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[Domiciliary nursing care in a special emergency service: characteristics of the population attended]
M P Marco Martínez1, J M Abad Díez
1Hospital Clínico Universitario de Zaragoza.
Objective:
To analyse the characteristics of the users of programmed home nursing care in the Special Emergency Service (SES) in Zaragoza.
Design:
Cross-sectional, descriptive study.
Patients:
Patients who asked for programmed home nursing care on 5 consecutive sundays of each quarter of 1998.
Setting:
SES in Zaragoza.
Measurements And Main Results:
We analysed the characteristics of the SES users as to age and sex, origin by health districts and areas, and nursing services requested. 1104 of the 3507 calls made were from men (31.5%), and 2403 women (68.5%). Average age was 73.21 (+/- 13.54). Services most in demand were the administration of anti-clotting agents (31.46%), followed by healing treatment (19.44%), mainly for bedsores. Area II had a greater rate of attendance (6.28%), with more demand from the four consulting clinics belonging to this area than from the health centres.
Conclusions:
The general profile of the patient at home is of women with an average age of 74.27 (+/- 12.77), who are administered anti-clotting drugs or receive care for sores. These require primary care nursing attention to improve their quality of life and satisfaction. There were differences in the rates of demand between the different health areas.
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