Análisis retrospectivo de historias clínicas de pacientes con coagulopatías que recibieron tratamiento con warfarina durante el período julio-diciembre del 2018 en el servicio de consulta externa del Hospital General Docente de Calderón

Abstract

The objective of this research was to learn through statistical data the effectiveness of Warfarin for different coagulopathies. For which, a retrospective analysis of medical records was carried out of patients with coagulopathies who received treatment with this coumarin, in the period July-December 2018, in the outpatient basis services of the Hospital General Docente of Calderón, in the city of Quito. An explanatory, transversal, non-experimental, inferential, and qualitative and quantitative research was carried out. The population was made by 88 the medical records of patients treated with Warfarin. Selected according to the Inclusion and exclusion criteria of patients older than 18 years old in anticoagulant therapy with Warfarin, monotherapy, comorbidities that follow-up control on outpatient basis services, and within a registered laboratory. Also, an analysis report was included. For the statistical analysis, Excel 2016 was used, resulting in a greater number of patients within the therapeutic range (51.14%). It was concluded that 51.14% of the patients with anticoagulants treated with Warfarin were within the stipulated therapeutic range, while 48.86% were found outside the therapeutic range evidencing variability in the response of patients under anticoagulant treatment with Warfarin, based on the International Normalized Ratio (INR). It is recommended for the hospital to create its guide.