Hospital admission for digestive diseases: Gastroenterology units offer a more effective and efficient care.
Dig Liver Dis
; 51(1): 43-46, 2019 01.
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ABSTRACT
BACKGROUND:
Digestive diseases imply a substantial burden for health care systems. Effectiveness of specialized gastroenterology care has been demonstrated in a few real life surveys.AIMS:
To perform an in-depth analysis of Hospital Discharge Records (HDRs) of patients admitted for digestive diseases (DDs) from all Italian regions over the years 2010-2014.METHODS:
Data on National HDRs were provided by the Italian Health Ministry.RESULTS:
During the years 2010-2014, a mean of 949,830 patients with DDs were admitted to hospital per year, representing 10.0% of all admissions in Italy. Only 7.4% of patients with DDs were admitted to Gastroenterology units due to the limited number of the specialty-focused beds (3.4/100,000 inhabitants). DDs urgent admissions in Gastroenterology units represented 33% of admissions. The mean length of stay was 8.1â¯days in Gastroenterology units, as opposed to 8.3 in other units. Mortality rate for DDs altogether, for urgent admissions, and for urgent admissions with bleeding were 2.2%, 1.7%, 2.2% in Gastroenterology units, and 3.1%, 3.9%, 3.5% in other units, respectively. DDs admissions were appropriate in 81.3% in Gastroenterology units as opposed to 66.6% in all other units.CONCLUSIONS:
Gastroenterology units offer a better specific care in terms of length of hospital stay and mortality even for patients admitted for emergent conditions.Palabras clave
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Asunto principal:
Alta del Paciente
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Enfermedades del Sistema Digestivo
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Tiempo de Internación
Tipo de estudio:
Qualitative_research
Límite:
Humans
País como asunto:
Europa
Idioma:
En
Año:
2019
Tipo del documento:
Article