"O tratamento supervisionado no domicílio para o controle da tuberculose no município de Ribeirão Preto, SP-Brasil: avaliação do desempenho" / Domiciliary Supervised Treatment for Tuberculosis Control in Ribeirão Preto, SP. – Brazil: performance evaluation.

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2005

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This exploratory study aimed to evaluate the “performance” of health services that execute Domiciliary DOTS/TS in the Tuberculosis Control Program (TCP) at Health Units in Ribeirão Preto. The methodological reference framework was based on the basic focuses for medical care quality evaluation Structure-Process-Outcome proposed by Donabedian (1988) and modified by Tanaka and Melo (2001) and Starfield (2002). The following indicators were elaborated: Coverage, Use of recourses, Performance agility, Medication administration monitoring and Time spent per home visit. Data were collected in 4 TCP by means of the Systematic Observation Technique of home visits, realized by the health professional who was responsible for supervising the patient’s treatment in July 2003. All patients were accompanied who were receiving domiciliary DOTS/TS during the study period, as well as those included in the supervision during data collection. The performance evaluation was accomplished in the indicator list and complemented in function of the analysis per indicator, based on mean values and confidence intervals. The studied indicators demonstrated that the planning of resources, the health team’s organization of its work, the definition of function and the systemization of actions in tuberculosis patients’ treatment can influence in the sense of achieving a better performance by the health service in terms of coverage, use of resources, agility, medication administration monitoring and time spent per home visit. Thus, in view of health sector restrictions in terms of human and material resources, there is a need to reconsider other forms of supervising and/or integrating treatment and control activities with other intervention strategies that can result in the rational use of resources, a better healthcare and a successful treatment.

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avaliação de desempenho tuberculose tuberculosis control program dots strategy tratamento diretamente observado health program assessment

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