The Ministry of Health believes that with an increased number of patients being treated in complex procedures such as cardiac surgery, results have improved, and this has been made known in its allegations to the court.
Euskaraz irakurri: Osakidetzak argudiatu du hobetzeko “ebidentziazientifikoa” dagoela bihotzeko kirurgia Gurutzetara eramateko
The Ministry of Health and Osakidetza argued in court that it: as a precaution paralyzed the transfer of cardiac surgery from Basurto to Cruces What is “scientific evidence”? with the highest number of treated patients Complex procedures like this improve the results.
Health has presented the allegations to the court, the summary of which was made public this Friday.
There are four arguments: first, that the cardiac surgery project in Biscay does not entail the closure or disappearance of cardiac surgery services, so that everyone in need of heart surgery in the Basque Country is guaranteed to be helped by Osakidetza. In fact, “the main reason for implementing this measure has been to improve aid to the population.”
In that sense, it ensures that the transfer is justified in the “scientific evidence”which stipulates that the greater the number of patients to be treated with highly complex procedures, the better the health outcomes and the fewer complications and side effects”.
According to Osakidetza, the health systems of the United Kingdom (NHS), Canada and Medicare in the United States have taken steps to centralize heart surgery, and the Spanish Society of Thoracic Cardiovascular Surgery recommends that the reference population of a surgical team should be approximately 1.5 million. inhabitants and that the fragmentation of activity is an important factor in the reduction in quality.
Likewise, it notes that the number of large cases must be greater than 600 per center and year and in no case less than 250. “These are arguments that support the decision to merge and recommend that patients with this pathology be transferred to the hospital.” with more experience to focus business,” Salud insisted.
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Source: EITB
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