[Surgical patients hospital home care program: two years evaluation].

Objective: To evaluate the results after two years of the implementation of surgical patients' hospital home care program in Consort. Hospitalari de Vic.

Method: Longitudinal study conducted between January 2011 and December 2012 on patients enrolled in hospital home care program patients.

[Descriptive study of the results of nursing interventions applied to surgical patients].

Objectives: Knowing the evolution of health outcomes of surgical patients during their hospital stay, evaluating NOC outcome criteria at admission and discharge.

Material And Methods: Prospective observational study conducted in the surgical hospital wards of the Hospital General de Vic, with patients who required surgical intervention of any specialty, of 18 or more years old and anesthetic risk levels I, II or III. The main outcome variables were indicators associates with each NOC of a standard of care based on the "patient type" concept.

[The concept of "patient type": utility for the care of surgical patients].

Objective: To describe a model of surgical "patient type" by identifying the needs and characteristics of surgical patients.

Method: We performed a cross-sectional study of surgical patients with one or more diseases and similar needs and/or characteristics admitted to the surgical wards of a general hospital over a 10-month period. The variables analyzed were sociodemographic and clinical data, degree of autonomy, and Virginia Henderson's needs, which were identified through an interview performed in the postoperative period.