Avaliação da qualidade da assistência farmacêutica na rede pública municipal de saúde de Fortaleza-Ceará

Abstract

This research has its origin in the necessity to know the discussion related to the Pharmaceutical Assistance (PA) in Fortaleza in two environments: in the PA administration and in the health basic attention. It is about a transversal descriptive natured study which resorted quantity method through application of indicators of AP quality and which has as objectives establish mechanisms to recognize the local reality, to estimate the relation of service quality and the pharmaceutists’ presence and their geographical distribution throughout the city. The indicators were classified in structure, process and result. To make the selection of indicators, the definition of criteria and patterns, the Nominal Group Technique was used in two workshops with the pharmaceutists’ participation who worked in the central level, in Regional Executive Secretaries (RES) and in health units. The data collection was composed of aplications of structured forms for the PA administrators in Fortaleza, units coordinators and pharmacy assistants. According to the AF, the punctuation was classified as excellent, satisfactory, precarious, and critical. The AF management (macro) was classified as precarious mainly due to the absence of uptodated essential documents, the default of a permanent educational plan, pharmacists’ insufficiency and assessment actions. Positive points: 100% of programmed resources to purchase were applied, 89% of the list according to RENAME, 80, 43% acquired through bidding, 87% of availability in municipal CAF. AF in Health Units (micro) was considered precarious in 75%, mainly proper to lack of pattern operational procedures (71,26%), great variation between the inventory and the stockage control (90,58%), low assistance using good practices of dispensation (27,61%) and the small concordance between the stockage record and the physical counting. Positive points: 95,40% of units accomplished stockage control, 88,71% of provided medicaments, 83,88% of medicament availability. Despite of the historical advances in AF organization in Fortaleza, the current situation is precarious, concerning to the good indexes that were found promptly to some indicators. The lowest reached punctuations refer to structure indicators, demonstrating the necessity of policies which benefit those ones. One concludes that the definition and implementation of an optimization plan to AF in Fortaleza, including actions in a short, medium and long time are necessary and urgent. Such a plan should be established by the diagnosis presented in this research.