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16 November, 2022
HER2DX, one of the best inventions of 2022 according to TIME magazine
Every year, TIME draws up a list of the best inventions, those that according to the prestigious magazine “make the world better, smarter and even more fun”. In the 2022 ranking, they have included, in the “Medical Care” category, HER2DX, a genomic test that predicts survival and the possibility of responding to treatments in HER2-positive breast cancer patients in their earliest stages, the first genomic test created worldwide for this disease.
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4 November, 2022
barnaclínic+ once again supports the Annual Conference of Nursing Management
As usual around these dates, the Nursing Department of the Clínic Barcelona has once again held its Annual Conference for Professionals, which on this occasion reached its fifteenth edition. With a hybrid format, the event had more than 800 participants (in person and via streaming) who were able to learn about the scientific work of management professionals, as well as create an atmosphere for debate among the attendees. Within the framework of this celebration, the Innovative Capsules Awards were presented, whose finalists were presented by Dr Marta Farré, dermatology outpatient nurse. These are awards aimed at all those working groups of the Hospital Clínic that have developed some innovative idea giving value to healthcare practice within the institution and whose financial endowment is provided by barnaclínic+.
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21 October, 2022
The Clínic once again ranks in the top 3 of the public hospitals with the best reputation in Spain
As is customary at this time, the results of the Health Reputation Monitor (MRS) have already been published, a ranking that Merco has been preparing for eight years. And for yet another year, the Clínic Barcelona has been one of the most outstanding centres, managing to position itself once again as the second-best public hospital in Spain and the first in Catalonia. It is the eighth consecutive year that the Clínic has achieved second place in the ranking. The best public hospital in Spain has once again been the Hospital Universitario La Paz in Madrid and the top three are completed by the Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón.
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11 October, 2022
Nine services of the Clínic are among the best in the world in the ‘World’s Best Specialised Hospitals’ of 2023
Newsweek magazine in collaboration with the statistical portal Statista Inc. publishes each year a ranking of the best hospitals in the world by speciality, the ‘World’s Best Specialised Hospitals 2023’. As usual, the Barcelona Clínic Group has stood out as one of the best hospitals in the world and our country, and has achieved outstanding positions in nine of the eleven categories that were analysed this year. The best-positioned department was Urology, led by Dr Antonio Alcaraz, who was also a novelty in this edition’s ranking. In this way, the Clinical Institute of Nephrology and Urology (ICNU) has achieved the 14th position in the ranking, also being the second-best service in Spain, only behind the La Paz University Hospital in Madrid.
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12 September, 2022
An innovative new system guides staff during sample collection
To minimize possible errors in taking samples from patients and also guaranteeing their traceability, the Hospital Clínic Group has begun to use an innovative system: Protube. This system helps the nursing staff throughout the process of obtaining samples, from the unequivocal identification of the patient by reading a bar code to the selection of containers and the order of filling, in addition to allowing the traceability of samples in real-time.
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21 July, 2022
The Hospital Clínic performs the second uterus transplant in Spain
A year and a half after performing the first uterus transplant in Spain, the Hospital Clínic performed this operation again last April. A mother donated her uterus so that her daughter could become pregnant in an intervention led by Dr Francisco Carmona, head of the Hospital Clínic Gynaecology Service and barnaclínic+ gynaecological surgeon, and Dr Antonio Alcaraz, head of the Service of Urology and Kidney Transplantation at Hospital Clínic and urological and transplant surgeon at barnaclínic+.
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20 July, 2022
Sabàtics, an initiative to help in the training of medical professionals
Medical training is something that never stops. Continuous innovation and research make it necessary for medical professionals to dedicate part of their time to maintaining and improving their professional competence, to adapt to the new demands and requirements that are generated by the evolution of medicine, the health system and society in general. Precisely thinking of helping in this continuous medical training, the Hospital Clínic de Barcelona created grants in the 1980s to carry out this training in centres of excellence abroad, the ‘Sabàtics Permits’. Later, in 2015, barnaclínic+ joined this initiative allowing more training time to be financed.
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12 July, 2022
A new surgical technique improves the extraction of kidney stones
Kidney stones are a disease that consist of the formation of calcium or stones in the kidneys or the urinary tracts. When this calcium is small, it’s possible for the patient to extract them naturally. But when they exceed a certain size, it’s suitable to carry out a medical-surgical treatment, as they can get stuck in the urinary tracts during their expulsion, blocking the flow of urine and causing great pain and complications. By betting on innovation, something that characterises the Hospital Clínic Group, the centre has incorporated into its services a novel technique for the treatment of kidney stones. This way, it has become the first hospital in Spain and the south of Europe to use and thereby improve the results of kidney stone extraction with the current Percutaneous Nephrolithotomy or NLP.
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28 June, 2022
Femoroplasty, a pioneering innovation to settle problems with a hip-prosthetic
Hospital Clínic is a pioneer in Spain in the use of femoroplasty, an innovative technique in which sanitary cement is injected around the hip-prosthetic, inside the femur, to recover stability and so achieve an improvement in pain and recover the patient’s mobility. Dr. Jenaro Fernández-Valencia, head of the Hip Section of the Orthopaedic and Traumatology Surgery Service at Hospital Clínic de Barcelona and professional at barnaclínic+, is one of the people in charge of the design of the protocol and introduction of this technique.
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29 April, 2022
barnaclínic+ launches its Dermatological Diagnosis Unit
Skin cancer is the most frequent tumour and it is estimated that 20% of people will develop it throughout their lives. In Spain alone, this disease affects 300 people out of 100.000 each year. Malignant melanoma, on the other hand, is a tumour that is caused by an abnormal growth of some skin cells, whose incidence in recent years is possibly increasing in relation to sun exposure habits. Because these skin tumours appear externally, they are easier to detect and if they are diagnosed in the early stages, they have a high chance of cure. Due to this importance of early diagnosis, barnaclínic+ has launched its Dermatological Diagnosis Unit.
