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The Municipal People in the City of Caravaca takes the regular plenary session next Monday for debate and vote a motion calling on the Ministry of Health to implant the system of triage in the emergency department of the Regional Hospital Northwest.
This system will work with objective criteria and rationalization substantially improving the service and care to patients and their families, also improving communication with healthcare professionals and reducing own anxiety of those moments.
"The emergency department of the Regional Hospital Northwest is suffering a permanent increase in demand, so we have gone from 41,139 patients treated in 2010 to 45,658 patients treated in 2015 (almost 11% more) and an annual average of 43,159 patients, increasing the demand for health care gradually year after year in this service, making it difficult to fast and effective attention required of health professionals, which together with the high use of emergency rooms for care situations assimilated to a level 5 or non-urgent (according to statistics 60-65%) can you determine delays in health care of serious patients and generate negative consequences for the entire hospital, including increased health care costs, "he explained councilman Jose Antonio Furio Popular Party.
this system where present, is already implemented, is practiced under the premise that the urgent is not always serious and grave is not always urgent, allowing classifying patients from the degree of urgency, so that the most urgent patients They will be assisted first and the rest will be reevaluated to be seen by the doctor.
The workload of the emergency department determines a decrease in the quality of care so it is necessary to increase performance by organizing work.
"With this premise we understand that triage is an effective management system of care work to give an immediate response to massed demand for emergency services, and thus reduce the anxiety of patients and their families and to respond effectively and according to user demand, "he argued Furio.
"However we stress that patient care in that emergency department meets the clinical standards of comparable quality care to any hospital emergency department Murciano Health Service, paying attention to patients as quickly as possible and taking care to patients serious until they are admitted to hospital ward or transferred to UCI "has completed the popular councilman.
Source: PP Caravaca de la Cruz
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