[Variability in the autonomous communities of the clinical recommendations in the service portfolios in primary care]. / Variabilidad en las recomendaciones clínicas en las carteras de servicios de atención primaria de las comunidades autónomas.

ABSTRACT

The quality guidelines established in Primary Care Service Portfolios of Autonomous Communities were analysed. It was observed that there were similarities in the number and content of the controls in children over 2 years-old, time intervals of cardiovascular risk and breast cancer mammography screening. Variability was observed in the number of controls (from 2 to 8) recommended for infants less than 2 years old, in the time intervals of monitoring parameters of patients with risk factors (for example, glycosylated haemoglobin in the diabetic every 2, 6, or 12 months), in the time intervals in cervical cytology (every 3 or 5 years) and in the age periods of performing the cytology (from 15, 20, 25, or 30 years up to 55 or 60 years) or mammography (from 45 or 50 years up to 60 or 65 years).