PMID: 16527167Mar 11, 2006Paper

Study on the immediate care clinics of the Internal Medicine Department (University Clinic Hospital of Valladolid)

Revista clínica española
P A de Santos CastroM F Muñoz Moreno

Abstract

Several studies have found a high percentage of inadequate admissions to Internal Medicine Departments. In order to try to alleviate this situation, the Immediate Care Clinics of the Internal Medicine Department (ICCIMD) was created, to study those patients who are suspected of having a serious disease, and whose physical condition allows them to undergo an out-patient study the day after having visited the Emergency Department. The tests requested will take precedence over the rest of the consultations. Descriptive, retrospective study, through the review of the clinical records of the patients who came to the ICCIMD during the first two years. Our service admitted 726 people in the ACCIMD, 52.2 % males, average age of 54.12 years old. A total of 18.6 % of the patients required hospital admission; this admission being carried out at the first medical examination in 66.7% of the cases. In most cases, it can be related with shortening a study that would have lasted longer. In spite of this, we consider that 1.4 daily admissions have been avoided. Mean time devoted to this study was about 33.20 days, much greater than that expected, because of the high prevalence of non-specific disease and hospital organization deficit. It was d...Continue Reading

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Dec 3, 2011·Journal of Hospital Medicine : an Official Publication of the Society of Hospital Medicine·Xavier BoschAlfonso López-Soto

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