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Lescano, F., Mari, A. (2022). Frecuencia de referencias injustificadas, en base a diagnósticos no pertinentes, realizadas al servicio de consulta externa adultos del Hospital Cayetano Heredia, Lima - abril a diciembre del 2019, y sus características [Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia]. https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12866/11937
Lescano, F., Mari, A. Frecuencia de referencias injustificadas, en base a diagnósticos no pertinentes, realizadas al servicio de consulta externa adultos del Hospital Cayetano Heredia, Lima - abril a diciembre del 2019, y sus características []. PE: Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia; 2022. https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12866/11937
@misc{renati/910364,
title = "Frecuencia de referencias injustificadas, en base a diagnósticos no pertinentes, realizadas al servicio de consulta externa adultos del Hospital Cayetano Heredia, Lima - abril a diciembre del 2019, y sus características",
author = "Mari Nakasone, Adriana Kaori",
publisher = "Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia",
year = "2022"
}
Background: Referrals allow us to transfer users and diagnostic elements from primary care to higher levels of care. The entity of the Ministry of Health of Peru in charge of the Northern area of Lima, made a list of inappropriate diagnoses to be referred to hospitals, considering all referrals that include them as "unjustified". Objective: To determine the frequency of unjustified referrals sent to the adult outpatient clinic of Cayetano Heredia Hospital from April to December 2019, and to describe their features. Materials and methods: Cross-sectional, observational, and descriptive study. Data was collected from the Peruvian-referral-app using a population of 99 891 referrals. The variables were “justification for the referral”, age, sex, age group, specialty referred to, category of the health facility of origin, district of origin, and diagnosis. A descriptive analysis was made. Results: The frequency of unjustified referrals was of 8.36%. 34.2% were from adult patients and 65.8% were from elderly patients. 67% were from female patients. The 5 most unjustified referred specialties were Cardiology, Geriatrics, Internal Medicine, Family Medicine, and Neurology. The most frequent diagnoses were Primary Hypertension, Low back pain and Headache. Conclusion: In 2019, the unjustified referrals based on inappropriate diagnoses were an 8.36%, despite the issuance of a list of diagnoses that should not be referred to Northern Lima hospitals.
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