• 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