Characterization of home admissions in a health area in the Marianao Municipality
Abstract
We studied 400 patients of the sanitary Work Group # 2 Polyclinic "Dr. Carlos J. Finlay Marianao Municipality during the year 2008. The work was aimed at contributing to the knowledge of the main characteristics of home admissions by meeting the general guidelines and professional ethics, demonstrating that it constitutes the main tool of the binomial nurse – family doctor to ensure comprehensive care for patients and family. We performed a retrospective descriptive study, emphasizing the results in the statistical tables expressed in absolute and relative numbers with one and two entries. The age groups with the highest incidence was 40-59 years with 38.5% and over 60 years with 24.7%. Females predominated in 65.0%. The most frequent admissions were due to high blood pressure with a 30.25%, the 24.75% for bronchial asthma and acute respiratory infections with 12.75%. The majority 56.75% had a medium-length stay. 97.75% of cases recovered satisfactorily, demonstrating the self-sacrificing job of the doctor and nurse.
Downloads
The works published in this magazine are subject to the following terms:
1. The Publications Service of the University of Murcia (the publisher) preserves the copyright of the published works, and encourages and allows the reuse of the works under the license for use stated in point 2.
© Servicio de Publicaciones, Universidad de Murcia, 2011 (© Publications Service, University of Murcia, 2011)
2. The works are published in the electronic edition of the journal under Creative Commons Reconocimiento-NoComercial-SinObraDerivada 3.0 España(texto legal) “ a Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 Spain license (legal text)”. They can be copied, used, broadcasted, transmitted and publicly displayed, provided that: i) the authorship and original source of their publication (journal, publisher and URL) are cited; (ii) are not used for commercial purposes; iii) the existence and specifications of this license is mentioned.
3. Conditions of self-archiving. Authors are allowed and encouraged to electronically disseminate the pre-print (pre-reviewed ) and / or post-print (reviewed and accepted for publication) versions of their works prior to publication, as it ensures a wider circulation and dissemination which may lead to a possible increase in its mention and a higher scope among the academic community. RoMEO color: green.
