PMID: 11323569Apr 27, 2001Paper

Gastroenterologists in ambulatory care. The experience in Turin in the year 2000

Minerva medica
R PellicanoF Palmas

Abstract

Digestive diseases (GI) have a major impact on public health in Italy. Hospital stay for digestive pathologies parallels that due to cardiovascular causes. Total mortality for GI causes is also very high. The management of GI pathologies is therefore a major task for the National Health System. To the experienced gastroenterologist it is clear that a large number of hospitalisation is linked to a lack of careful outpatient follow-up of diseases such as cirrhosis, ulcerative colitis and peptic ulcer. One year of activity of our Gastro-entero-Hepatology outpatient service is examined. The management of the majority of GI diseases is organized in working teams of physicians and surgeons following cohorts of patients suffering of a specific disease. During the year 2000 not only a statistically significant higher number of patients has been examined (p<0.05), in comparison with 1994, but also the hospitalisation rate was lowered resulting in a very significative cost-containment. The specialization of outpatient activities into working teams offers advantages in terms of more appropriate medical care and cost reduction, partly due to a less frequent hospitalisation. The obvious counterpart was an increase of request of such form of...Continue Reading

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