Avaliação da suspensão de cirurgia de catarata em idosos através de indicadores de qualidade e entrevistas

• Autor(a) principal: Magri, Micheli Patrícia de Fátima
• Data de Publicação: 2011
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da PUC_SP
• Texto Completo: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/12388
• topic: Idosos; Catarata senil; Suspensão de cirurgia; Elderly; Senile cataract; Surgery cancellation; CNPQ::CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS::SERVICO SOCIAL

This thesis is based on the theoretical and interdisciplinary issues surrounding eye health in the elderly and the socio-cultural barriers facilitators. The issue focuses on the elderly with visual impairment caused by cataract senile and needs to undergo an outpatient surgical procedure and, for reasons that are investigated here, can not or will delay the procedure. Research of the statements from the elderly, the reasons for the suspension of cataract surgery. The quantitative approach accounts for the collection and presentation of data obtained from documents and databases available, suitable for "translation" numeric (absolute and relative) in the period January to December 2009. The qualitative approach was conducted from interviews with older people who have benefited from cataract surgery. We used a "field journal" to record the situations that involve the suspension of cataract surgeries. We note that the results in the year 2009 had a total of 2,956 surgical schedule. Of these 78% (2306) were performed and 21% (650) were suspended. The clinical causes of hypertension and had the cough causes more prevalent. The rate of recovery varied between 73.2% to 84.7%. Indicators of surgery cancellation between 15.3% to 26.3%. We selected the stories that attracted the most attention by the content set out in its analysis. Seeking a deeper analysis of the data collected, other meanings were revealed regarding the issues considered as problems that caused the suspension of surgery in the lives of individuals and how they were treated in the health services at two levels: municipal and regional health. In assessing what caused the suspension of the surgery and cause the elderly to find that the financial and psychological impacts are most significant to the elderly respondents