Ochoa-Gómez J, Villar Arias A, Ramalle-Gómara E, Carpintero Escudero J M, Bragado Blas L, Ruiz Azpiazu J I
Servicio de Urgencias del Hospital San Millán de Logroño, C/Autonomía 3, 26004 Logroño, La Rioja.
An Med Interna. 2002 Sep;19(9):446-8.
The aim of this work is to know the proportion of inadequate urgent admissions in a general hospital.
A retrospective and descriptive study of patients admitted during 1,999 was performed. The Appropriatness Evaluation Protocol (AEP) was used in order to evaluate the appropriatness of the admissions.
Eighteen admissions (4.5%) were inadecuated. There was a higher proportion of inappropriate admission (IA) when the physician responsible of the admission was a medical specialist (internal medicine, hematology or nephrology): odds ratio 5.3 in opposite to emergency physicians (p < 0.03).
There was a low proportion of inadequate admissions (4.5%) and the risk of inappropriatness of the admission was major when it was ordered by a medical specialist.
