title: [Chronic home-care patients and their primary health care environment].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Describing the primary level of attention to chronic home patients (CHP), their quality or life and the one of their home carers.
  
  
  METHODS
  Descriptive transverse study.
  
  
  METHODS
  Teaching Unit of Family of Sestao (Vizcaya) urban environment.
  
  
  METHODS
  197 CHP patients with subacute, chronic illnesses or in terminal stages or handicapped, that is to say, people who cannot attend the Medical Centre and needing constant home care (longer than 4 weeks) although they do not need to be in hospital at the moment.
  
  
  RESULTS
  A questionnaire made up by the researching group.
  
  
  METHODS
  April-June 1992.
  
  
  METHODS
  The clinical histories and home interviews. Mean age (78 +/- 23) years old; 70% were women; average of health problems of patients (4.2 +/- 4); average of drug consumption by patients (3.6 +/- 4); average of one visit to each patient per two months; 75% did not need derivation. The average age of people looking after them was (58 +/- 28) years old and 77.3% of them were women. Their average QL index was (9 +/- 2.4) out of 10, 9.2% had a QL index between 4 and 7 although there was nobody under 3.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  We have found an old population, mostly women with an average of health problems of (4.24 +/- 4) and who are polymedicated. 9.4 of them are not looked after by anybody. Generally their homes are habitable enough. In 77.3% of the cases the carers are women and 65.6% do not receive any domiciliary help.
authors.affiliation: Centro de Salud de Sestao, Vizcaya.
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Bilbao Curiel
authors.forename: A M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Gastaminza Santacoloma
authors.forename: J A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: García García
authors.forename: J A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Quindimil Vázquez
authors.forename: J L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: López Rivas
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Huidobro Fernández
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D017028:Caregivers / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D016009:Chi-Square Distribution; D002908:Chronic Disease / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000451:nursing*; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D006699:Home Care Services / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011320:Primary Health Care / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D013030:Spain / Q000453:epidemiology; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014505:Urban Population / Q000706:statistics & numerical data
vernacular_title: Los pacientes domiciliarios crónicos y su entorno en atención primaria de salud.