Continuity of care in patients after hip fracture surgery
Abstract
Objective: To assess whether a patient after a hip fracture surgery follows a continuity of care or not; to know how other factors affect.
Design: This is a quantitative study
Population: Hospitalized people in the orthopaedic floor at the General Hospital Juan Ramón Jiménez (Huelva) who have undergone hip fracture surgery, 48 patients.
Data recording technique: Direct observation, interviews and telephone surveys.
Analysis of the data: A SPSS program was used.
Variables: Age, sex, marital status, socioeconomic level, educational level, hospital, care personalization, chronic programmes and “Continuity of care”, it was measured by: demand, communication and valuation.
Results: Regarding the demand factor, the 41, 46% of the patients neither demand the care nor are warned by the professionals as far as the Continuity of Care report did not arrive; moreover, in the 9, 76% of the studied cases, the report arrived late and the 29, 27% of the patients required the care after having been discharged. Only the 19, 51% of the patients are warned by the professionals after having received the report correctly. With regard to the Communication and Valuation: Communication among the professionals exists in the 70% of the patients and they have nursery valuation. There is a connection between the continuity of care and the chronic programs (p=0,004)
Conclusions: A continuity of care does not exist due to the inadequate intercommunication among the welfare level. We can establish connections between the dependent variable and the chronic program
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