Abstract

PARANAGUA, Thatianny Tanferri de Brito et al. Indicators of care in a surgical clinic. Enferm. glob. [online]. 2016, vol.15, n.43, pp.228-239. ISSN 1695-6141.

This study aimed to characterize the hospitalizations occurred in the Surgical Clinic of a university hospital in the Midwest of Brazil. Descriptive, retrospective, cross-sectional study, carried out based on medical records for a total of 750 admissions. Collection of data took place from January to May of 2011 with aid of a structured and validated instrument. Descriptive statistical analyses were carried out. It was found that most admissions were elective (82.1%), with length of stay between two and eight days for 82.2% admissions. At least one surgery was recorded in 85.9% of the hospitalizations and doctors were professionals with high participation in the evolution of the patient, while the nurse presented evaluation record in 19.2% of the admissions. This highlights the need for professionals to rethink their actions in the health care and for the institutions to perform the systematization of the process of evaluation of clinical indicators, searching for quality and safety of the patient in the clinical practice.

Keywords : Quality Assessment Assistance; Process indicators; surgical patient care; nursing.

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