[Usefulness of a morbidity registry for service planning and assessment of quality of care].
BACKGROUND
Objective. 1. To know the primary and secondary chief complaints. 2. To obtain health problems incidence and prevalence rates of the population attended. 3. To evaluate the usefulness of a selective morbidity registry, of certain complaints in order to elaborate assistance quality indicators.


METHODS



METHODS
Descriptive cross-sectional study. Site: Health urban center (Nazaret, Valencia) for primary assistance.


METHODS
Randomized sample of patients attended during a year (n = 2898). Age, sex and case history number were recorded as well as whether the complaint was chief, secondary, new or known.


RESULTS
Among all the problems recorded, the bureaucratic ones (prescriptions) accounted for 11.6% (IC95%: 4.3 +/- 12.8), working disability certificates due to health being 5.1% (IC95%: 4.3 +/- 5.9). Among the patients attended there was an incidence rate of 10(5) year patients in the acute respiratory infections of 12584.3, acute bronchitis was 2516.8 showing the highest prevalence those regarding administrative sources and attention of chronic pathologies.


CONCLUSIONS
A morbidity record with the characteristics mentioned leads to the knowledge of the problems of the population attended and to assess some aspects of assistance quality (disease cases avoidable by vaccine, assistance administrative charge, health training activities during the consult ...), especially when these sampling are performed periodically.
González Luján
L
L
Centro de Salud de Nazaret, Valencia.
Costa Alcaraz
A
A
Morais de la Horra
F
F
Candela Delegido
V
V
Fernández Ruiz
N
N
Ballester
A
A
D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D005260:Female; D006296:Health Services / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006298:Health Services Administration; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009017:Morbidity; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D012042:Registries; D013030:Spain