title: The use of the tracer methodology to assess the quality of care for patients enrolled in Medical Insurance for a New Generation.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To assess the quality of care provided at medical units that provide services to Medical Insurance for a New Generation (SMNG) enrollees.
  
  
  METHODS
  The tracer methodology was used in a sample of 82 medical units selected in fifteen states of Mexico and data collected in November 2009.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Problems were found to locate the minimal number of the 18 medical charts requested in three of the tracers. The first level of care on the average reports that the quality of the process of care is 6, in a 10 point scale. In the second level improves and the third level of care is better qualified.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The tracer methodology has enabled us to assess the quality of care. There is room for improvement in the medical units of the state health services, to that end should be directed the efforts in the health system in Mexico.
authors.affiliation: División de Estudios de Posgrado, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México. lduran19@liceaga.facmed.unam.mx
authors.forename: Luis
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Durán-Arenas
authors.forename: Onofre
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Muñoz-Hernández
authors.forename: Luz Del Carmen
authors.initials: Ldel C
authors.lastname: Hernández-Ramírez
authors.forename: Luis
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Jasso-Gutiérrez
authors.forename: Samuel
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Flores
authors.forename: Vanessa
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Aldaz-Rodríguez
authors.forename: Juan Manuel
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Zurita
mesh_terms: D002675:Child, Preschool; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007348:Insurance, Health; D008800:Mexico; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000379:methods*; D019984:Quality Indicators, Health Care; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D019472:Universal Health Insurance