consolidated research group by the Generalitat de Catalunya: Servei d'avaluació i epidemologia clínica. 2017-2020. Agència de Gestió d’Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca (SGR 213)

- Principal investigator: Castells Oliveres, Xavier

 

Theses

• Blanch, J. Avaluació de la taxa de detecció de càncer i del càncer d'interval en programes de detecció precoç del càncer de mama utilitzant mètodes longitudinals. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.

- Directors: Sala Serra, Maria; Rué, M.

- Date of defense: 14/03/2018

 

Other

• Margarita Posso Rivera. Cribado poblacional del cáncer de mama: aspectos relacionados con la efectividad y coste-efectividad. Prize for the Best Doctoral Thesis on Health Management and Health Economics. UAM-ASISA Foundation, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Date: 14/11/2018.

• Prize award Emilio Perea for the Best oral communication of a senior researcher at the XXXVI Scientific Meeting of the Spanish Society of Epidemiology. Lisbon (Portugal), September 11-14, 2018 to the communication: Evidencia sobre la eficacia de la personalización del cribado de cáncer de mama: una revisión sistemática, presented by Marta Román

• Julieta Politi. Prize 2018 from Sociedad Española de Epidemiologia for the Best Master Thesis on Epidemiology and Public Health “The role of detection mode and treatment in predicting breast cancer recurrence & complications for Ductal Carcinoma In Situ (DCIS) Breast Cancer”, directed by Maria Sala.

 

 

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