Vall d'Hebron Barcelona Hospital Campus
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Learning Resources
Training: Training stays for specialists from hospitals in Spain
Training: Training stays for specialists from foreign hospitals
Training: Vocational Training
Training: The residence in Vall d'Hebron
Courses: Continuing Education
Primary purpose: To provide comprehensive and innovative training for healthcare professionals, both internal and external, while promoting knowledge management and excellence in teaching methodologies. Offer a wide range of courses, such as conferences, workshops, and support structures for knowledge management.
Target audience: Professionals in the healthcare field.
Access Information: Information [1].
Courses: Degrees
Primary purpose: To provide competencies and medical training that cater to the evolving demands of society, including integration into a research environment. Offer degree courses in medicine, biomedical sciences, nursing, physiotherapy, dietetics and human nutrition, and occupational therapy.
Target audience: Students who want to complete a degree in the areas of health.
Access Information: Information [2].
Courses: Masters and Postgraduates
Primary purpose: To provide specialized and in-depth training in various biomedical fields, including translational research, neuroimmunology, and nursing, with the aim of developing excellent researchers and specialists capable of addressing the evolving demands of healthcare and contributing to medical advancements and patient care.
Target audience: Researches, nurses and students of healthcare fields.
Access Information: Information [3].
Novel Therapies and Diagnostic Methods
Diagnostics
| Radiology | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Type | Name | Availibility | Uses per year |
| Machine | CT scanners | Yes | |
| Machine | MRI (specify the strength and field of the techniques) | Yes | |
| Machine | Mammography (please specify analogic mammography or digital) | Yes | |
| Machine | Digitalised imaging (PACS) | Yes | |
| Machine | Ultrasound | Yes | |
| Machine | Gamma Camera | Yes | |
| Technique | Stereostatic biopsy | Yes | |
| Technique | Ultrasound guided biopsy | Yes | |
| Technique | Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) | Yes | |
| Technique | CT guided biopsis | Yes | |
| Technique | E/S Fine-needle biopsy | Yes | |
| Technique | Angiography | Yes | |
| Nuclear Medicine | |||
| Type | Name | Availibility | Uses per year |
| Machine | Pet Scan | Yes | |
| Machine | PET CT | Yes | |
| Machine | SPECT | Yes | |
| Machine | SPECT CT | Yes | |
| Technique | Bone scintigraphy | Yes | |
| Pathology | |||
| Type | Name | Availibility | Uses per year |
| Machine | Electron microscopy | Yes | |
| Facility | Cytology laboratory | Yes | |
| Technique | Comparative Genomic Hybridization (CGH) | Yes | |
| Technique | PCR (Polymerase Chain Reaction) | Yes | |
| Technique | Cytometry | Yes | |
| Technique | Cytogenetics | Yes | |
| Pathology: Molecular Tests | |||
| Type | Name | Availibility | Uses per year |
| Technique | HER2 status | Yes | |
| Others | |||
| Type | Name | Availibility | Uses per year |
| Technique | Bronchoscopy | Yes | |
| Technique | Colposcopy | Yes | |
| Technique | Colonoscopy | Yes | |
| Technique | Hysteroscopy | Yes |
Treatment
| Surgical Oncology | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Type | Name | Availibility | Uses per year |
| Specialist | Breast surgery | Yes | |
| Specialist | Urological surgery | Yes | |
| Specialist | Thoracic surgery | Yes | |
| Specialist | Digestive surgery | Yes | |
| Specialist | Neurosurgery | Yes | |
| Specialist | Gynaecological surgery | Yes | |
| Specialist | Orthopaedic surgery | Yes | |
| Specialist | Oncoplastic surgery | Yes | |
| Specialist | Paediatric surgery | Yes | |
| Specialist | ENT surgery | Yes | |
| Specialist | Sarcoma surgery | Yes | |
| Technique | Video-assisted thoracoscopy | Yes | |
| Technique | Robotic surgery | Yes | |
| Radiotherapy | |||
| Type | Name | Availibility | Uses per year |
| Machine | Linear accelerators | Yes | |
| Machine | Cobalt Units | Yes | |
| Machine | Brachytherapy unit | Yes | |
| Technique | Stereotactic radiotherapy | Yes | |
| Technique | Chemoembolization | Yes | |
| Technique | Total Body Irradiation (TBI) | Yes | |
| Technique | 3D conformal radiotherapy | Yes | |
| Technique | Radiosurgery | Yes | |
| Technique | CT planning | Yes | |
| Hemato-Oncology / Bone Marrow Transplants | |||
| Type | Name | Availibility | Uses per year |
| Technique | Allogenic stem cell transplants | Yes | |
| Technique | Autologous stem cell transplants | Yes | |
| Specialists | |||
| Type | Name | Availibility | Uses per year |
| Specialist | Medical oncologist | Yes | |
| Specialist | Physician specialised in pain treatment | Yes | |
| Specialist | Neurologist | Yes | |
| Specialist | Lung physician | Yes | |
| Specialist | Radiotherapist | Yes | |
| Specialist | Psychologist or Psychotherapist | Yes | |
| Specialist | Psychiatrist | Yes | |
| Specialist | Pharmacist | Yes | |
| Specialist | Social worker | Yes | |
| Specialist | Spiritual care | Yes | |
| Specialist | Physiotherapist | Yes | |
| Specialist | Dietitian | Yes | |
| Others | |||
| Type | Name | Availibility | Uses per year |
| Technique | Rigid Bronchoscopy | Yes | |
| Facility | Clinical Trial Center | Yes |
Prevention
| Screening and Others | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Type | Name | Availibility | Uses per year |
| Facility | Smoking detoxification center | Yes |
Palliative Care
| Others | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Type | Name | Availibility | Uses per year |
| Facility | Home palliative care availability | Yes |
Associations List
Primary purpose: The website provides a list of the active patient associations in the hospital.
Access Information: Information [4].
Resource: School in the Hospital
Primary purpose: To provide educational support and continuity to children and adolescents undergoing medium and long-term hospitalization to minimize the impact on their education.
Access Information: Information [5].
Facility: cyber@ula
Primary purpose: To provide a space for volunteers, associations, and parents to organize and collaborate on various activities for admitted children, such as games, workshops, magic shows, and storytelling.
Access Information: Information [6].
Facility: Barcelona Space
Primary purpose: To provide a leisure area with a Barça theme for hospitalized children, offering recreational activities and entertainment to make their hospital stay more enjoyable.
Access Information: Information [7].
Tool: Scankids VH
Primary purpose: To use gamification and 3D animations to prepare and inform children between the ages of 6 and 12 for diagnostic imaging tests at Vall d'Hebron University Hospital in a playful and informative manner, guided by their parents, caregivers, and health professionals.
Access Information: Information [8].
EHDEN Participation
The Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron is part of the EHDEN Network of Data Partners.
The European Health Data and Evidence Network (EHDEN) aims to standardize European health data using OMOP-CDM to facilitate research. The project creates a federated network of data sources for easy access by researchers and policymakers. Its goal is to improve healthcare outcomes through better data quality and interoperability.
Primary purpose: To integrate and store comprehensive healthcare data from both inpatient and outpatient visits for facilitating patient care and potential research.
Type of information: The database combines information from Vall d’Hebron's data lake, web service for clinical variables, and XML-extracted notes, serving as a resource for both direct and transferred patient care.
Data level: Regional level.
Number of records: 1,431,531 patients.
Data range: 1955 onwards.
Open Data Access: Data is not publicly available. Instructions for data request [9].
Contact information: Contact [10].
