Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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8767126 | Revista Clínica Española | 2017 | 8 Pages |
Abstract
The Spanish Society of Internal Medicine has developed a consensus document on the standards and recommendations that they consider essential to the organisation of internal medicine units for conducting their activities efficiently and with high quality. We defined 3 groups of key processes: the care of acutely ill adult patients, the comprehensive care of complex chronic patients and the examination of a patient with a difficult diagnosis and no organ-specific disease. As support processes, we identified the structure and operation of the Internal Medicine units. As strategic processes, we identified training and research. The main subprocesses are structured below, and we established the standards and recommendations for each of them. Lastly, we proposed resulting workloads. The prepared standards must be reviewed within a maximum of 4 years.
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Authors
E. Casariego-Vales, A. Zapatero-Gaviria, F.J. Elola-Somoza, en nombre del Comité de Estándares de Unidades de Medicina Interna en nombre del Comité de Estándares de Unidades de Medicina Interna,