PMID: 16527040Mar 11, 2006Paper

Internal Medicine hospital departments of Andalucian Public Health System. A description of the clinical activity in 2002

Revista clínica española
C M de San Román y de Terán, R Guijarro Merino

Abstract

Description of the patients admitted in the general Internal Medicine (IM) departments of the Public Health System in Andalusia (Spain) (PHSA) during 2002. It is an analysis of the Minimum Basic Set of Data (MBSD) and its management by the Diagnostic Related Groups (DRG) of admission episodes in Andalusian public hospitals. We divided the hospitals into group 1: more than 600 beds; group 2: between 200 and 600 beds, and group 3: less than 200 beds. IM services discharged 80,514 patients (total in PHSA, 558,114); 25.9%, 29.6% and 44.5% from groups 1, 2 y 3, respectively; 87.4% were admitted from the emergency room. Gross mortality rate was 10.23%. Average age was 72 years, 8 years more than in the other medical departments. Mean diagnosis per episode was 5.4. The most frequent pathologies (33%) were chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, congestive heart failure, brain stroke and coronary heart disease. Adjusted length of stay was 9.35 days, this being somewhat longer in big hospitals. Mean weight of the episodes (DRG weight) of IM services was 20% higher than the mean of the rest and it accumulates 18.02% of the total weight. Real hours of outpatient clinics was 5.45% of the total. The activity of the general IM services is ver...Continue Reading

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