Hospital pharmacy workforce in Brazil.
Hum Resour Health
; 16(1): 1, 2018 01 04.
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ABSTRACT
BACKGROUND:
This study aims to describe the distribution of the hospital pharmacy workforce in Brazil.METHODS:
Data were acquired, during 2016, through the Brazilian National Database of Healthcare Facilities (CNES). The following variables were extracted hospital name, registry number, telephone, e-mail, state, type of institution, subtype, management nature, ownership, presence of research/teaching activities, complexity level, number of hospital beds, presence of pharmacists, number of pharmacists, pharmacist specialization. All statistical analyses were performed by IBM SPSS v.19.RESULTS:
The number of hospitals with a complete registry in the national database was 4790. The majority were general hospitals (77.9%), managed by municipalities (66.1%), under public administration (44.0%), had no research/teaching activities (90.5%), classified as medium complexity (71.6%), and had no pharmacist in their team (50.6%). Furthermore, almost 60.0% of hospitals did not comply with the minimum recommendations of having a pharmacist per 50 hospital beds. The Southeast region had the highest prevalence of pharmacists, with 64.4% of hospitals having a pharmaceutical professional. This may have occurred as this region had the highest population to hospital ratio. Non-profit hospitals were more likely to have pharmacists compared to those under public administration and private hospitals.CONCLUSION:
This study mapped the hospital pharmacy workforce in Brazil, showing a higher prevalence of hospital pharmacists in the Southeast region, and in non-profit specialized hospitals.Palavras-chave
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Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Recursos Humanos em Hospital
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Farmácias
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Farmacêuticos
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Serviço de Farmácia Hospitalar
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Mão de Obra em Saúde
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Hospitais
Tipo de estudo:
Risk_factors_studies
Limite:
Humans
País como assunto:
America do sul
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Brasil
Idioma:
En
Ano de publicação:
2018
Tipo de documento:
Article