DocumentCode
3497073
Title
Evaluating pharmaceutical assistance activities in Brazilian hospitals
Author
Nascimento, A. ; Castilho, S.R. ; Almeida, R.M.V.R. ; Infantosi, A.F.C.
Author_Institution
Biomed. Eng. Program /COPPE, UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
fYear
2011
fDate
March 28 2011-April 1 2011
Firstpage
127
Lastpage
130
Abstract
This work aims at identifying and evaluating the associations between the pharmaceutical assistance activities in hospital pharmacies services (HPS). The Multiple Correspondence Analysis (MCA) was applied to a sample of 238 hospitals and 30 variables from the survey Diagnosis of Hospital Pharmacy in Brazil. The first dimension of the MCA explained 90.6% of the data variability and allowed discriminate the HPS according to the presence or not of activities. It is noticeable an association between the presence of activities and better categories with large hospitals.
Keywords
hospitals; pharmaceuticals; Brazilian hospital; Multiple Correspondence Analysis; hospital pharmacies services; pharmaceutical assistance activity; Conferences; Couplings; Drugs; Hospitals; IEEE catalog; Logistics; Hospital Pharmacy Services; Multiple Correspondence Analysis;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Health Care Exchanges (PAHCE), 2011 Pan American
Conference_Location
Rio de Janeiro
Print_ISBN
978-1-61284-915-7
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/PAHCE.2011.5871863
Filename
5871863
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