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Objetivos: Determinar si el programa informático ASIGNA, basado en la asignación de pacientes por equipo enfermero-médico, reduce el tiempo de espera de los usuarios antes de ser valorados por urgenciólogos del Hospital de General Universitario de Elda. Método: Estudio de intervención no aleatorio, realizado en febrero de 2012 y febrero de 2013, tras la instauración del programa ASIGNA. Se determina como variable principal, el tiempo entre el triaje y la valoración por el urgenciólogo, cuantitativamente en minutos y de forma cualitativa mediante el cumplimiento o no de los tiempos determinados para cada color del triaje Manchester. Las variables secundarias fueron: sexo, edad, color de triaje y la cola o densidad de pacientes. Se utiliza el análisis multivariante de regresión lineal múltiple (tiempo triaje -valoración médica en minutos) y regresión logística (tiempo correcto). Se calculan los indicadores de relevancia clínica. Resultados: ASIGNA aumenta el porcentaje de triaje realizado correctamente del 68,2 al 90,6% (p < 0,001), reduce el tiempo triaje -valoración médica de 63,6 min a 25,2 min (p < 0,001) y reduce la cola de pacientes de 23,8 a 18,0 (p < 0,001). Los indicadores de relevancia clínica fueron: reducción del riesgo absoluto de 0,22 (IC 95%: 0,19-0,26, p < 0,001); reducción del riesgo relativo de 0,70 (IC 95%: 0,64-0,76) y números de pacientes a asistir de 5 (IC 95%: 4-6). ASIGNA multiplica por 4 la posibilidad de atender a un paciente que acuda a urgencias en tiempo correcto. Conclusión: La aplicación del programa ASIGNA obtiene una reducción estadísticamente significativa y clínicamente relevante del tiempo entre triaje y valoración médica
Objective: To determine whether the ASIGNA program for assigning patients to nurse-physician teams expedites time until the initial evaluation of a patient by an emergency physician in the Hospital General Universitario de Elda, Spain. Methods: Nonrandomized study of the effect of using the ASIGNA program from February 2012 to February 2013. The main outcomes were times in minutes until triage and until the initial evaluation by an emergency physician, and the qualitative assessment of compliance or not with times considered reasonable for each color-coded priority category in the Manchester triage system. Secondary variables recorded were sex, age, triage color code, and number of patients waiting. Multivariable linear regression analysis was used to study time between triage and physician evaluation in minutes; logistic regression analysis was used to study the associations with reasonable time according to the Manchester triage system. Indicators of clinical relevance were calculated with 95% confidence intervals (CI). Results: The rates of correctly performed triage increased from 68.2% to 90.6% with use of the ASIGNA program (P < .001). Time from triage to physician evaluation decreased from 63.6 minutes to 25.2 minutes (P < .001), and the number of patients waiting decreased from 23.8 to 18.0 (P<.001). Analysis of indicators of clinical relevance showed improvements in both absolute risk (reduction of 0.22; 95% CI, 0.19-0.26; P < .001) and relative risk (reduction of 0.70; 95% CI, 0.64-0.76). The number of waiting patients fell by 5 (95% CI, 4-6) The ASIGNA program made it possible to attend 4-fold more patients within an amount of time considered reasonable. Conclusions: The use of the ASIGNA program leads to statistically significant and clinically relevant reductions in time from triage to physician evaluation
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Humans , Triage/organization & administration , Emergency Medical Services/organization & administration , Patient-Centered Care/organization & administration , Emergency Treatment/statistics & numerical data , Time-to-Treatment/statistics & numerical dataABSTRACT
Our experience in out-patient surgery from October 1994 to July 1996 is reported. Patients were selected using anesthesiology criteria (anesthetic risk I or II, psychosocial criteria, operation time less that 1 h 30 min, age > 6 years). One hundred seventy-eight patients underwent surgery: 61 direct suspension laryngoscopy, 50 adenoidectomy, 48 septoplasty, 10 functional endoscopic sinus surgery, 8 myringotomy, and 1 nasal decortication. Fourteen patients (7.86%) required hospital admission. No patients required ENT care in the first 24 hours after release from the Ambulatory Surgery Unit.
