Resultados en calidad asistencial de la hospitalización de la exacerbación grave de la EPOC en un hospital de tercer nivel y comparativa con dos hospitales comarcales / Comparative results in the quality of hospitalization care inserious exacerbations of COPD between third level and regional hospitals

INTRODUCCIÓN: la EPOC es una enfermedad con una elevada prevalencia, alta mortalidad intrahospitalaria y reingresos frecuentes. Una adecuada atención clínica podría influir en estos resultados. OBJETIVOS: conocer los resultados en calidad asistencial de la hospitalización de las exacerbaciones graves de la EPOC en un hospital de tercer nivel y en dos hospitales comarcales de dos regiones distintas, comparando indicadores de resultado en cada uno de los tres ámbitos. MATERIAL Y MÉTODOS: estudio multicéntrico, observacional y transversal que incluyó una cohorte consecutiva de ingresos hospitalarios por descompensación de EPOC entre el 1 de enero de 2013 y el 31 de diciembre de 2013. Se seleccionó a los pacientes mediante el cribado de las bases de datos proporcionadas por el servicio de documentación clínica de cada hospital. RESULTADOS: se incluyeron un total de 503 ingresos: Hospital Universitario Reina Sofía (HURS) (n=166; 33%), Hospital Infanta Margarita, de Cabra (HIM) (n=209; 41,6%) y Hospital San Agustín, de Linares (HSA) (n=128; 25,4%). En el HURS, los pacientes fueron significativamente más jóvenes (66,3 ± 8,2 años), (p< 0,001). El tiempo medio de estancia hospitalaria fue de 9,38 ± 7,3 días y la tasa global de mortalidad hospitalaria fue de 6% (n=30). CONCLUSIONES: la calidad asistencial de la hospitalización de la agudización de la EPOC, medida en términos de indicadores de resultados, no difiere de la publicada en la literatura, encontrando incluso una mejor calidad asistencial si tenemos en cuenta la menor mortalidad registrada en el hospital de tercer nivel analizado

INTRODUCTION: COPD is a highly prevalent disease with elevated intra-hospital mortality and frequent re-admittance to hospital. Appropriate clinical care could influence these results. OBJECTIVES: know the results regarding the quality of hospital care due to serious exacerbations of COPD at third level (reference) hospitals and at two different regional hospitals, comparing the resulting indicators for each. MATERIAL AND METHODS: multi-center, observational and cross-sectional study that included a consecutive cohort of hospital admissions due to COPD decompensation, between January 1, 2013 and December 31, 2013. Patients were selected using a database screening provided by the clinical documentation service at each hospital. RESULTS: a total of 503 admissions were included: Hospital Universitario Reina Sofía (HURS) (n=166; 33%), Hospital Infanta Margarita, in the town of Cabra (HIM) (n=209; 41.6%) and Hospital San Agustín, in the town of Linares (HSA) (n=128; 25.4%). At HURS, the patients were significantly younger (66.3 ± 8.2 years), (p< 0,001). The average hospital stay was 9.38 ± 7.3 days and the overall hospital mortality rate was 6% (n=30). CONCLUSIONS: the quality of hospital care due to exacerbated COPD, measured in terms of result indicators, does not differ from what has been published in the literature. Even better quality hospital care was found when considering the lesser mortality rate seen in the third level hospital analyzed

[Usefulness of bronchofiberscopy in the study of pleural effusion]. / Utilidad de la broncofibroscopia en el estudio del derrame pleural.

We revised our own experience in 208 patients with pleural effusion to whom fiberoptic bronchoscopy was made in part of the diagnostic study. In our population the most frequent cause was neoplastic origen, observing that in 97 patients (46%), 60 of them were due to bronchogenic carcinoma. In relation to the presentation symptoms, just when haemoptysis was present bronchoscopy exhibited bigger diagnostic profitability (17 of 29), p < 0.001. There were 106 patients (51%) who had some or several parenchymatic injuries going with the pleural effusion. In this group, in 55 cases, fiberoptic bronchoscopy was useful to the diagnosis; on the contrary when the only radiologic abnormality was pleural effusion, 102 cases, in 96 of them the procedure was not diagnostic, p < 0.001. A close relationship was noticed between diagnostic profitability of bronchoscopy with the existence of pulmonary neoplasm; about the 61 diagnosed patients using bronchoscopy, 53 of them had bronchogenic carcinoma, p < 0.001. We conclude then in our experience bronchoscopy is useful to the diagnosis of pleural effusion if it goes with haemoptysis or parenchymatic lesions in the radioly. Its diagnostic profitability has close relationship with the existence of bronchogenic carcinoma.