[Characteristics and analysis of survival of people served in the program of home care from the basic health area of Raval Nord, Barcelona, 1993-2002].

Background: Longer life expectancy has led to a progressive aging of the population and to growing sociosanitary homecare. This study is aimed at describing the population of patients suffering from chronic diseases having been provided with homecare throughout the first ten years that homecare was available by a primary care team at an urban Healthcare Center, to study how often this type of care was used and to analyze the survival of those individuals having been provided with this care.

Methods: A descriptive study.