The ICS, the IDIAP Jordi Gol and the Lleida Provincial Council present the first Call for Grants for Research Projects in Primary Care - Lleida 2021

The objective of these grants, 1st edition PICARD Grants, is to encourage the carrying out of research projects with the intention of improving the quality of research in the Field of Primary Health Care in Lleida by giving support to researchers.

Reducing the consumption of antibiotics in nursing homes, key to reducing resistance to antimicrobials

According to the analysis of the consortium of organizations that participate in the European Happy Patient project, and which investigates mechanisms that allow the inappropriate consumption of antibiotics to be reduced by 40% in those countries that have been marked as a priority by the European Commission: Spain, France, Lithuania, Poland and Greece, nursing homes are at the core of the AMR problem.

Taking antibiotics the 2 years before getting Covid-19 increases the probability of manifesting the virus with severity by 12%

A new IDIAPJGol study analyzes the relationship between the consumption of antibiotics and the severity of Covid-19 in 280,679 patients diagnosed with coronavirus between March and June 2020 in Catalonia. Among all the individuals who received antibiotics, those who took antibiotics in the two months prior to infection had 41% more severe Covid-19.

The IDIAPJGol is part of DIPEx international

 Anna Berenguera, coordinator of the Transversal Research Unit of IDIAPJGol, is part of the Executive Committee of DIPEx Spain.

We sign a research collaboration agreement with the Maresme and La Selva Health Corporation

The objective is to jointly develop programs and activities aimed at promoting clinical, epidemiological and health services research.

The main milestones of 2020 in the IDIAPJGol

The IDIAPJGol Annual Report is now available, in digital format to facilitate reading and understanding of the most important data for 2020.