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Diversos autors han analitzat els voluminosos tractats de Francesc Eiximenis, especialment pel que fa a matèries relacionades amb la teologia moral, però també sobre altres temes, com la guerra i la pau, l’astrologia, el govern, la cuina i el menjar, i d’altres. En aquest article ens proposem apropar-nos a com Eiximenis tracta el tema dels hospitals, medicina, salut i malaltia. Eiximenis es preocupava de les necessitats del poble que sofria tot tipus de malalties; a part d’haver viscut durant diverses epidèmies, que provocà moltes morts a la península, també suggerí als jurats de València un bon sistema d’hospitals i on s’haurien de construir, i també els cridà l’atenció respecte de les deficiències sanitàries de la ciutat.

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The development of a legal and regulatory framework to establish the right of citizens to accurate and sufficient information about their own illnesses and health education requires that their information needs be considered from the double perspective of patient education and consumer health. The objective of this article is to show the contribution of librarians in converting to reality this right, based on informational literacy in medical and health information resulting from the optimal use of information resources available in public and medical libraries and the expertise of library professionals.

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Background: today, the university hospital is not only a teaching and care center, but also a fundamental and irreplaceable nucleus of knowledge production in the health area. The final results of such research, both health and economic, ensure that the care process offered can be increasingly based on scientific evidence. Aim: to characterize the communication patterns and impact of scientific production in Cuban hospitals.Methods: a bibliometric study was conducted on the articles that presented authorship with affiliation to Cuban hospitals, published in journals indexed in Scopus in the period between 1996 and 2016. Co-occurrence matrices for the analysis of social networks between authors and terms were analyzed. Results: 6420 documents were identified, of which 95.90 % (6 157 documents) were citable, especially the original articles with 85.59 %. Of the publications, 65.58% were concentrated in 23 national journals, the remaining 34.42% were published in 136 foreign journals. The most productive institutions were identified, headed by the Clinical Surgical Hospital "Hermanos Ameijeiras" with 994 documents. A total of 38941 citations were accumulated, with an h-index of 80.Conclusions: Cuban hospital scientific production was mainly concentrated in local journals, sustained growth both in productivity indicators and in visibility, the latter mainly at the expense of articles in English.

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The structures of hospitals have evolved to make them centre on patients and their pathologies, with care procedures that are both interprofessional and interorganisational. This has given rise to work environments made up of teams obliged to collaborate in their problem-solving, with an essential focus on proper collaborative information behaviour (CIB). The aim was to study this behaviour in a clinical service of a hospital in relation to two aspects: information culture (IC) and the exchange of information. This entailed designing a two-part descriptive study. The first step was to administer a survey based on the information orientation model to know more about the service’s IC. The second phase focussed on the exchange of information from the perspective of an analysis of social networks. The main characteristic of IC was its proactive nature, especially in the use of information to improve one’s own work (mean = 4.58) and to respond to changes and new developments relating to work (mean = 4.18). The factor that least characterised IC was control, particularly in relation to knowledge of the objective of the activity itself (mean = 2.67) and the dispersion of information about hospital processes (mean = 2.64). On social networks, factors contrary to an interprofessional CIB were identified, such as homophily and low reciprocity in terms of relationships. In practice, the results identified a need to reinforce the perception of information as a resource, the proper use of which benefits job performance at both an individual and group level. A need to reinforce flows of internal hospital-related information was likewise evident. From a theoretical and methodological point of view, a useful tool is made available for diagnosing the collaborative information behaviour of an organisation and designing strategies to improve it.