[Cost analysis of nursing home visits to immobilized patients. Approach to the efficiency study].
OBJECTIVES. MAIN: To analyze total costs of the nursing home visit to immobilized patients. SECONDARY: To know the kind of nursing care according to the health problem; to determine the interventions made in each visit; to determine how many time do the nurses pass in each home visit.


METHODS
Observational cross-sectional study. It were revised the epidemiological card index to obtain the following variables: age, sex, service inclusion motive, caregiver, number of visits, intervention in each visit, and time of displacement.


METHODS
Primary Health Care Center.


METHODS
It were studied 165 patients enclosed in attendance to immobilized patients service.


RESULTS
The mean of visits made per patient was 3.8. Interventions made to most individuals were: feeding habits education (42.4%); physical activity stimulation (40.6%) and security measures counselling (28.48%). Total time per visit is 33.26 minutes.


CONCLUSIONS
Attendance time is the third part of total time, so it is important to mark the need to organize the work in order to exploit to the full the time of each intervention. The mean total time is noticeably lower to other similar studies, anyway each visit cost.
de Francisco Casado
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Sector 2 INSALUD, Madrid.
D000368:Aged; D003152:Community Health Nursing / Q000191:economics*; D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis; D005260:Female; D006699:Home Care Services / Q000191:economics*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013030:Spain; D013997:Time Factors