Features of long term hospital stay patients in general surgery at Hospital Nacional Almanzor Aguinaga Asenjo

Introduction: Prolonged hospitalization constitutes a grave concern worldwide because its negative effects on the health system, raising their costs, generating a health service provision deficit, hospitalization and urgencies department saturation and as a result, greater adverse effects such as in...

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Autores: Díaz-Koo, Cristian Jesús, Fernández-Mogollón, Jorge, Hirakata-Nakayama, César
Formato: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2020
País:Perú
Recursos:Cuerpo Médico Hospital Nacional Almanzor Aguinaga Asenjo
Repositorio:Revista del Cuerpo Médico Hospital Nacional Almanzor Aguinaga Asenjo
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:cmhnaaa_ojs_cmhnaaa.cmhnaaa.org.pe:article/732
Acesso em linha:https://cmhnaaa.org.pe/ojs/index.php/rcmhnaaa/article/view/732
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:Tiempo de internación
hospitalización
cirugía general
Lenght of Stay
hospitalization
General Surgery
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Resumo:Introduction: Prolonged hospitalization constitutes a grave concern worldwide because its negative effects on the health system, raising their costs, generating a health service provision deficit, hospitalization and urgencies department saturation and as a result, greater adverse effects such as intrahospitalary diseases. Objective: Determine the characteristics of patients with prolonged hospital stay in the General Surgery service of the HNAAA. Results: It was found a mean of 15 days of hospitalization in long-stay patients. The characteristics most found in those patients were the delay in surgical procedures, abscense of a health system worker proximity (74%), age older than 65 years (58%) , being female (54%) and having a gastro intestinal neoplasm ( colon cancer :16%, ampuloma:10%, stomach cancer: 8%). Conclusion: The most common characteristics found were the delay in surgical procedure perform, delay in interconsult answer, the absence of an inside known doctor, administrative worker or cleaning service worker, age beyond 65 years, being female and having a gastro intestinal tract cancer.