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Hospital a Domicilio
On-line version ISSN 2530-5115
Abstract
MARIN-NAVARRO, Viviana; FREIRE FIGUEROA, Francisco; POBLETE FIGUEROA, Christian and MONTT GARRIDO, Roberto. Kinesiology in hospital at home units in Chile. Hosp. domic. [online]. 2021, vol.5, n.1, pp.17-28. Epub Mar 08, 2021. ISSN 2530-5115. https://dx.doi.org/10.22585/hospdomic.v5i1.121.
Introduction:
Home hospitalization was created with the aim of being an alternative to traditional hospitalization, similar in resources and complexity. Among the attentions that can be delivered, is kinesiology. However, there is no specific information on the profile or work of these professionals in these units. Therefore, this work seeks to describe and characterize the work of kinesiologists who work in home hospitalization units in public hospitals in Chile.
Materials and Method:
Cross-sectional descriptive study carried out by means of a survey of kinesiologists who work in home hospitalization units in public hospitals in Chile between March and August 2019. The Rstudio software was used for the statistical analysis.
Results:
Of 82 hospitals surveyed, 59 have home hospitalization, of these, 45 have kinesiology. Among the most developed areas in adults are respiratory kinesiology (95.3%), motor kinesiology (93.4%), and neurorehabilitation (90.1%). In pediatrics it is respiratory kinesiology (28.1%). 32% of the units have a coordinator by profession kinesiologist.
Conclusions:
Kinesiology allows delivering different benefits at home to both adults and children. However, this arises according to the need of each hospital and is not defined at the national level, so it is proposed to move towards guidelines that allow the standardization of the incorporation of this profession to all home hospitalization units.
Keywords : Home Care Services; Home Care Services, Hospital-Based; Physical Therapy Specialty; Physical Therapy Modalities.