Abstract

FONSECA HERNANDEZ, Mercedes et al. Comportamiento de indicadores hospitalarios durante el decenio 1990-1999. Rev Cubana Pediatr [online]. 2001, vol.73, n.3, pp. 158-164. ISSN 1561-3119.

A chronological study was conducted aimed at knowing the behavior of selected hospital indicators during 1990-1999, for which the lineal trend was determined by the semiaverages method. It was observed a light trend towards the increase of the consultations made and of the average of cases seen at the physician’s office. The trend of the total number of patients that received attention at the physician’s office showed a high increase due mainly to the rise of cases attended by different surgery specialists and multidisciplinary teams. It was observed a decreasing trend of the number of hospital admissions, of the bed occupancy rate and of hospital stay. The trend towards the reduction of deaths and of the net mortality rate was more discrete. A trend towards the increase of the number of ambulatory operations was also observed. A favorable behavior of almost all the hospital indicators selected to be analyzed was confirmed during the last 10 years due possibly to the organizational changes that occurred during the second half of the studied decade.

Keywords : CHILD HEALTH SERVICES [statistics & numerical data]; CHILD HEALTH SERVICES [legislation & jurisprudence]; HOSPITALS, PEDIATRIC; HEALTH SERVICES STATISTICS; HEALTH CARE EVALUATION MECHANISMS.

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