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MESA CABRERA, Miguel  e  BLANCO ASPIAZU, Miguel Ángel. Quality elements to the hospital assessment of the patient presenting with cerebrovascular disease. Rev Cub Med Mil [online]. 2010, vol.39, n.2, pp. 141-149. ISSN 1561-3046.

The cerebrovascular disease is a health problem for Cuba being the third cause of death and the first one of adult's inability with serious repercussions for the patients, its family and society. The aim of present review is to update on the quality indicators and the economic assessment studies of disease. In health field some different quality definitions are reviewed, approaching on the continuous assessment of quality by appropriate indictors and the hospital care efficiency with its social and economic implications as an essential feature for this field in Cuba. From the principle that the health has not price, although to recover and to maintain it be necessary to incur in high costs, the subject of economic assessment is approached with the premise that the economy and health are essential for this field in Cuba. From the principle that health has not price, although to recover and to maintain it is necessary incur in high costs, the subject of economic assessment is approached with the premise that the economy and the health must to be an inseparable binomial feature.

Palavras-chave : Cerebrovascular disease; quality indicators; economic assessment; costs.

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