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Neurological health care activity in a recently created district hospital: model of high efficiency

F. J. Jiménez-Jiménez, J.F. Plaza-Nieto, F. Navacerrada, H. Alonso-Navarro, B. Pilo-de-la-Fuente, M. Arroyo-Solera, M. Guillán, M. Calleja, D. Moreno-Puertas [REV NEUROL 2015;60:193-201] PMID: 25710688 DOI: https://doi.org/10.33588/rn.6005.2014225

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ABSTRACT

AIM To analyze the neurological attention of a county hospital of recent creation, with a special emphasis in the health care indicators, both in hospital out-patients consultations and in patients admitted to the hospital.

PATIENTS AND METHODS We have made a descriptive analysis of the neurological attention developed by our Neurology Section between the years 2008 and 2013. We also made a comparative analysis of health care indicators corresponding to the years 2012 and 2013 (5th and 6th years of clinical activity) of our hospital with those of two other hospitals with similar features, other three hospitals of secondary level, and four of tertiary level.

RESULTS The Neurology Section of our hospital was the best in the number of first visits divided by number of physicians, in the follow-up/first visit index, in the percentage of high-resolution visits, and was the best in the mean stay in hospital for the two most frequent diagnostic related groups (DRG) in our speciality, the second in number of hospital admissions divided by number of physicians for the DRG ‘stroke with infarction’ and the third in number of hospital admissions divided by number of physicians for the DRG ‘other nervous system disorders’.

CONCLUSIONS The health care indicators of the Neurology Section of our hospital showed a very high efficiency model of medical assistance, which was only followed by other two hospitals with similar features to ours. The gradual implementation of assistance models similar to that used in these hospitals in other of secondary or tertiary levels could be useful in the improvement of their health care efficiency. KeywordsEfficiency Health area Health care activity Health care indicators Health care management Neurology CategoriesCalidad, Gestión y Organización Asistencial

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Neurological health care activity in a recently created district hospital: model of high efficiency