FACTORS RELATED TO PROLONGED HOSPITALIZATION IN A NEUROSURGIC WARD

Abstract

Introduction: Hospitalization significantly changes patient’s life. Hospitalization, often crucial to the success of the therapeutic plan, becomes harmful with its extension. Objectives: analyze factors associated with prolonged hospitalization (PH) o neurosurgical patients; trace sociodemographic and clinical profile; verify the association of PI with sociodemographic and clinical characteristics. Method: This is a quantitative, cross-sectional analytical research, performe in a neurosurgical ward of a public hospital that is a reference in neurology. The sample consisted of 93 medical records. To verify te association between the variables, the significance level was considered with p<0.05. The research was approved by the Research Ethics Committee. Result: The average of PH time was 27.4 days. In the studied population, there is a predominance of males, who declared themselves black, from the interior of the State of Bahia, aged between 50 and 60 years. The most prevalent diagnosis was neoplasm of uncertain behavior, having tumor resection microsurgery as the most performed procedure, in addition to the identification of important operational complications. There was no statistically significant association between the variables analyzed. Conclusions: The study made it possible to identify the sociodemographic and clinical profile of the patient assisted in the neurosurgical ward who presented PH. Despite not identifying the association between the variables examined, this research provided visibility to the high occurrence of this harmful extension.