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La tinta del documento está bastante opaca. DRACES [Departamento de Regulación, Acreditación y Control de Establecimientos de Salud] Este documento tiene como objeto: "la regulación, autorización y control de los laboratorios de diagnóstico clínico y/o de vigilancia epidemiológica, en concordancia con el Reglamento para la Regulación, Autorización, Acreditación y Control de Establecimientos de Atención para la Salud, Acuerdo Gubernativo 376-2007." Es de carácter obligatorio, por lo que se aplica tanto al sector público, privado, social o subsector de la seguridad social, en todo el territorio nacional. Contiene además, las definiciones de los conceptos relacionados al tema principal, además de la infraestructura que deberá tener cada clínica, incluidos el equipo y recurso humano y técnico. En el capítulo II, incluye una clasificación del nivel de laboratorios, describiendo sus características, servicios, horarios, materiales técnicos y equipos.
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Humans , Male , Female , Clinical Laboratory Techniques/classification , Clinical Laboratory Services/organization & administration , Laboratories/legislation & jurisprudence , Medical Laboratory Personnel/standards , Medical Laboratory Personnel/organization & administration , Containment of Biohazards/standards , Clinical Laboratory Techniques/instrumentation , Clinical Laboratory Services/standards , Guatemala , Laboratories/organization & administrationABSTRACT
Objetivo: el síndrome de disfunción de la articulación sacroiliaca es una de las principales causas de dolor lumbar. Este artículo muestra cómo se evaluó el curso clínico de personas sometidas a bloqueos selectivos percutáneos para el tratamiento del dolor sacroiliaco. Materiales y métodos: se trataron 115 pacientes que asistieron a consulta entre noviembre de 2006 y mayo de 2013. Fueron diagnosticados con síndrome de disfunción de la articulación sacroiliaca. Se realizaron 131 bloqueos de esta articulación, llevados a cabo por uno de los autores (JCA) con técnica percutánea bajo visión fluoroscópica. El análisis se realizó a partir de la información de la historia clínica con un seguimiento de hasta un año. Resultados: se evaluó la intensidad del dolor con la escala visual análoga y se encontró que el 67 % de los pacientes presentó mejoría superior al 50% del dolor. El 35% presentó mejoría superior al 75% del dolor. Conclusiones: el tratamiento del dolor lumbar secundario a una alteración en la articulación sacroiliaca puede ser tratado con la realización percutánea de bloqueo selectivo con esteroides y anestésicos.
Sacroiliac joint ¿ysfunction syndrome is a major cause of lower back pain. Aim: To discuss the usefulness of selective percutaneous blockages as a potential treatment. Materials and methods: The population of this study were 115 patients who consultad hrom November 2006 until May 2013, and were diagnosed with sacroiliac joint syndrome. 131 blockages of the sacroiliac joint were performed in the last 6 years by observen (JCA) with a technique under fluoroscopic víew. The analysis was performed with data from the clinical history followed for up to one vean Results: It was found that 67% of patients showed an ¿mprovement of over 50% of pain using analog pain scale of these, 35% had greater improvement than 75% of the pain. Conclusions: One of the high-cost diseases un the system is lower back pain, and it ineludes Sacroiliac joint dysfunction Syndrome which must be diagnosed by history physical examination and radiological aids. The percutaneous blockage ¿s a treatment under fluoroscopic visión which can reach verv favorable results.
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Sacroiliac Joint , Low Back Pain/diagnosis , Clinical Laboratory Techniques/classification , Chronic Pain/diagnosisABSTRACT
BACKGROUND: Standardization of medical terminology is essential for data transmission between health-care institutions or clinical laboratories and for maximizing the benefits of information technology. Purpose of our study was to standardize the medical terms used in the clinical laboratory, such as test names, units, terms used in result descriptions, etc. During the first year of the study, we developed a standard database of concept names for laboratory terms, which covered the terms used in government health care centers, their branch offices, and primary health care units. METHODS: Laboratory terms were collected from the electronic data interchange (EDI) codes from National Health Insurance Corporation (NHIC), Logical Observation Identifier Names and Codes (LOINC) database, community health centers and their branch offices, and clinical laboratories of representative university medical centers. For standard expression, we referred to the English-Korean/ Korean-English medical dictionary of Korean Medical Association and the rules for foreign language translation. Programs for mapping between LOINC DB and EDI code and for translating English to Korean were developed. RESULTS: A Korean standard laboratory terminology database containing six axial concept names such as components, property, time aspect, system (specimen), scale type, and method type was established for 7,508 test observations. Short names and a mapping table for EDI codes and Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) were added. Synonym tables for concept names, words used in the database, and six axial terms were prepared to make it easier to find the standard terminology with common terms used in the field of laboratory medicine. CONCLUSIONS: Here we report for the first time a Korean standard laboratory terminology database for test names, result description terms, result units covering most laboratory tests in primary healthcare centers.