Automated system of provincial statistical control of patients with vascular injury

Abstract

The vascular trauma is the cause of high mortality within the range of traumas experienced by the population. The analysis of data collected in five years (2004-2008) on the behavior of 213 deaths from fatal vascular trauma, and 23 patients with nonfatal vascular lesions at the Arnaldo Milian Castro Provincial University Hospital in Villa Clara province was performed by designing an automated system of provincial statistical monitoring of patients with vascular lesions. Currently, there is a complex situation with the record of deaths and autopsy records of patients with fatal injuries in the Provincial Department of Forensic Medicine in Villa Clara. Therefore, the designing a database that allows studying fatal vascular lesions emerges as a need.  There is also difficulty in obtaining data from the Statistics Department of the Hospital. Therefore, we set ourselves the objective of designing an automated system of provincial statistical control of patients with vascular lesions. Specifically, to recover as much information from previous years, to get accurate information for each patient afflicted with vascular lesions, to provide support to hospital management in resource planning and to get updated statistical information for the work of health professionals and managers. The benefits of its use lie on the energy savings, social benefits, import substitution, increased production or services as it means an increase in statistical services, reducing costs and the battle of ideas as it helps the improvement of the health system through a computerized system. It also allows maintaining a tight control of patients from the time when the vascular trauma occurs to his arrival in our health units, as well as the results of all examinations and treatments. It provides the chance to make and store the data of each one of these patients and the possibility to summarize useful statistical information in different studies to assess possible causes of the increase in these vascular traumas in recent years and helps prevent them, if possible. This database system provides social, economic and scientific advantages. Its solutions are still valid and updated and, therefore, its generalization is beneficial.