Abstract

ROSA-JIMENEZ, F. et al. Impacto de los sistemas automatizados en un modelo de consulta de alta resolución. An. Med. Interna (Madrid) [online]. 2005, vol.22, n.11, pp.511-514. ISSN 0212-7199.

Objective: To analyse the impact of computerised systems in Radiology and Laboratory Departments on the reduction in the waiting time of the patients attending to an Internal Medicine outpatient consultation organised in a high resolution model. Methods: For one year, we studied the delay in diagnostic explorations (laboratory test, simple radiology, ultrasonic diagnostics and brain scanner) that were all applied for and performed in a single day. We compared the traditional organization (n = 312 explorations), in which the results were handed in by hospital auxiliary staff, to a computerised method (n = 457 explorations), which was implemented via our intranet. Results: The global delay decreased 10% in average, the differences being significant only for the variables "brain scanner" (12.7%) and "laboratory" (19%). The average reduction in the waiting time per patient was 11.7%, ranging from 7.8% (when only one exploration was performed) to 13.2% (when 2 explorations were carried out). The percentage of patients who needed to wait more than 3 hours to receive their results also diminished significantly. Conclusion: The implementation of computerised systems reduced the waiting time to receive the results of complementary explorations. However, our results were not homogeneous for the different explorations.

Keywords : Intranet; Delay; Just-one-day consultation; Diagnostic explorations; Outpatient; High resolution.

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