Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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2617709 | Fisioterapia | 2010 | 8 Pages |
Abstract
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.
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Authors
A.M. Mesa Ruiz, R. López Liria, P. Garrido Fernández, P. Rocamora Pérez, M. Fernández Sánchez, S. Pérez de la Cruz,