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      Version pediátrica del protocolo de evaluación de la adecuación (PAE): Aplicación a los cuatro Grupos Diagnósticos relacionados más frecuentes en un hospital infantil de la Coruña Translated title: Paediatricversion of the adequacy evaluation protocol (AEP): its application to the four most frequent diagnosis related groups in a cchildren's hospital in La Coruña

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          FUNDAMENTO: Existe un amplio consenso en que una parte de la utilización de los recursos hospitalarios es inadecuada, en el sentido de que los pacientes reciben servicios que no les proporcionan beneficios significativos, o bien, que podrían ser más beneficiosos, o menos costosos, en un nivel asistencial inferior. El objetivo principal de este trabajo es determinar, mediante la aplicación retrospectiva de la versión pediátrica del Protocolo de Evaluación de la Adecuación (AEP), el porcentaje de ingresos y estancias inadecuadas de los 4 Grupos Relacionados con el Diagnóstico (GDR) más frecuentes en un hospital materno-infantil. MÉTODO: Se trata de un estudio retrospectivo en el que se analizan 353 historias clínicas (HC) de las 361 que constituyen la población de estudio. Como análisis estadístico se utiliza Chi cuadrado y análisis de tendencia lineal. Sobre las medias obtenidas se aplicó un análisis de la varianza y la prueba de comparación múltiple de Scheffé. RESULTADOS: Las admisiones fueron juzgadas como adecuadas en 284 (80,5%) de los casos e inadecuadas en 69 (19,5%). El 76% de las estancias revisadas fueron juzgadas como apropiadas y el 24% como inapropiadas. En el GDR 030 (estupor y coma de origen traumático, coma<1 hora, edad 0-17) se aprecia una relación directa entre duración de la estancia y uso inapropiado de la hospitalización. CONCLUSIONES: De los resultados de este estudio se desprende que una sustancial proporción de la utilización en el hospital es inapropiada y que, particularmente en el GDR 030, es probable se esté efectuando un manejo especialmente conservador.

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          BACKGROUND: There is wide-spread consensus that a part of the use of hospital resources is inadequate in the sense that the patients receive services that do not provide them with any significant benefits, or that could be more beneficial, or less costly, with a lower care standard. The main aim of this work is to determine the percentage of inadequate admissions and stays in hospital for the four most frequent Diagnosis-Related Groups (DRGs) in a maternity-children's hospital through the retrospective application of the paediatric version of the Adequacy Evaluation Protocol (AEP). METHOD: It was a retrospective study in which 353 out of the 361 medical records that made up the covered population were analysed. Chi-square and linear trend were the statistical analysis methods used. A variance analysis and the Scheffé multiple comparison test were applied to the average values obtained. RESULTS: The admissions were judged to be adequate in 284 (80.5%) of the cases and inadequate in 69 (19.5%). Of the stays in hospital, 76% were deemed to be appropriate and 24% inappropriate. In DRG 030 (stupor and trauma-related coma, coma<1 hour, age 0-17), a direct relation can be found between the length of the stay in hospital and the inappropriate use of hospitalisation. CONCLUSIONS: The results of this study show that a substantial proportion of the use of the hospital is inappropriate and that, particularly in DRG 030, this use is probably handled in an overly conservative way.

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          A major national health policy objective is to improve the efficiency of hospital utilization. To evaluate programmatic interventions with this objective, such as the Professional Standards Review Organization program, measures of appropriate use are a fundamental need. This report represents the results of two developmental trials of a new technique, labeled the Appropriateness Evaluation Protocol (AEP), for assessing potentially unnecessary hospital days of care. Twenty-seven objective criteria items related to medical services, nursing/life support services and patient condition factors were incorporated in the protocol. If any one of the criteria was met, the day was deemed "appropriate," and if none was met, the day was deemed "inappropriate" at an acute hospital level of care. A reviewer could override the objective criteria in either direction in reaching a final judgment. Three reviewers, two nurses and one physician each reviewed 200 charts at a teaching hospital. After correcting for a small number of abstracting errors, overall agreement rates between pairs of reviewers ranged from 92 to 94 per cent, levels significant p less than 0.0001. Of all cases judged inappropriate by at least one of the reviewers, specific agreement rates for the reviewer pairs on which days were inappropriate ranged from 73 to 79 per cent. These overall agreement rates and specific agreement rates on days of care judged as inappropriate are higher than those of any previously reported assessment methods. A parallel study of the appropriateness of admissions in these same cases, using purely subjective reviewer judgments, found overall agreement rates averaging 90 per cent, but rates of specific agreement on inappropriate admissions were less than 40 per cent between pairs of reviewers. Along with comparisons to other, more subjective, assessment techniques, this finding suggests that objective criteria are a vital element in developing methodologically sound techniques for assessing appropriate hospital use.
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              To assess the extent of inappropriate hospital use in pediatric inpatients, I modified the Appropriateness Evaluation Protocol (AEP)--developed to assess inappropriate hospital use in adults--to apply to children and used it to evaluate pediatric inpatients retrospectively for every 10th day, from July 1982 to July 1983, at the University of Wisconsin Hospital. Of 1098 patient-days evaluated, 21.4 percent were judged to represent inappropriate hospital use on the basis of the protocol's criteria. The rate of inappropriate use varied according to admitting specialty, ranging from 7 of 70 days (10 percent) for pulmonary medicine to 43 of 61 days (70 percent) for neurology (P less than 0.005). There was a tendency toward lower rates of inappropriate use in uninsured patients (6 of 44 days [14 percent] vs. 226 of 1038 days [22 percent] in patients with Medicaid or private insurance, P = 0.13), and rates were lower in younger children (74 of 432 days [17 percent] in children less than or equal to 5 years of age vs. 162 of 656 days [25 percent] in children greater than 5 years of age, P less than 0.005). There was no variation according to sex, day of the week, or month. Contrary to expectations, inappropriate use decreased with increased lengths of stay (for stays of 1 day, 8 of 13 days were inappropriate [61 percent]; for stays of 2 to 6 days, 118 of 410 days were inappropriate [29 percent]; for 7 to 13 days, 58 of 291 [20 percent]; and for greater than or equal to 14 days, 51 of 362 [14 percent], P less than 0.001). I conclude that there is a substantial rate of inappropriate hospital use in pediatrics and that such use is more likely during short admissions than during long ones. Cost-containment efforts directed at limiting the length of hospitalization may therefore not reduce inappropriate hospital use in this population.
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                Journal
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                Revista Española de Salud Pública
                Rev. Esp. Salud Publica
                Ministerio de Sanidad, Consumo y Bienestar social (Madrid, Madrid, Spain )
                1135-5727
                2173-9110
                May 1997
                : 71
                : 3
                : 249-255
                Affiliations
                [03] La Coruña orgnameInstituto Médico Quirúrgico San Rafael
                [01] Ferrol orgnameEscuela Universitaria de Enfermería
                [02] La Coruña orgnameComplejo hospitalario Juan Canalejo
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                S1135-57271997000300004 S1135-5727(97)07100300004
                10.1590/s1135-57271997000300004
                06b93ed9-5e94-4bae-855a-2febed090861

                This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 International License.

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                Diagnosis-related Groups,Number of times in hospital,Frecuentación hospitalaria,Paediatrics,Grupos Diagnósticos Relacionados,Pediátría

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