Background: In Castille-Leon, there is an information system in primary health care. The target is to describe several operativity indicators in a primary health care center with the date collected with this system and indirectly, to initiate its evaluation.
Methods: The study was carried out in an urban primary health care center in Valladolid. A descriptive analysis of the data, related to the health problems demanded in 1990, collected in first sampling during a week of every month, is carried out.
Results: The global work load was 30-2 problems demanded to the doctor per day. The 5.7% of consult were home visits, and the prevailing problems were circulatory and respiratory. Per 100 problems, 10 laboratory test, 4.4 radiographies, 1.4 electrocardiograms and 5.25 other different tests were required. No adequate nor periodical informations was received from the administration to which data were sent.
Conclusions: Insufficiency in the system to characterize in an adequate way, the health care activities complexity and lack of use of the provided data and of analysis.