González RR

Language: Spanish
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ABSTRACT

Background: medical guard constitutes a formative scenario where professionals are in contact with patients and illnesses.
Objective: to characterize the medical guard in professionals of primary level of attention.
Methods: a descriptive and transversal study was carried out in the guard service belonging Pedro Borrás Astorga polyclinic in Pinar del Río, from January to June 2017. The universe of study was composed by 290 professionals attending to institutional medical guard's activities in the signal period. Bioethics aspects and the informed consent were respected.
Results: patients assisted by the medical guard were mainly females between 60 and more years of age. The characteristics of guard's team were distinguished for: professionals of Medicine, belonging to feminine sex, Assistant category, Master scientific category and the time of tutorship ≥5 years. Respiratory infections were grouped related to diagnosis made in the medical guard and within the indicators linked with this service the study of clinical laboratory was superior.
Conclusions: the medical guard constitutes a fundamental link in medical assistance services through capable health professionals.