Public-private relationship in surgical hospitalizations through the Unified Health System

Autor: Liane Alves de Sá, Eduardo Rocha Covre, Willian Augusto de Melo, Rogério Miranda Gomes, Maria Fernanda do Prado Tostes
Jazyk: English<br />Spanish; Castilian<br />Portuguese
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem, Vol 29 (2021)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1518-8345
DOI: 10.1590/1518-8345.4901.3467
Popis: Objective: to characterize surgical hospitalizations, length of stay, cost and mortality, according to the legal nature (public and private) of the hospital institution linked to the Unified Health System (Sistema Único de Saúde, SUS). Method: a descriptive study, of the survey type, with retrospective data collection (2008 to 2017) and a quantitative approach. The dependent variables surgical hospitalizations in Brazil, costs, length of stay and mortality and the independent variables regime/legal nature (public and private) were obtained from the Informatics Department of the Unified Health System. The Mann-Whitney test was used for analysis. Results: the average number of hospitalizations through the Unified Health System was 4,214,083 hospitalizations/year, 53.5% occurred in private hired hospitals and 46.5% in public hospitals (p=0.001). The financial transfer was greater for the private sector (60.6%) against 39.4% for the public (p=0.001). The average stay was 4.5 days in the public hospital and 3.1 days in its private counterpart (p
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