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PLANAS BORRERO, Ana; HARDY GONZALEZ, Enma; PEREZ RICHARD, Mireya  y  COELLO MORALES, Delfín. Comportamiento de la atención médica en el subsistema de urgencia. Rev Cubana Enfermer [online]. 2000, vol.16, n.3, pp. 176-179. ISSN 1561-2961.

A descriptive study is implemented so as to evaluate the behaviour of the medical care in the emergency subsystem of 28 de septiembre Polyclinic, of Santiago de Cuba province, in the period comprised from January to July of 1998. The sample was formed by all the patients who attended the main emergency Polyclinic, they reached a total of 25 630 whom was applied a survey with variables of interst like: most frequent diseases, cases cared according to the days of the week, cases seen for office reasons, cases according to the use of the diagnostic tools, acupuncture treatment applied, referrals to the secondary care, number of nursing procedures, application of the process of nursing care. Among the most relevant conclusions we find that bronchial asthma was the most frequent disease cared, the day of week with greater attendance of patients was Monday at 6 pm, bronchial asthma was the prevailing reason for office visits, followed by arterial hypertension. The diagnostic tool most used was the clinical laboratory. The treatment most applied was the pharmacological one. The cases with most referrals to secondary care were those of medicine. In the procedures of nursing applied according to medical origin, that of aerosol-therapy occupies the first place followed by the use of the intramuscular treatment. Bronchial asthma occupied the first place in the application of the nursing care process.

Palabras clave : EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES [use]; NURSING CARE [use]; DATA COLLECTION.

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