A Organização Mundial de Saúde (OMS) alerta para indicadores preocupantes acerca do uso irracional de medicamentos em todo o mundo. Pesquisas apontam que mais de 50% dos medicamentos são usados de forma incorreta. Esses pontos falhos no ciclo farmacoterapêutico poderiam ser minimizados com estratégias educativas e ações específicas para mudança desse cenário. Nesse contexto, o Centro de Informação sobre Medicam...
Introduction. The culture of patient safety is the basis for the development of safe processes and better outcomes for patients, as it favors the implementation of safe practices. Understanding it influences the possibility of making changes in the management of organizational security. Goal. To evaluate the patient safety culture based on the perceptions and practices of professionals working in a public hospi...
Objective: To evaluate the safety culture of patients from the perspective of physicians who work in a maternity hospital. Method: This is a cross-sectional and quantitative study, with a descriptive approach, carried out between March and May 2016, with 124 physicians working in a public maternity hospital in the city of Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil. The information was obtained through the Hospital on Patient Saf...
O Grupo de Prevenção ao Uso Indevido de Medicamentos se insere na sociedade através de seus projetos de extensão que buscam a promoção de um uso seguro, racional e efetivo dos mesmos e a redução dos eventos adversos. A segurança do paciente é um dos atributos da qualidade em saúde, com a efetividade, a centralidade no paciente, a oportunidade do cuidado, a eficiência e a equidade. Este estudo tem como objetivo ...
A elaboração de Formulários Terapêuticos de Medicamentos torna-se importante instrumento para o prescritor,paciente e para os gestores. Ao fornecer informação independente e baseada em evidências científicas c na oontribui-se para tomada de decisão quanto a prescrição de medicamentos e para aumentar a adesão do paciente aos medicamentos prescritos. Os Formulários Terapêuticos são publicações embasadas em uma li...
A elaboração de Formulários Terapêuticos de Medicamentos torna-se importante instrumento para o prescritor,paciente e para os gestores. Ao fornecer informação independente e baseada em evidências científicas c na oontribui-se para tomada de decisão quanto a prescrição de medicamentos e para aumentar a adesão do paciente aos medicamentos prescritos. Os Formulários Terapêuticos são publicações embasadas em uma li...
Local anesthetics are commonly used in surgical procedures, they are able to promote a reversible blockade of nerve conduction, with loss of sensation in circumscribed area of the body without changing the individual's level of consciousness. The aim of this study was to review the literature that can compose the body of evidence on efficacy and safety of Lipid Emulsion (ELI) for use as an antidote in the treat...
The steady increase in the number of health technologies and advances in associated research generate management challenges in the choice of technologies to be made available to the public. From 2011, the process of inclusion, exclusion and alteration of technologies to the Brazilian Unified Health System (SUS) has undergone major transformations, such as the creation of the National Committee on Technology Inc...
The influence of pharmacotherapeutic follow-up (PTF) on quality of life was evaluated in 45 HIV+ patients, who were undergoing initial antiretroviral therapy at a specialized care center in northeast Brazil. PTF lasted nine months and quality of life was analyzed at the 1st and 9th meetings using a questionnaire validated for Brazil. The study identified 643 problems related to antiretrovirals and there were 59...
The objectives of the present work is to describe the consumption of psychoactives amongst users who attended in the Primary Care of Health (PCS) and were directed to the Centre of Psychologic and Social Support (CPSS) in the city of Maracanaú; to evaluate the practice of prescribing, the acquisition and chronic use of psychoactives; to find out what represents the use of these medicines on a day-by-day basis a...