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[Usefulness of a multidisciplinary gerontological assessment tool in the allocation of social-health resources]
C García Ameijeiras1, T Roigé Cortadelles, T Elías Aldosa
1Región Sanitaria Costa de Ponent, Servei Català de la Salut, Barcelona.
Objectives:
To analyse the level and characteristics of dependency, and the criteria for prioritizing and allocating resources for people requiring long-stay social-health resources, temporary admission or alternative resources.
Design:
Descriptive cross-sectional study.
Setting:
Social-health care programme of the Costa de Ponent health region.
Patients And Participants:
232 patients evaluated by the social-health interdisciplinary mixed committees in the Anoia, L'Hospitalet and Centre-North Baix Llobregat and Fontsanta sectors during the first half of 1996.
Measurements And Main Results:
A triple-assessment instrument (medical, nursing and social) was worked out, with homogeneous weighting between the three. The Barthel, OARS, Performance Status and Folstein's Minimental indexes were used; and the relationship between the scores on each one of them, the final score and the allocation of social-health resources were established.
Conclusions:
This instrument enables long-stay admission requests or social-health short-term admission to be classified and prioritized, so improving equality in access to this resource.