PREVENTIVE medicine is evolving toward increasingly personalised models.
Unlike standard checkups, which apply the same tests to large population groups, individualised programmes allow each examination to be tailored to the specific characteristics and needs of each person.
With this philosophy in mind, Quirónsalud Marbella Hospital has launched its new Personalised Checkup Service, coordinated by the Internal Medicine team.
According to Dr. Javier Moreno, head of the Internal Medicine Department, the goal is to offer a comprehensive health assessment based on scientific evidence and tailored to factors such as age, gender, family history, lifestyle, and each patient’s specific concerns.
To this end, the process begins with an initial consultation with an internal medicine specialist, who designs the most appropriate screening program for each individual case.
Beyond the Conventional Checkup
Specialists point out that performing the same tests on all patients is not always helpful: “We know that not every indiscriminate routine checkup is necessarily helpful”, Moreno said.
“We even know that, if poorly targeted, checkups can have adverse effects on the individual by generating confusing information – such as false positives or negatives – and often causing anxiety and leading to unnecessary invasive tests”.
For this reason, modern preventive medicine focuses on selecting only those tests that provide value based on the individual’s risk profile.
A health screening can be specifically geared toward the prevention and early detection of cardiovascular, metabolic, oncological, or infectious diseases, among others, when there is a history or circumstances that warrant it.
“As internists, we are specialists in treating sick people as a whole, in a comprehensive manner – whether they have one, two, or multiple health issues – and always taking their individuality into account”, Moreno said.
“We do not treat diseases; we treat sick people”.
This approach allows us to design prevention programmes tailored to each situation.
Once the prevention strategy is defined, a care pathway is activated that systematically integrates the consultations, examinations, and diagnostic tests necessary for each patient.
All tests in one day and results in four days
The programme allows patients to complete all tests in a single day thanks to coordination among specialties and the availability of advanced diagnostic technology within the hospital itself, enabling patients to go through the entire process quickly and efficiently.
Subsequently, the same internal medicine specialist who designed the checkup interprets the results and provides recommendations within approximately four days.
Early Detection as a Tool for Better Health
Scientific evidence shows that addressing modifiable risk factors and detecting certain conditions before symptoms appear significantly improves patients’ prognosis and quality of life.
“Today we know that well-designed, personalized checkups conducted at well-established intervals reduce the risk of disease and its severity should it occur”, Moreno explained.
In this regard, check-ups facilitate the early detection of diseases that may remain asymptomatic for years, such as high blood pressure, diabetes, or certain types of cancer.
The service is aimed both at healthy individuals who wish to better understand their health status and take preventive measures, and at patients with a family history or specific risk factors who may benefit from closer monitoring.
“We can take proactive steps and, through lifestyle changes and appropriate treatments, avoid that serious ‘inherited’ health problem we would otherwise have been destined to face”, concludes Dr. Moreno.
Quirónsalud in Andalucia
The Quirónsalud Group in Andalucia currently operates eight hospitals located in the cities of Malaga, Marbella, Los Barrios (Cadiz), three in Sevilla (Sagrado Corazon, Infanta Luisa, and Materno-Infantil), Cordoba, and Huelva, as well as two surgical day hospitals in Sevilla and Malaga and 22 specialty and diagnostic medical centers; this positions it as the leading private hospital provider in this autonomous community.
About Quirónsalud
Quirónsalud is the leading healthcare group in Spain and, together with its parent company Fresenius-Helios, also in Europe. In addition to its operations in Spain, Quirónsalud also has a presence in Latin America. Collectively, it employs more than 50,000 professionals across more than 180 healthcare centers, including 57 hospitals with over 8,000 hospital beds. It is equipped with state-of-the-art technology and boasts a large team of highly specialized professionals of international renown. Its facilities include the Fundación Jiménez Díaz University Hospital, Teknon Medical Center, Ruber Internacional, Quirónsalud Madrid University Hospital, Quirónsalud Barcelona Hospital, Dexeus University Hospital, Policlínica Gipuzkoa, General University Hospital of Catalonia, Quirónsalud Sagrado Corazón Hospital, and others.
The Group is committed to promoting education (eleven of its hospitals are university hospitals) and medical-scientific research (it operates the FJD Health Research Institute, accredited by the Ministry of Science and Innovation).
Furthermore, its healthcare services are organized into cross-functional units and networks that enable the Group to optimize the collective experience gained across its various centers and facilitate the clinical translation of its research. Currently, Quirónsalud is conducting numerous research projects throughout Spain, and many of its centers are at the forefront of this field, serving as pioneers in various specialties such as oncology, cardiology, endocrinology, gynecology, and neurology, among others.
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www.quironsalud.com/marbella or call +34 952 774 200
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