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la morbilidad de pacientes de las Unidades de Cuidados Intensivos de los Hospitales del Sistema Tec Salud
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Daniel, Eduardo Velázquez, Aceves Jesus, Felipe Born De Rada, Pérez Nava, Víctor Manuel Sánchez |
| Copyright Year | 2015 |
| Abstract | SUMMARY Introduction: Omission mistakes are a frequent cause of avoidable complications in Medicine. Critically ill patients, due to their complexity, are more vulnerable to these. Several checklists have been developed to decrease the omission mistakes in the Critical Care Unit and by doing so, decrease also the complications related to them. To the date, there are not checklists developed in a Mexican Critical Care Unit. Objective: We propose the use of the acronym «Calidad» (C is for Catheters, A for feeding (Alimentacion) and gly- cemic control, L for skin and Lesions, I for head position (Inclinacion), D for pain/consciousness/delirium (Dolor), A is for Airway and D for thrombosis Development) as a tool to decrease omissions and the incidence of complications in critically ill patients. Patients and methods: This was a longitudinal, cohort study to compare the impact of the application of this checklist in the compliance of the most basic general care variables of critically ill patients at their Critical Care Unit admission. We included patients over 18 years of age, critically ill and hospitalized in the Critical Care Units of two private Hospitals. The control group consisted of the hospitalized patients from June to October of 2012 and the study group (after the application of «Calidad») the same months but of 2013. A descriptive analysis and a comparison between groups in terms of variable compli- ance and complication incidence were made. We used Chi square and Fisher tests. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.medigraphic.com/pdfs/medcri/ti-2015/ti154e.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.scielo.org.mx/pdf/rammcti/v29n4/v29n4a5.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
