title: [Sociodemographic and clinical characteristic of the population attended in the Instituto Teletón de Santiago].
abstract: The Institutos Teletón care for 85% of the Chilean child population with neuromusculoskeletal disability, the large percentage concentrating in this population. However, there are no registers that enable a profile to be determined on this population.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To determine the profile of patients attending the Instituto Teletón de Santiago during the year 2012.
  
  
  METHODS
  The sociodemographic characteristics were analyzed from the computerised records of the Instituto Teletón de Santiago on active patients who were seen during the year 2012.
  
  
  RESULTS
  A total of 8,959 patients were seen during the study year in the Instituto Teletón de Santiago. As regards socioeconomic level, 33.3% were in extreme poverty, 28.7% to low-middle level. The main clinical diagnoses were cerebral palsy and other encephalopathies that also lead to motor disability, and accounted for 55.4% of the cases.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  As a result of determining this profile, it would be appropriate to encourage the need for a national register of the child population with disability, as well as their particular characteristics in order to make decisions on public policy, as a destination for funds or support programs.
authors.affiliation: Médico Fisiatra, Instituto Teletón de Santiago, Santiago, Chile. Electronic address: dgarcia@teleton.cl.
authors.forename: Daniela
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: García P
authors.affiliation: Ingeniero Estadístico, Instituto Teletón de Santiago, Santiago, Chile.
authors.forename: Pamela
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: San Martín P
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001927:Brain Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy*; D002547:Cerebral Palsy / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000628:therapy*; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D002677:Chile; D006233:Persons with Disabilities / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D009468:Neuromuscular Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy*; D011203:Poverty; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Cerebral palsy; Childhood disability; Discapacidad infantil; Epidemiology; Epidemiología; Parálisis cerebral; Rehabilitación; Rehabilitation