The cost of transcatheter aortic valve implantation according to different access routes.

OBJECTIVE: Identifying the average direct cost of TAVI (Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation) for the different access routes. METHOD: This is a research with a quantitative, exploratory and descriptive approach carried out in a government teaching hospital in the state of São Paulo. RESULTS: The average direct cost of TAVI procedures by the access routes resulted in R$82,826.38 (transfemoral route), R$79,440.91 (transaortic route) and R$78,173.41 (transapical route). The transcatheter valve cost represented a percentage variation between 78.47% and 83.14% of the total cost of the procedure. The Kruskal-Wallis test was used and presented a statistically significant difference between the three access routes: p=0.008. The Bonferroni test showed a difference in the association between transfemoral and transapical routes, while no statistically significant difference was observed in association with the transaortic route. CONCLUSION: The results are important for formulating adequate funding policies for the hospital network and understanding the costs according to the route facilitates rationalizing resources in order for them to be guaranteed for patients who present surgical contraindication to the valve implant.

[The nurse in the management of materials in teaching hospitals]. / O enfermeiro no gerenciamento de materiais em hospitais de ensino.

OBJECTIVE: To present the nurse's integration within materials management of six teaching hospitals of Paraná - Brazil, and to describe the activities performed by nurses within this process. METHOD: A study of a qualitative approach and descriptive nature, conducted in teaching hospitals in Paraná, between June and August of 2013. The data collection was conducted through semi-structured interviews with eight nurses who worked in materials management; data were analyzed using content analysis. RESULTS: These showed that nurses perform ten categories of activities, distributed into four of the five steps of the materials management process. CONCLUSION: The nurse, in performing of these activities, in addition to favoring the development of participative management, contributes to the organization, planning, and the standardization of the hospital supply process, giving greater credibility to the work with professionals who use the materials, and to the suppliers.

Nursing staff in the internal medicine and surgical units of teaching hospitals: composition and cost. / Quadro de profissionais de enfermagem em unidades médico-cirúrgicas de hospitais de ensino: composição e custos.

Objective Evaluate the mean quantitative and qualitative nursing staff working in the internal medicine and surgical units of three public general teaching hospitals in the city of São Paulo, compared to projected mean staff according to the parameters of Cofen Resolution No. 293/04, as well as measure the mean cost of current and projected nursing staff. Method Quantitative, descriptive, exploratory study using prospective data collection. Results In most of the units studied, the number of nursing professionals was adequate. In two of the institutions, the percentage of nurses was lower than that recommended by Cofen. Qualitative and quantitative adjustment of the staff would represent a monthly cost increase of R$141,326 for Hospital A, R$138,989 for Hospital B, and a reduction of R$99,028 for Hospital C. Conclusion The main contribution of this study was the proposed method for qualitative and quantitative evaluation of nursing staff, in addition to determining the average cost for adjustments.

Nursing interventions in pediatric care: a contribution to measuring workload. / Intervenções de enfermagem em pediatria: contribuição para a mensuração da carga de trabalho.

Objective To identify and validate interventions/activities developed by a nursing team in a Brazilian pediatric unit. Method A descriptive, cross-sectional, and observational study was developed in the pediatric clinic of the university hospital of University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil. It was organized in the following stages: identifying activities carried out by the team (from records in patient charts and from direct observation); mapping out and validating activities identified in interventions according to the Nursing Intervention Classification (NIC). Results The 275 identified activities were mapped out into 63 interventions, 22 NIC classes and 7 NIC domains, and 25 associated and 13 personal activities. After validation, the number of activities decreased to 244, corresponding to 53 interventions, 20 NIC classes and 6 NIC domains, and 30 associated activities and 9 personal activities. Conclusion Identifying the interventions/activities performed by the nursing team can help measure workload and is an important contribution to overcoming difficulties when it comes to operationalizing the process of sizing professional teams in the field of pediatrics.

[Evidence-based practices published in Brazil: identification and analysis studies about human health prevention]. / Práticas baseadas em evidências publicadas no Brasil: identificação e reflexão na área da prevenção em saúde humana.

Integrative review of Brazilian studies about evidence-based practices (EBP) about prevention in human health, published in Web of Science/JCR journals, between October 2010 and April 2011. The aim was to identify the specialties that most accomplished these studies, their foci and methodological approaches. Based on inclusion criteria, 84 studies were selected, mainly published in public health journals, focusing on primary care and also addressing clinical issues and different specialties. Prevention foci and methodological approaches also varied, with a predominance of systematic reviews without meta-analysis. The results indicate that there is no single way to conceptualize and practice EBP in the field of prevention, and that its application may not only serve to obtain indisputable evidence to equip intervention actions. This endless knowledge area is under construction, with a view to the analysis and further understanding of health phenomena.

