title: [An evaluation of the 4 years of the Oral Rehydration Service of the Hospital Infantil de Monterrey].
abstract: At four years of being founded the Service of Oral Hydration from Hospital Infantil de Monterrey, we carried out this investigation to know its productivity, to determine costs of internments, death rates due to diarrhea and dehydration in the hospital and at a State level. The statistics from the hospital were revised in the previous and subsequent years to the institution of the Service in September of 1986, so as the statistics of death due to diarrhea from the State Health Department. The cases attended were 12,139, from which 9,024 belonged to plan A, 2,983 to plan B and 72 to plan C. Three hundred (300) doctors were trained and nine (9) research studies were accomplished. A decrease was achieved from the hospital rate admission by diarrhea and dehydration, throw the oral dehydration therapy in a 66%, the mortality rate was reduced 72% and an expenditure of $619,243,480.00 pesos in drugs and auxiliary examinations of diagnostic was avoided. At a State level the general death rate due to diarrhea got a cutdown of 13.1 to 5.8, and in infants under a year old decreased from 275 to 122.3. The oral hydration therapy applied in the State seems to be the main reason in that results.
authors.affiliation: Servicio de Hidratación Oral, Hospital Infantil de Monterrey, Nuevo León, México.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Muraira-Gutiérrez
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Méndez-Jara
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Ruiz-Villalpando
mesh_terms: D002675:Child, Preschool; D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis; D003681:Dehydration / Q000191:economics / Q000401:mortality / Q000628:therapy; D003967:Diarrhea / Q000191:economics / Q000401:mortality / Q000628:therapy; D003968:Diarrhea, Infantile / Q000191:economics / Q000401:mortality / Q000628:therapy; D004526:Efficiency; D005440:Fluid Therapy / Q000191:economics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006760:Hospitalization / Q000191:economics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006776:Hospitals, Pediatric / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008800:Mexico; D015397:Program Evaluation
vernacular_title: Evaluación de 4 años del Servicio de Hidratación Oral del Hospital Infantil de Monterrey.