Introduction:

Home hospitalization was born as a service that provides acute, home and complex interventions in the short term. In the Regional Hospital of Talca this unit is 7 years old, this study seeks to determine in the population that enters the unit, clinical characteristics and comorbidities.

Method:

Retrospective, descriptive analytical study, information collected by interview, data are collected during the year 2019, with a descriptive analysis of the study variables, continuous variables were described as mean and standard deviations, categorical variables as absolute frequencies and percentages, for the statistical analysis was used Microsoft Excel 2016

Results:

The Home Hospitalization Unit during 2019 admitted 484 patients, representing an increase of 233.8%. Within the study variables, the month with the most admissions was July with 50 patients, the average age was 64.9 years (SD 3.34 years), female (60.95%), Married (47.3%) , did not perform physical activity (76.5%), with normal BMI (34.7%), within the comorbidities, HT and DM had a higher incidence with 329 and 209 diagnoses respectively, the most derived pathology was urinary infections (32.2%).

Conclusions:

The present work shows the variability of admitted patients, reduced costs and less use of medical supplies, improved physical activity and reduced acquired disability, decreased readmission, being an effective, efficient, safe care modality, with a high satisfaction rate without compromising quality and patient safety.

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