Chaves Lucieli Dias Pedreschi, Anselmi Maria Luiza
Departamento de Enfermagem Geral e Especializada da Escola de Enfermagem de Ribeirão Preto da Universidade de São Paulo.
Rev Gaucha Enferm. 2006 Dec;27(4):583-92.
Municipal managers need to dedicate special attention to hospitalizations, due to the financial volume they consume and to the possibility of reorganizing the local health system. This descriptive and cross-sectional study characterizes the production of hospitalizations, in physical and financial terms, between 1996 and 2003, in Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil. Data were obtained from a secondary data source, the Datasus database, and showed an increase of 56% in hospitalizations, and 156.3% in financial resources during this period. The largest growth occurred in the clinical surgery area (72.4%), which concentrates more complex and technological procedures, implying higher financial remuneration than in other specialties.
