Luis Gaite Pindado
HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO MARQUES DE VALDECILLA
Sant Pau Biomedical Research Institute
Spain
Biography
Doctor of Medicine and Surgery from the University of Cantabria, he has been working in the Psychiatric Research Unit of Cantabria (UIPC) since 1992, a WHO Collaborating Center accredited for Research and Teaching in Mental Health for more than 20 years . His research activity has been focused mainly on the application of qualitative research techniques in the field of mental health, evaluation of mental health services, development of mental health assessment instruments, follow-up studies in schizophrenia, rare diseases, disability, health-related quality of life assessment in the pediatric age and methodology of cultural adaptation of classification systems of the World Health Organization (WHO).
Research Interest
Psychiatry
Publications
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Guerra Diez JL1, Gaite Pindado L2, Ãlvarez Ãlvarez C3, Leonardo Cabello MT3, Ãlvarez Granda L4, Cabero Pérez MJ5. Influence of demographic changes on the number of visits to hospital emergency departments: 13 years experience. An Pediatr (Barc). 2017 Aug 24. pii: S1695-4033(17)30287-4.
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Gaite L1, GarcÃa Fuentes M, González Lamuño D, Alvarez J. Needs in rare diseases during paediatric age. An Sist Sanit Navar. 2008;31 Suppl 2:165-75.
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Gaite L1, Vázquez-Barquero JL, Borra C, Ballesteros J, Schene A, Welcher B, Thornicroft G, Becker T, Ruggeri M, Herrán A; EPSILON Study Group. Quality of life in patients with schizophrenia in five European countries: the EPSILON study. Acta Psychiatr Scand. 2002 Apr;105(4):283-92.
