Análisis de la demanda de asistencia urológica en un centro de especialidades con una tasa elevada de inmigración

Abstract

The most common reason for consultation in the Spanish patient group was prostatic hypertrophy, American patients requested phymosis surgery or surgical sterilization, and South Asians visited for different sexual pathologies, which affected 56.8% of patients in this group. There were no significant differences in the number ofadditional examinations or in in the number of visits required for diagnosis between the different ethnic groups. One problem that we noted was the missed appointment rate for some patients, which is twice as high in the immigrant group as among Spanish patients and highest in the African and South Asian groups.

Hospital admissions in Alicante (Spain): a comparative analysis of foreign citizens from high-income countries, immigrants from low-income countries, and Spanish citizens

“…This result is consistent with previous reports of healthcare utilization by immigrant populations, like in primary care [21,22], specialized healthcare [23,24], emergency services [10-12], and hospitalization [13-17] in Spain and other European countries [6-9,25]. Our results corroborate the observation that the immigrant population has a lower hospitalization rate.…”