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- Title
Hospital pharmacy workforce in Brazil.
- Authors
Santos, Thiago R.; Penm, Jonathan; Baldoni, André O.; Ayres, Lorena Rocha; Moles, Rebekah; Sanches, Cristina
- Abstract
<bold>Background: </bold>This study aims to describe the distribution of the hospital pharmacy workforce in Brazil.<bold>Methods: </bold>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.<bold>Results: </bold>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.<bold>Conclusion: </bold>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.
- Subjects
BRAZIL; HOSPITAL pharmacies; HOSPITALS; PHARMACISTS; HOSPITAL care; MEDICAL databases
- Publication
Human Resources for Health, 2018, Vol 16, p1
- ISSN
1478-4491
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1186/s12960-017-0265-5