Characterization of gastric problems in users of a hospital in Huancavelica, Peru

• Autores: Nieva-Villegas, Lilia Maria, Carhuachuco-Rojas, Elsy Sara, Gómez-Gonzales, Walter
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2020
• Institución: Universidad de Huánuco
• Repositorio: Revista UDH - Revista Peruana de Ciencias de la Salud
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:ojs.revistas.udh.edu.pe:article/124
• Enlace del recurso: http://revistas.udh.edu.pe/index.php/RPCS/article/view/124
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: estudios transversales; estudios retrospectivos; gastroenterología; alta del paciente; recurrente epitelial; distrofas corneales; hereditarias; seguro; registros médicos; remisión y consulta; gastritis

Objective. To characterize the gastric problems of user population of the Regional Hospital of Huancavelica Zacarias Correa Valdivia in the years 2015-2017. Method. It is a descriptive, cross-sectional, nonexperimental, retrospective and bibliographic study, with a bibliographic review of the Health Information System (HIS) and medical records of patients treated with gastric problems in the years mentioned (n = 3261). Results. It was evidenced that 67 % of the population are women. 34.7 % were born in the Huancavelica region. 93.7 % had ofce work. 78.1 % were users of the gastroenterology service. 93.7 % did not report their discharge status. 34.5 % did not have a health insurance system, and 61.7 % of the population suffered from nonspecifc chronic gastritis. Patients diagnosed with gastric problems represented 64.9 % of cases in 2015, 55.4 % in 2016 and 64.3 % of total consultations in 2017. Conclusion. Women presented the highest frequency of diagnosis of chronic non-specifc gastritis, as well as young people and young adults for the year 2017 according to the total number of diagnoses retrospectively observed in the HIS report