[Evidence-based practices published in Brazil: identification and analysis of their types and methodological approches]. / Práticas baseadas em evidências publicadas no Brasil: identificação e análise de suas vertentes e abordagens metodológicas.

This is an integrative review of Brazilian studies on evidence-based practices (EBP) in health, published in ISI/JCR journals in the last 10 years. The aim was to identify the specialty areas that most accomplished these studies, their foci and methodological approaches. Based on inclusion criteria, 144 studies were selected. The results indicate that most EBP studies addressed childhood and adolescence, infectious diseases, psychiatrics/mental health and surgery. The predominant foci were prevention, treatment/rehabilitation, diagnosis and assessment. The most used methods were systematic review with or without meta-analysis, protocol review or synthesis of available evidence studies, and integrative review. A strong multiprofessional expansion of EBP is found in Brazil, contributing to the search for more selective practices by collecting, recognizing and critically analyzing the produced knowledge. The study also contributes to the analysis itself of ways to do research and new research possibilities.

Cost of nursing staffing adequacy in a neonatal unit. / Custo da adequação quantitativa de profissionais de enfermagem em Unidade Neonatal.

The objectives of this descriptive, quantitative study were: to identify the mean nursing care time provided and required by newborns (NB) hospitalized at the Neonatal Unit of the University of São Paulo University Hospital; to calculate the cost of the mean nursing care time provided and required, by NB; to assess the cost of the nursing staffing adequacy required to assist the NB. The mean nursing care times, provided by the nursing staff and required by NBs, were calculated using equations available in the literature and by applying the Nursing Activities Score. The costs of the mean nursing care times and to make nursing staffing adequate were calculated based on the hourly cost of nurses and nursing technicians. The financial impact of nursing staffing adequacy accounted for a 30% increase over the cost of the current situation.

Computerized nursing staffing: a software evaluation. / Dimensionamento informatizado de profissionais de enfermagem: avaliação de um software.

The complexity involved in operationalizing the method for nursing staffing, in view of the uncountable variable related to identifying the workload, the effective working time of the staff, and the Technical Security Index (TSI) revealed the need to develop a software program named: Computerized Nursing Staffing (DIPE, in Portuguese acronyms). This exploratory, descriptive study was performed with the objective to evaluate the technical quality and functional performance of DIPE. Participants were eighteen evaluators, ten of whom where nurse faculty or nurse hospital unit managers, and eight health informatics experts. The software evaluation was performed according to norm NBR ISO/IEC 9126-1, considering the features functionality, reliability, usability, efficiency, and maintainability. The software evaluation reached positive results and agreement among the evaluators for all the evaluated features. The reported suggestions are important for proposing further improving and enhancing the DIPE.

Survey of the major sources of waste in the health care units of a teaching hospital. / Levantamento das principais fontes de desperdício de unidades assistenciais de um hospital universitário.

The objectives of this study were to survey the different types of waste, their causes and suggestions to eliminate them according to the opinion of the nursing and medical staff from the Clinical Medicine, Surgery, Pediatrics, Rooming-In, and Nursery Units; and estimate the cost of the major source of waste found in the referred units. This descriptive, explorative study was performed at the University of São Paulo Teaching Hospital using a quantitative approach. The study sample consisted of 189 medical and nursing professionals. Material waste (36%) was the most often reported by all professional categories, followed by physical structure waste (27%). The most reported wasted materials were medicines, dressing packs, stationary paper, and infusion devices The estimated annual cost of material waste in the studied units is about R$ 479.262,86.

Coverage for the cost of outpatient nursing procedures by the Unified Health System: a percentage analysis.

OBJECTIVE: To analyze the percentage of the coverage of transfers from the Brazilian Unified Health System regarding nursing procedures conducted in the Outpatient facility of a University Hospital. METHOD: Quantitative, exploratory, descriptive case study. The sample for calculating the mean total direct costs was composed of non-participant observations of 656 procedures. The obtained costs were compared to transfers from the Unified Health System by multiplying the amount of procedures agreed upon by the unit cost in the Unified Table of Procedures in 2016 and 2017. RESULTS: The Unified Health System transferred a percentage corresponding to 11.13% of the actual cost in 2016 and to 16.02% in 2017. In these two years, transfer values covered only a mean of 13.4%, resulting in a percentage difference in revenue significantly smaller than the actual cost. CONCLUSION: The higher the productivity of the performed procedures, the higher was the hospital deficit and, consequently, the higher were the costs not covered by the Unified Health System.

