COSTO BENEFICIO EN EL AREA DEL MANEJO DEL DOLOR DE PACIENTES ONCOLOGICOS EN EL HOSPITAL DE SOLCA Dr. JULIO VILLACRESES COLMONT EN EL PERIODO DE ENERO A DICIEMBRE DEL 2005

Abstract

The purpose bigger than the present investigation is the establishment of a costbenefit in the area of the handling of the pain of the patients of the oncological hospital SOLCA - Manabí of the year 2005. This work is a descriptive retrospective study, in which all the facts will be included, data stop then to quantify them and to analyze them and this way to justify the outlined objectives as much the general as the specific objectives. Starting from this one carries out the temario based in five complementary objectives with relationship to the biggest purpose, one of the data picked up in the record was the analgesic ones used in the area of handling of the certain pain this for one of the objectives and depending on this if a real cost-benefit exists in its therapy for the oncological pain, focused necessity because the patients are of limited economic resources, and this way to give a better quality of life. Based on the study fact he/she was defined what is COST, their classification, the elements that constitute it and the services that provide to the health. The cancer is a devastating illness that frequently drains the affective and financial resources of the family, therefore it is important to determine which the cost benefit is in the handling of the pain in patient oncological of the Hospital of SOLCA "Julio Villacreses Colmot" of the canton of Portoviejo, in the period of January to December of 2005. The determination of the information was picked up by means of sources secondary, that is to say by means of the clinical history, the same one that stops its quantitative tabulation a record of gathering of data was made, the one which this elaborated in structured form and containing in its majority the information of the variables. In the study you determines a number of 519 cases, of this he/she was carried out an analysis of those that gathered the following conditions: - To have a Cancer in stadium II, III or IV - That need of quimio or radiotherapy - That find state in previous treatment and that has relapsed - In patient the treatment has been refractory in whom The relationship cost / I benefit between pain and cost, it is really difficult toestablish parameters of conclusions however when not having pain the patient it experiences a state of such indulgence that no economic value can overcome it.