Pharmacological management of oncology pediatric patients in a University Hospital of Rio Grande do Sul: Challenges regarding to the Access
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https://doi.org/10.22491/2357-9730.112950Keywords:
Child, adolescent, neoplasms, pharmaceutical careAbstract
Introduction: Childhood cancer is the second leading cause of death among children and adolescentes in Brazil. For the success of cancer treatment, availability and access to the medicines that compose cancer therapy are important. The municipalities responsability are providing the medicines in the Basic Component, and the State responsible for the Specialized and Strategic Components. The study aimed to analyze prescribed medications in discharge orientation at a reference hospital institution with the REMUMES of seven municipalities in Rio Grande do Sul, representing the Health Macro Regions from the State and also in the other components of pharmaceutical assistance through RENAMES.
Methods: A retrospective descriptive analysis was performed with all hospital discharge pharmaceutical orientations in a pediatric oncology unit from June 2014 to June 2018, and a qualitative analysis of the presence of prescribed medicines in the cities medicines lists and the Specialized Components and State Strategic Plan.
Results: It is observed that 50.5% of the prescription medicines were not available for access to the users by the public health sector of the reference cities in the health macro regions. Considering the three organizational components of Pharmaceutical Assistance, 56% of the prescribed medicines were made available according to the National Pharmaceutical Assistance Policy.
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