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Gaceta Médica Espirituana
On-line version ISSN 1608-8921
Abstract
ORELLANA MENESES, Geovanis Alcides and CARPIO MUNOZ, Emilio. Intervention strategy in health service to improve the medical care process to children with recurrent lung affections. Gac Méd Espirit [online]. 2015, vol.17, n.1, pp.42-59. ISSN 1608-8921.
Background: The medical care process to children with recurrent lung affections at Sancti Spíritus province shows insufficiencies that promote inappropriate identification of those patients and use of methods for the diagnosis of the possible underlying causes in different ways. The design of actions to offset those insufficiencies has not still been described in scientific papers. Objective: to design an intervention strategy in health service for the improvement on the medical care process to children with recurrent lung affections. Methodology: The following methods were used: documental analysis, observation, interviews, nominal groups, experts' criteria; as well as statistical-mathematical methods. The investigation was divided into three stages and it was developed at Sancti Spíritus province from 2009 to 2014. Results: Methodological insufficiencies were detected in the medical care process to children with recurrent lung affections. An intervention strategy was elaborated and executed; this strategy consisted on the re dimension of the existent organization in health services, as well as in the structuring of theoretical, clinical and investigative elements to evaluate and to investigate those patients. Conclusions: The strategy demonstrated to be effective and applicable; it facilitated a first approach to Cuban children with recurrent lung affections and allowed to increase the level of doctors’ knowledge on those affections.
Keywords : strategies; intervention studies; recurrent lung affections; lung affections; recurrent pneumonias.