Presión asistencial y demora en las salas de fisioterapia de atención primaria en Andalucía

There is high variability in the Primary Health Care physiotherapist/inhabitant ratio in Andalusian physiotherapy rooms. An equation has been obtained for the calculation of the 'days of delay probability' until the initiation of physiotherapy for a normal-referred patient. The research shows how this probability of delay depends mainly on the total population assigned to each Primary Health Care physiotherapist, and on the delay caused by priority-referred patients. Having confirmed the relationship between these variables, increasing the human resources in those rooms with higher ratios seems to be an advisable and high priority action.