Searching for the Effectiveness of the Information System in Primary Health Care in Castille-Leon

Abstract

Background: In Castille-Leon, there is and information system in Primary Health Care. The target is to describe severa1 operativity indicators in a primary health care center with the date collected with this system and indirectly, to iniciate its evaluation. Methods: The study was carried out in an urban primary health care center in Valladolid. A descriptive analysis of the data, related to the health problems demanded in 1990, collected in first sampling during a week of every month, is carried out. Results: The global work load was 30-2 problems demaded to the doctor per day. The 5.7% of consult were home visits, and the prevailing problems were circulatory and respiratory. Per 100 problems, 10 laboratory test, 4.4 radiographies, 1.4 electrocardiograms and 5.25 other different tests were required. No adecuate nor periodical informations was received from the administration to which data were sent. Conclusions: Insufficiency in the system to characterize in an adecuate way, the health care activities complexity and lack of use of the provided data and of analysis.