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Economic evaluation of human albumin use in patients with nephrotic syndrome in four Brazilian public hospitals: pharmacoeconomic study

Säo Paulo med. j; 135 (2), 2017
ABSTRACT CONTEXT AND OBJECTIVE: In 2004, the Brazilian National Health Surveillance Agency (Agência Nacional de Vigilância Sanitária, ANVISA) published a resolution establishing guidelines for albumin use. Although the published data do not indicate any definitive conclusions about the benefits of a...

Internações por condições sensíveis à atenção primária, gastos com saúde e Estratégia Saúde da Família: uma análise de tendência

Resumo O objetivo deste trabalho foi analisar a tendência temporal das internações por condições sensíveis à atenção primária (ICSAP), relacionando-a com os gastos em saúde e com a cobertura da Estratégia Saúde da Família (ESF), no município de São Leopoldo, Rio Grande do Sul, no período...

Estimated costs of advanced lung cancer care in a public reference hospital

ABSTRACT OBJECTIVE To estimate the direct medical costs of advanced non-small cell lung cancer care. METHODS We assessed a cohort of 277 patients treated in the Brazilian National Cancer Institute in 2011. The costs were estimated from the perspective of the hospital as a service provider of reference ...

Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency and the use of primaquine: top-down and bottom-up estimation of professional costs

ABSTRACT The aim of this study has been to study whether the top-down method, based on the average value identified in the Brazilian Hospitalization System (SIH/SUS), is a good estimator of the cost of health professionals per patient, using the bottom-up method for comparison. The study has been develop...

A desospitalização em um hospital público geral de Minas Gerais: desafios e possibilidades

Rev. gaúch. enferm; 38 (4), 2017
Resumo OBJETIVO Analisar o processo de desospitalização em um hospital público geral de Minas Gerais na perspectiva dos diretores, dos profissionais de saúde e dos familiares. MÉTODO Estudo descritivo e exploratório, utilizando a abordagem qualitativa, com orientação teórico-metodológica da d...

Costo efectividad y análisis de impacto presupuestario del óxido nítrico inhalatorio neonatal en un hospital, desde la perspectiva del sistema público de salud

Rev. chil. pediatr; 87 (6), 2016
El óxido nítrico inhalatorio (ONi) es actualmente la terapia de primera línea en la insuficiencia respiratoria hipoxémica grave del recién nacido; la mayor parte de los centros neonatales de regiones en Chile no cuentan con esta alternativa terapéutica. Objetivo: Determinar el costo-efectividad del...

Prescripción inapropiada en adultos mayores hospitalizados
Inappropriate prescription in elderly inpatients

Medicina (B.Aires); 76 (6), 2016
Una de las causas prevenibles de los eventos adversos a medicamentos (EAM) en la población adulta mayor es la prescripción inapropiada, (PIM), es decir aquella prescripción donde los riesgos superan los beneficios clínicos. Se propone conocer la incidencia de PIM con los criterios de Beers, los Scree...

Analysis of the costs and quality of cardiovascular care in oncological monitoring

Summary Objective: To analyze the health care costs specifically related to cardiovascular diseases, which were spent by patients of a private healthcare provider in southern Brazil, after their diagnosis of cancer. Method: We developed an observational, cross-sectional, retrospective study, with a qua...

Chronic case management: Clinical governance with cost reductions

SUMMARY Introduction: With increasing global impact of chronic degenerative non-communicable diseases (CDNCD), multidisciplinary chronic disease management care programs (CDMCP) come as a solution to improve the quality of patients care. Method: We conducted a cross-sectional epidemiologic prospective ...

Sepsis in a university hospital: a prospective study for the cost analysis of patients' hospitalization

Rev. Esc. Enferm. USP; 50 (2), 2016
Abstract OBJECTIVE To estimate the cost of hospitalization of patients with severe sepsis or septic shock admitted or diagnosed in the Urgent and Emergency sector at a university hospital and followed until the clinical outcome. METHOD An epidemiological, prospective, observational study conducted in a...