Evaluation of the health care process of elder people with respiratory diseases treated with herbal medical products. Municipality of Colon

Abstract

Background: currently many people surpass the chronological barriers limiting the old age stage, and this can become a problem if adequate solutions are not given to the consequences derived from it.

Objective: to evaluate the health care processes of elder people treated with herbal medical products.

Materials and methods: a cross-sectional, observational, descriptive study was carried out in 861 elder people with acute respiratory infection (ARI) treated with herbal medical products in the medical consultations belonging to the Policlinic “Dr. Francisco Figueroa Véliz” of the municipality of Colon, province of Matanzas, in the period July-December 2015. The indicators analyzed were elder people with acute respiratory infection treated with herbal medical products registered in the consultations, their medical follow-up, correct indication of herbal medical products, indication of complementary tests, inter- consultations and behavior of the quality certifications emitted for the elaborated production. For collecting information, it was used an instrument validated in its functioning.

Results: of the six indicators evaluated, the follow-up to elder people with ARI treated with herbal medical products did not reach the average standards because in only 95 % of the clinical records it was registered; the quality certification was also deficient, because only the 81 % of the 220 lots elaborated was analyzed by quality control, therefore the component Process is not suitable. 

Conclusions: all the organizational units of the health area have problems with the developed process.