[Implementation of computerized material management system at the University of São Paulo University Hospital]. / Implementação do sistema de gestão de materials informatizado do Hospital Universitário da Universidade de São Paulo.

This is an experience report on the process of implementing a computerized materials management system at the University Hospital of the University of São Paulo. The system was called Materials Management System (SGM). The process comprised four phases: choice of the model and information tool; restructuring of the logistic materials process at the hospital; restructuring of the support areas and establishment of the SGM system itself. A study carried out at the Surgical Center after the establishment demonstrated that, when comparing materials consumption and inventories in the SGM with the Traditional System, the consumed quantity and the cost of inventory materials at the Unit decreased.

[Cost management: the implementation of the activity-based costing method in sterile processing department]. / Gerenciamento de custos: aplicação do mctodo de Custeio Baseado em Atividades em Centro de Material Esterilizado.

This exploratory case study was performed aiming at implementing the Activity-based Costing (ABC) method in a sterile processing department (SPD) of a major teaching hospital. Data collection was performed throughout 2006. Documentary research techniques and non participant closed observation were used. The ABC implementation allowed for learning the activity-based costing of both the chemical and physical disinfection cycle/load: (dollar 9.95) and (dollar 12.63), respectively; as well as the cost for sterilization by steam under pressure (autoclave) (dollar 31.37) and low temperature steam and gaseous formaldehyde sterilization (LTSF) (dollar 255.28). The information provided by the ABC method has optimized the overall understanding of the cost driver process and provided the foundation for assessing performance and improvement in the SPD processes.

Staff cost in direct nursing care at an intensive care unit.

This quantitative case study aimed to learn and analyze the personnel cost in nursing direct care in the intensive care unit. We opted to use a therapeutic intervention score index, TISS-28, for the analysis of the indirect gravity of patients and the dimension of the nursing staff working time. Evaluating the cost by a gravity score presented to be a logical and relatively simple method to allocate costs per patient in the intensive care unit. In this exploratory and descriptive study, the average TISS-28 per patient was 31 points, requiring a daily expenditure of care hours of R$ 298.69. It was evidenced in this study that personnel costs are variable since there are patients with different complexities. Therefore is possible to estimate the nursing staff cost by assessing its work load.

Expenditure survey on continued veno-venous hemodialysis procedure in the intensive care unit.

This study aimed to characterize patients submitted to dialytic treatment with CVVHD in ICUs; monitor procedure time duration; estimate nurses' labor wages and; estimate the direct procedures mean costs. The study was developed in a public teaching hospital located in São Paulo, Brazil. A total of 93 procedures performed in 50 patients composed the sample. The results showed the predominance of male patients (62%); mean age was 60.8 years old; ICU hospitalization time was 19.2 days; 86% of the patients died; 76% of the patients presented acute renal insufficiency and, mean procedure time per patient was 1.9. The mean procedure duration was 26.6 hours. The mean cost of nurses' wages were R$ 592.04 which represented 28.7% of the total cost. The mean total expenditure was R$ 2,065.36 ranging from R$ 733.65 to R$ 6,994.18.

[The direct cost of the cardiopulmonary resuscitation training program in a university hospital]. / O custo direto do programa de treinamento em ressuscitação cardiopulmonar em um hospital universitário.

This study was aimed at mapping the process of shared training in cardiopulmonary resuscitation for technicians and assistant nurses of the Intensive Care and Semi-Intensive Care units at the University of São Paulo's Hospital Universitário (HU-USP), and at checking the direct costs of the main activities in the process. This is an exploratory research, a retrospective, documental survey, using the case study model. The results showed that the total direct cost of the cardiopulmonary resuscitation training program was 9,081.44 reals. The direct cost with personnel represented 96.74%, and with material 3.26%. In the training planning sub-process, most of the direct cost was represented by the instructor-assisting nurse, with 5,451.60 reals (62.04%). The direct costs related to the material that was used were also higher in the training program sub-process, 188.80 reals (63.73%). The total cost per trainee was 206.40 reals.

[Survey on the cost of the admission process of nursing technicians in a teaching hospital]. / Levantamento do custo do processo admissional de técnico de enfermagem de um hospital de ensino.

