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Albert Alonso

Fundació de Recerca Clínic Barcelona-Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques Agustí Pi i Sunyer

Albert Alonso

Albert Alonso is a senior researcher at the Clinic Barcelona Research Foundation (FRCB-IDIBAPS) and currently coordinates the EU-funded Laurel project (Actionable policies for integrated long-term care; https://laurelproject.eu/)
Albert holds MD and PhD degrees in Medicine and a postgraduate diploma in Information Systems’ Management and Organisation. Regular lecturer in undergraduate and postgraduate courses, he is senior associate at the International Foundation for Integrated Care (IFIC) having hold the positions of vice-chair and chair of IFIC.

FURTHER INFORMATION

Countries Spain; Spain (Catalonia);
Topics Care integration/ coordination; Healthcare access in LTC; Home/domiciliary care; New models of care; Person-centered care; Research gaps and priorities in LTC;
Methods Case studies; Co-production methods; Delphi surveys; Feasibility studies; Focus groups; Implementation science; Interviews; Literature reviews and synthesis; Mixed methods; Pilot study; Qualitative studies; Scoping reviews; Systematic Review; Usability study;
Role Research;
Interest Groups Integrated Long-Term Care; Long-Term Care in Spain;
Research interests

Albert’s work focuses on the definition, evaluation and implementation of new models for the provision of health services, with special emphasis on integrated care models and long-term care. He has participated in numerous R & D projects that have explored, deployed and evaluated delivery of care, often using information technology.
Key publications

• Pascual-Saldaña H, Masip-Bruin X, Asensio A, Alonso A, Blanco I. Innovative Predictive Approach towards a Personalized Oxygen Dosing System. Sensors (Basel). 2024 Jan 24;24(3):764. doi: 10.3390/s24030764. PMID: 38339481; PMCID: PMC10857553.
• Mair A, Alonso A. Polypharmacy and Integrated Care. In: Amelung V, Stein V, Suter E, Goodwin N, Nolte E, Balicer R, editors. Handbook Integrated Care [Internet]. Second. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2021. p. 453–77. Available from: https://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-030-69262-9_27
• Risco E, Sauch G, Albero A, Acar-Denizli N, Zabalegui A, Kostov B, et al. Spanish Validation of the “User Reported Measure of Care Coordination” Questionnaire for Older People with Complex, Chronic Conditions. Int J Environ Res Public Health [Internet]. 2020 Sep 11 [cited 2020 Sep 16];17(18):6608. Available from: https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/17/18/6608
• Baltaxe E, Cano I, Herranz C, Barberan-Garcia A, Hernandez C, Alonso A, et al. Evaluation of integrated care services in Catalonia: population-based and service-based real-life deployment protocols. BMC Health Serv Res [Internet]. 2019 Jun;19(1):370. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-019-4174-2
• Cash-Gibson L, Tigova O, Alonso A, Binkley G, Rosenmöller M. Project INTEGRATE: Developing a Framework to Guide Design, Implementation and Evaluation of People-centred Integrated Care Processes. Int J Integr Care [Internet]. 2019 Feb 1;19(1). Available from: http://www.ijic.org/articles/10.5334/ijic.4178/
• McIntosh J, Alonso A, MacLure K, Stewart D, Kempen T, Mair A, et al. A case study of polypharmacy management in nine European countries: Implications for change management and implementation. PLoS One. 2018;13(4).
• Hernández C, Aibar J, Seijas N, Puig I, Alonso A, Garcia-Aymerich J, et al. Implementation of Home Hospitalization and Early Discharge as an Integrated Care Service: A Ten Years Pragmatic Assessment. Int J Integr Care [Internet]. 2018 May 16;18(0):12. Available from: https://www.ijic.org/article/10.5334/ijic.3431/
• Marceglia S, Rigby M, Alonso A, Keeling D, Kubitschke L, Pozzi G. DEDICATE: proposal for a conceptual framework to develop dementia-friendly integrated eCare support. Biomed Eng Online [Internet]. 2018 Dec 12;17(1):121. Available from: https://biomedical-engineering-online.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12938-018-0552-y
• McIntosh J, Alonso A, Codina C, MacLure K, Mair A, Stewart D. Polypharmacy and Integrated Care: Identifying synergies in implementation. Int J Integr Care. 2017;17(5):77.
• Gennimata D, Kampolis CF, Vontetsianos T, Mcintosh J, Codina C, Alonso A, et al. Medication review and polypharmacy management in the hospital setting. The cases of Greece and Catalonia. Int J Integr Care. 2017; 17(5):550.
• Stewart D, Gibson-Smith K, MacLure K, Mair A, Alonso A, Codina C, et al. A modified Delphi study to determine the level of consensus across the European Union on the structures, processes and desired outcomes of the management of polypharmacy in older people. PLoS One. 2017; 12(11).
• Masip-Bruin X, Marin-Tordera E, Gomez A, Barbosa V, Alonso A. Will it be cloud or will it be fog? F2C, A novel flagship computing paradigm for highly demanding services. In: FTC 2016 – Proceedings of Future Technologies Conference [Internet]. IEEE; 2017. p. 1129–36. Available from: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7821744/
• Stewart D, Mair A, Wilson M, Kardas P, Lewek P, Alonso A, et al. Guidance to manage inappropriate polypharmacy in older people: systematic review and future developments. Expert Opin Drug Saf [Internet]. 2017 Nov 25;16(2):203–13. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14740338.2017.1265503
• Mair A, Fernandez-Llimos F, Alonso A, Harrison C, Hurding S, Kempen T, et al. Polypharmacy Management by 2030: a patient safety challenge 2nd edition [Internet]. Coimbra; 2017. 64 p. Available from: https://www.isimpathy.eu/downloads/Polypharmacy-Handbook-2nd-Edition.pdf
• Masip-Bruin X, Marin-Tordera E, Alonso A, Garcia J. Fog-to-cloud Computing (F2C): The key technology enabler for dependable e-health services deployment. In: 2016 Mediterranean Ad Hoc Networking Workshop, Med-Hoc-Net 2016 – 15th IFIP MEDHOCNET 2016. 2016.
• McIntosh J, Alonso A, Codina C, Mair A. Polypharmacy management: an under recognized public health issue. Eur J Public Health. 2016;26(suppl_1).
• Mair A, McIntosh J, Codina C, Molist N, Alonso A. Polypharmacy and Adherence: Key Components of Integrated Care Findings from the SIMPATHY Project. Int J Integr Care. 2016;16(6):190.
• McIntosh JA, Alonso A, Codina C. Polypharmacy and Adherence: Key Components of Integrated Care, The case of Catalonia. Int J Integr Care. 2016;16(6):32.