The one-stop clinic as the standard of out-patient care in a hospital urology department.

PURPOSE: To evaluate the performance of a 'one-stop' clinic in terms of proportion of discharges or inclusion in surgical waiting lists. MATERIALS AND METHODS: All patients were referred from primary care facilities (population 220,646) and from different departments in the hospital. Eight senior urologists, two registered nurses and two nurse attendants participated in the experience. Prior to the start of the project, referral protocols had been agreed with the primary care physicians involved. Compliance with the protocols was periodically tested. Eventually 5537 first visits (January-December 2009) where evaluable. RESULTS: Overall, the 'one-stop' format proved feasible in 74.2% of the patients (4108/5537). Patients, who successfully used the 'one-stop' format, were significantly younger than those who required additional consultations (43 vs 50 years old, respectively, Student 's t test < 0.001). For obvious reasons the 'one-stop' format was universally possible in male sterilization and penile phimosis patients. Similarly, the 'one-stop' policy was applied in most consultations due to male sexual dysfunction (75%) and urinary tract infection (73%). Other health problems, such as haematuria (62%) and renal colic (46%), required more than one visit so that care of the patient reverted to the traditional, outpatient care model. CONCLUSION: A 'one-stop' philosophy is feasible for a number of procedures in a urological outpatient clinic. The costs to implement such an approach would be limited to managerial expenditure.

The one-stop clinic as the standard of out-patient care in a hospital urology department

PURPOSE: To evaluate the performance of a 'one-stop' clinic in terms of proportion of discharges or inclusion in surgical waiting lists. MATERIALS AND METHODS: All patients were referred from primary care facilities (population 220.646) and from different departments in the hospital. Eight senior urologists, two registered nurses and two nurse attendants participated in the experience. Prior to the start of the project, referral protocols had been agreed with the primary care physicians involved. Compliance with the protocols was periodically tested. Eventually 5537 first visits (January-December 2009) where evaluable. RESULTS: Overall, the 'one-stop' format proved feasible in 74.2 percent of the patients (4108/5537). Patients, who successfully used the 'one-stop' format, were significantly younger than those who required additional consultations (43 vs 50 years old, respectively, Student's t test < 0.001). For obvious reasons the 'one-stop' format was universally possible in male sterilization and penile phimosis patients. Similarly, the 'one-stop' policy was applied in most consultations due to male sexual dysfunction (75 percent) and urinary tract infection (73 percent). Other health problems, such as haematuria (62 percent) and renal colic (46 percent), required more than one visit so that care of the patient reverted to the traditional, outpatient care model. CONCLUSION: A 'one-stop' philosophy is feasible for a number of procedures in a urological outpatient clinic. The costs to implement such an approach would be limited to managerial expenditure.

Hallazgos audiológicos en la población de postulantes a soldados voluntarios / Auditory findings in a population of postulants to voluntary soldiers

Para el ingrso como Soldado Voluntario en el Ejército Argentino es un requisito obligatorio el examen otoscópico y la audiometría. utilizamos los estudios realizados por el ingreso como base para elaborar el presente trabajo. ...En este trabajo se intenta presentar una muestra de la otoscopía y audiometría de los jóvenes argentinos de fines del milenio

Hallazgos audiológicos en la población de postulantes a soldados voluntarios / Auditory findings in a population of postulants to voluntary soldiers

Para el ingrso como Soldado Voluntario en el Ejército Argentino es un requisito obligatorio el examen otoscópico y la audiometría. utilizamos los estudios realizados por el ingreso como base para elaborar el presente trabajo. ...En este trabajo se intenta presentar una muestra de la otoscopía y audiometría de los jóvenes argentinos de fines del milenio

Comportamiento de los factores de riesgo del bajo peso al nacer / Behavior of risk factors of the low birth weigth

Se realizó un estudio de casos y controles uno por uno, sobre el comportamiento de los factores de riesgo del bajo peso al nacer en el Policlínico Docente Tula Aguilera de la ciudad de Camagüey, durante el año 1996. El grupo estudio (casos), constituido por todos los nacidos vivos, 57 en total, con peso menor de 2 500 g y el grupo control constituido por recién nacidos con peso de 2 500 g o más, los cuales fueron seleccionados mediante un muestreo aleatorio sistemático. Todos los nacimientos ocurrieron en el Hospital Materno Provincial de Camagüey. Los resultados más relevantes fueron los problemas nutricionales, entre ellos la evaluación nutricional inicial de la madre y la ganancia de peso durante el embarazo con riesgo relativo de 2, 65 y 3, 66 respectivamente; así como los trastornos propios del embarazo, como son, la amenaza de parto pretérmino, la ruptura de membranas y el embarazo gemelar con riesgo relativo cada uno de ellos de 11, 57, fueron los factores de riesgo que más incidieron en el bajo peso al nacer. Se encontró además que del total de bajo peso el 56, 75% eran de crecimiento intrauterino retardado. Se concluyó que los problemas nutricionales de la madre y los trastornos propios del embarazo tienen el mayor peso en los factores de riesgo de bajo peso al nacer.

A case and control study about the behavior of risk factors of the low birth weigth was carried out at Tula Aguilera Teaching Policlinic of composed of all live-born (37as total ) with a weigth lower than 2500 gms or more, which werc selected through a systematic ramdomized sampling. All births ocurred in the Provincial Maternity Hospital of Camaguey. The most relevant results were the nutritional problems among then the early nutritional evaluation of the mother and weigth gaining during pregnancy with an OR of 2, 65 and 3, 66 respectively, as well as disorders of the gestation such as rupture and the twin pregnancy with an OR each of them of 11, 57. These were the risk factors with higher incidence in the low birth weigth. It was found also that 56, 75% out of total of low weigth had intrauterine retarded growth. Concluding, nutritional problems of the higher influence among the risk factors of the low birth weigth.

Realidad del pie diabético del programa de diabetes mellitus del Hospital de Molina año 1999 / Reality of diabetic foot of the diabetes mellitus programme at Hospital de Molina, 1999

Se evaluó mediante cartilla de evaluación del pie diabético al 73 por ciento de la población en control de los pacientes diabéticos del Hospital de Molina, y así poder prevenir las invalidantes consecuencias de esta enfermedad. Los resultados muestran que el daño o alteración del pie es mayor a mayor edad y tiempo de evolución, más aún en varones, con mayor prevalencia en deformidad ósea, y a mayor tiempo de evolución de la enfermedad hay un notable aumento de la neuropatía diabética. El presente trabajo nos orienta para que el equipo de salud dirija los esfuerzos en mejor forma, destinados a la prevención del daño irreversible del pie diabético