This study was aimed at contributing to the cost management of the admission process of nursing technicians by mapping and measuring the direct cost of the main activities in this process. The exploratory, retrospective, documental study on the modality of case study was carried out at the Educational Support Service of the University of São Paulo's Hospital Universitário. The admission process was divided into five sub-processes: planning, recruiting, selection, hiring and admission training. Results showed that the direct total cost of the admission process was R$ 6359.90, and that, within the sub-processes, selection was the one that consumed most resources--R$ 3416.40, amounting to 53.72% of the total. Each hired candidate cost R$ 635.99.

[Happy Age Group: nursing care for the promotion of health in the third age]. / Grupo Feliz Idade: cuidado de enfermagem para a promoção da saúde na terceira idade.

This article is aimed at describing the formation of the Happy Age, a group developed by nurses of the Family Health Program in the city of Fortaleza, State of Ceará, as well as to know the impact of the activities it carries out in the lives of senior citizens. The first participants of the group were 314 elders that are part of the Arterial Hypertension and Diabetes Mellitus programs. To form the group the nurses had the help of a doctor, a physiotherapist, a physical educator and a health agent. Group activities were walks, workshops, outings and community therapy. The final group was comprised of 124 members. After their insertion in the group, participants experienced improvements in the biological aspect, such as increased flexibility and better articulation mobility, in addition to increasing social interactions. It was observed that activities carried out this way favor the promotion of elderly citizen's health.

[Level of attention of the classified supplies as Z in the hospital universitário from USP]. / Nível de atendimento dos materials classificados como críticos no Hospital Universitário da USP.

The lack of the consumption materials in hospital units is a faced difficulty for health professionals. Some tools of the supplies' management are being incorporated with the purpose to minimize these lacks, between them the XYZ materials classification which is based on the operational importance of supplies. It allows fixing levels of attendance (LA) and levels' lacks (LL) to different supplies. The objectives of this study was to raise the number of non-observed requests of the Z's supplies, to calculate LA and LL of the 20 supplies that were more non-observed and to know were the possible causes that had led to these lacks. The sample of 747 non-observed requests had shown that of 572, 39.7% had presented some lack. The delay in the delivery for the supplier was the most representative cause with 39%. The LAs had varied from 92.11% to 27.08% and, the LLs from 7.89% to 72.92%.

Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery Cost Coverage by the Brazilian Unified Health System (SUS).

INTRODUCTION: Cost management has been identified as an essential tool for the general control and evaluation of health organizations. OBJECTIVES: To identify the coverage percentage of transferred funds from the Unified Health System for coronary artery bypass grafts in a philanthropic hospital having a consolidated costing system in the municipality of São Paulo. METHODS: A quantitative, descriptive and cross-sectional research with information provided from a database composed of 1913 patients undergoing coronary artery bypass graft from March 13 to September 30, 2012, including isolated elective coronary artery bypass graft with the use of extracorporeal circulation. It excluded 551 (28.8%) patients, among them 76 (4.0%) deaths and 8 hospitalized patients, since the cost was compared according to the length of hospital stay. Therefore, the sample consisted of 1362 patients. RESULTS: The average total cost per patient was $7,992.55. The average fund transfer by the Unified Health System was $3,450.73 (48.66%), resulting in a deficit of $4,541.82 (51.34%). CONCLUSION: The Unified Health System transfers covered 48.66% of the average total cost of hospitalization. Although the amount transferred increased with increasing costs, it was not proportional to the total cost, resulting in a percentage difference in revenue that was increasingly negative for each increase in cost and hospital stay. Those hospitalized for longer than seven days presented higher costs, older age, higher percentage of diabetics and chronic kidney disease patients and more postoperative complications.

Cost survey of procedure with Unna boot in patients with venous ulcer.

Aims was to identify the social-demographic characteristics and the lesions of patients with venous ulcer (VU), as well as to estimate the total direct cost of materials and nursing personnel necessary for the procedure with unna boot, by the average total direct cost (ATDC) and the observed cost (OTDC). The theoretical referential adopted for cost calculation was the costing system by absorption of procedure or product. This study was conducted at the University Hospital of Sao Paulo University (HU) Ambulatory. The sample was constituted by 65 procedures in nine patients with VU. The results show that the predominant age groups were 49 to 56 years (33,33%) and 65 to 72 years (33,33%), in female patients (77,78%). Regarding associated diseases, there was a predominance of Systemic Arterial Hypertension (33,33%) and Diabetes Mellitus (22,22%). The ATDC was 107,99 R dollars and the OTDC was 96,47 R dollars.