Publications by authors named "David Oterino de la Fuente"
Objective: To describe the characteristics of advertising in Spanish medical journals and to analyze the advertising message in drug advertisements.
Methods: Six issues of 4 Spanish medical journals published in 2001 were reviewed to identify the number of advertisements and their characteristics. The journals selected were Atención Primaria, Anales Españoles de Pediatría, Medicina Clínica and Gaceta Sanitaria.
Objective: To describe primary care and hospital emergency utilization rates in Asturias health districts from 1994 to 2001 and to analyse their variability.
Methods: Hospital and primary care rates from 1994 to 2001 in the 8 Asturias health districts were estimated. Their variability was analysed using indirect standardisation and small area variation statistics.
Background: Greater accessibility to the primary care continuing care points (CCP's) could reduce the visits to the Hospital Emergency Services (HES's). This study analyses whether Primary Care can replace and Hospital Services in emergencies.
Methods: All of the emergency visits (n=6.
Background: Unnecessary admissions of acute cases have major impacts on hospital efficiency and organization. This study is aimed to identify percentage of unnecessary admissions from a hospital emergency department and the reasons why, as well as to quantify the unnecessary hospital days of care generated by these admissions.
Methods: It has been analyzed the appropriateness of 622 admissions made in 2002, selected at random, all of the hospital stays generated by the inappropriate admissions and a representative sample of the appropriate admissions of a second-level hospital in Asturias.