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Manuel Ridao-Lopez

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Estupinan-Romero F, Royo-Sierra S, Gonzalez-Galindo J, Ridao-Lopez M, Bernal-Delgado E
Gac Sanit . 2025 Mar; :102464. PMID: 40089425
Objective: Provide a method for reusing National Institute of Statistics (INE) socioeconomic data and reconstructing the Spanish National Health System primary care areas (PCA) from INE census tracts. Method: The...
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Angulo-Pueyo E, Comendeiro-Maaloe M, Estupinan-Romero F, Martinez-Lizaga N, Ridao-Lopez M, Gonzalez-Galindo J, et al.
Res Health Serv Reg . 2024 Aug; 1(1):5. PMID: 39177878
Since the early 2000's, the Atlas of Variations in Medical Practice in the Spanish National Health System (namely, Atlas VPM) has been analysing and informing unwarranted variations in health care...
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Comendeiro-Maaloe M, Ridao-Lopez M, Bernal-Delgado E, Sanso-Rossello A
PLoS One . 2024 Mar; 19(3):e0291991. PMID: 38437234
Introduction: The sustainability of public hospital financing in Spain is a recurring issue, given its representativeness in annual public healthcare budgets which must adapt to the macroeconomic challenges that influence...
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Gorgemans S, Comendeiro-Maaloe M, Ridao-Lopez M, Bernal-Delgado E
Int J Environ Res Public Health . 2023 Feb; 20(4). PMID: 36834085
WHO's Health Systems Performance Assessment framework suggests monitoring a set of dimensions. This study aims to jointly assess productivity and quality using a treatment-based approach, specifically analyzing knee and hip...
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Lopez-Vega M, Domenech-Fernandez J, Peiro S, Ridao-Lopez M
Clin Orthop Relat Res . 2022 Oct; 481(1):7-16. PMID: 36190489
Background: Several randomized clinical trials on the treatment of meniscal tears have shown that surgery is not superior to nonoperative treatment in middle-aged and older adults. However, clinical practice has...
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Bernal-Delgado E, Comendeiro-Maaloe M, Ridao-Lopez M, Sanso Rossello A
Health Policy . 2020 Feb; 124(4):389-396. PMID: 32063380
Aims: We sought to understand the evolution of Spanish public hospital expenditure by assessing its elasticity to volume versus price, controlling for need and case severity, from January 2003 to...
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Comendeiro-Maaloe M, Ridao-Lopez M, Gorgemans S, Bernal-Delgado E
Health Policy . 2019 Feb; 123(4):408-411. PMID: 30739817
In the statutory Spanish National Health System (SNHS), the role of public provision is prominent. Nonetheless, since the inception of the SNHS, Regional Health Authorities have also purchased hospital care...
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Comendeiro-Maaloe M, Ridao-Lopez M, Gorgemans S, Bernal-Delgado E
Health Policy . 2018 Dec; 123(4):412-418. PMID: 30554791
Background: Recently, the once archetype of the public private partnership (PPP) in the Spanish National Health System (SNHS), namely the Alzira's Model, has come to an end. Advocates defended the...
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Bernal-Delgado E, Garcia-Armesto S, Oliva J, Sanchez Martinez F, Repullo J, Pena-Longobardo L, et al.
Health Syst Transit . 2018 Oct; 20(2):1-179. PMID: 30277216
This analysis of the Spanish health system reviews recent developments in organization and governance, health financing, health care provision, health reforms and health system performance. Overall health status continues to...
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Ridao-Lopez M, Comendeiro-Maaloe M, Martinez-Lizaga N, Bernal-Delgado E
BMC Health Serv Res . 2018 Sep; 18(1):696. PMID: 30200956
Background: In Spain, hospital expenditure represents the biggest share of overall public healthcare expenditure, the most important welfare system directly run by the Autonomous Communities (ACs). Since 2001, public healthcare...