Patient Profile of a Family Medicine Training Center in Winter season in Ankara: Retrospective Analysis of Admissions
Journal Title: Eurasian Journal of Family Medicine - Year 2017, Vol 6, Issue 3
Abstract
Aim: Family physicians are in an ideal position to lead the nation's public health efforts. Patient profiles is a marvelous tool to obtain a comprehensive assessment of each subject. We aimed with this study, to detect to what extent does the patient profile and family medicine practices and to evaluate the demoghraphic features and diagnosis of the patients referred to the center. Methods: This is a cross sectional descriptive study. This study describes patient informations including demographic data (age, sex), demands of patients, primary complaint and number of complaints, primary diagnosis, diagnostic tests, controls, referrals and consultations of all applications in the 3 months. Results: There were 4429 recorded patients. 69.1% of patients applied for medical examination and 18.2% for prescription. Cough, fever, headache, sore throat were the most declared first complaints respectively. While the most frequent diagnosis was upper respiratory tract infections 36.6%, and hypertension 7.4%; in 9.1% of the patients there was no diagnosis. Conclusion: The primary care services are located at center of organization of the health services. The health problems are largely resolved at a society with systematized primary health care services by increasing the awareness of recording and reporting in primary care.
Authors and Affiliations
Emel Aygul Dogan, Adem Ozkara, Ismail Kasım, Duygu Ayhan Baser, İrfan Sencan, Rabia Kahveci
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