Caracterización sociodemográfica y clínica de la población atendida en el Instituto Teletón de Santiago

Daniela García P.*, Pamela San Martín P.

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Resumen

The Institutos Teletón care for 85% of the Chilean child population with neuromusculoskeletal disability, the large percentage concentrating in this population. However, there are no registers that enable a profile to be determined on this population. Objective: To determine the profile of patients attending the Instituto Teletón de Santiago during the year 2012. Patients and method: The sociodemographic characteristics were analyzed from the computerised records of the Instituto Teletón de Santiago on active patients who were seen during the year 2012. Results: A total of 8,959 patients were seen during the study year in the Instituto Teletón de Santiago. As regards socioeconomic level, 33.3% were in extreme poverty, 28.7% to low-middle level. The main clinical diagnoses were cerebral palsy and other encephalopathies that also lead to motor disability, and accounted for 55.4% of the cases. Conclusions: As a result of determining this profile, it would be appropriate to encourage the need for a national register of the child population with disability, as well as their particular characteristics in order to make decisions on public policy, as a destination for funds or support programs.

Título traducido de la contribuciónSociodemographic and clinical characteristic of the population attended in the Instituto Teletón de Santiago
Idioma originalEspañol
Páginas (desde-hasta)161-167
Número de páginas7
PublicaciónRevista Chilena de Pediatria
Volumen86
N.º3
DOI
EstadoPublicada - 1 jun. 2015
Publicado de forma externa

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© 2015 Publicado por Elsevier España.

Palabras clave

  • Cerebral palsy
  • Childhood disability
  • Epidemiology
  • Rehabilitation

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