COMUNIDAD AUTÓNOMA
Comunidad de Madrid
Nodo: Madrid
CENTER:
Instituto de Salud Carlos III
MAIN RESEARCHER:
Antonio Sarria Santamera
GROUP CODE:
RD16/0001/0016
CONTACT ADDRESS:
Name
Institute of Health Carlos III (ISCIII)/ Madrid Node
Contact
Coordinator: Dr. Antonio Sarria Santamera
Agencia de Evaluación de Tecnologías Sanitarias. Instituto
de Salud Carlos III
C/ Monforte de Lemos 5. Pabellón 4
Madrid 28029. España
Tel: +34 918222020
Fax: + 34 913877841
Email: asarria@isciii.es
Description of the ISCIII group
The ISCIII group is coordinated by Dr. Antonio Sarria
Santamera (MD, PhD) and is formed by 12 researchers
(anthropologists, nurses, physicians, psychologists, engineers)
from the National School of Public Health, the Agency for Health
Technology Assessment, the Research Unit in Health Care and the
Telemedicine Unit, with extensive experience in collaboration with
other scientific networks.
The group has expertise both in primary and specialized care settings with active research lines in health-related quality of life and patient-reported outcomes, assessing health outcomes and effectiveness, measuring health services utilization and quality of care, ageing, fragility and dependency, neurodegenerative diseases, cardiovascular diseases and risk factors, care delivery models and working environments, systematic reviews and meta-analysis, economic evaluation, qualitative research and patients´ perspective, and telemedicine.
Since 2009 the group has participated in 23 projects, 7 funded by the EU, and 10 by the Spanish national health research programme. The group members are PI of 8 grants. From 2009, they have co-authored 67 papers, of which 30 are in the 1st or 2nd quartiles. The group has collaborated previously with REDISSEC groups, 3 , 4 and 5.
Two relevant publications
1) Imaz I, Zegarra P, González-Enríquez J et al. Poor
bisphophonate adherence for treatment of osteopororosis increases
fracture risk. Systematic review and meta-analysis Osteoporosis
International 2010; 21 (11): 1943-51. Q1. FI: 4,859.;
2) Forjaz MJ, Rodriguez-Blázquez C, Martinez-Martin P et
al. Rasch analysis of the hospital anxiety and depression
scale in Parkinson's disease. Mov Disord 2009; 24(4):526-32. Q1.
FI: 4,48.
Two main projects
1) Quality and Cost of Primary Care in Europe (EUPRIMECARE).
UE - 7º Programa Marco. Project leader: Antonio Sarria. Budget:
760.305,60 €. Project Reference 241595;
2) Calidad de vida en personas con demencia
institucionalizadas: evaluación, características y factores
asociados. Fundación CIEN-Instituto de Salud Carlos III. PI 017/09.
IP: Joao Forjaz. Budget: 70.000 €.
Main transfer product
Primary Care Follow up Study and use of the data base from
the primary care system (OMI and AP-Madrid).