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Los españoles tardan de media 82 días en conseguir el diagnóstico de un especialista
El tiempo para la primera visita al experto baja, según una encuesta de la OCU
La organización registra un repunte de la espera para la prueba diagnóstica desde 2008
Emilio de Benito Madrid 22 NOV 2012 - 12:54 CET
The Spanish take on average 82 days to get a diagnosis from a specialist
The time for the first visit to the low skilled, a survey of the OCU
The organization recorded a surge of waiting for the diagnostic test since 2008
Emilio de Benito Madrid 22 NOV 2012 - 12:54 CET
A lack of official data, prompting users. That is the approach taken by the Organization of Consumers and Users (OCU) to the "lack of transparency" of the authorities in regard to health waiting lists, according to his spokesman said, Ileana Izverniceanu. The result after almost 16,000 patients ask health centers of 56 cities in 17 regions is that the average time to receive a diagnosis from a specialist is 82 days. This figure is obtained by adding what it takes to be received by the specialist at the first visit plus what it takes for the diagnostic test and the second visit to a specialist for a diagnosis.
The data continues to be "unacceptable" for the OCU, despite the fact that the data shows a substantial reduction since such surveys began to do in 2004. Then time was 152 days. The organization does this work only every four years, so that, as recognized Izverniceanu, can yield a falsely positive picture: in 2008 the time was 121 days. But OCU no doubt that the data are worse in recent years because of the cuts, and says that the next survey scheduled for 2016, will be when you see.
In fact, there is a worsening in regard to the diagnostic test, which in 2008 had a delay of 44 days in 2012 and was at 54 days, according to the survey. The organization also notes that in the data there may be some effect of statistical manipulation. "The growing waiting times in the second and third visit. It's like concentrating efforts only in the first few visits, which are being published, "says Izverniceanu.
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Apart from -82 days data is "clearly excessive, think of the anguish of a patient who does not know if what you have is serious," Izverniceanu. "The medical procedure should not take more than 60 days on average" - work highlights several aspects. First, the lack of transparency makes communities not to compare the results of the survey with the official data. This newspaper tried a couple of months to get the information from official sources, and it was not possible to obtain comparable data from more than 10 of the 17 communities. Even so, the figures agree fairly: waiting for consultation with a specialist is 49 days according to the OCU, of 46.55 days as calculated by this newspaper.
In addition, there is another problem. While official data on the expected surgical specialties should fall every six months, the Ministry of Health only has the December, 2011, said Monica Shack, technical manager of the study.
Although data were also the survey goes beyond, as the ministry, by a pact of silence with communities, no disaggregated data autonomies. And data from the country or from the OCU agree that the differences are huge. For example, for the specialist visit can take 105 days and 20 in Balearic Islands, Izverniceanu said. "This means that there are citizens first, second, third and even fourth". In this aspect, where evolution has been better since 2004 in Murcia, which has since lowered the expected 59.7%, the worst, Castilla-La Mancha, which had soared 134.8%. And that despite the fact that in this community there is a law that sets the maximum wait 7 days for a test and 15 for the specialist, as OCU spokeswoman. And the data obtained in the survey organization are being at 82 and 54 days respectively.
The regional laws of timeouts are not met
Similarly, if there are large differences between communities, there are also specialties. The first date of otolaryngology takes 37 days on average in Spain, and neurology, 54.
In this situation, the OCU has taken several initiatives. First, encourage users to complain at the office of patient care when your timeout is triggered. To know if the term of each is within a half or so fixed by law, the organization has created an interactive tool for comparing the expected and whether there is a law that is violated.
The second has been to send the results to the ministry and ask communities and transparency in these data. "We are not children of kindergarten," complained Izverniceanu. The claim was made on Wednesday, so there has been no response yet.
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