Análise do custo da internação dos pacientes com AIDS, em um hospital de média complexidade em Porto Alegre, RS

Abstract

Hospitals and other health institutions have been worried with theirs monthly or annual economic deficit and need to revert this situation. However, this is not a simple matter to solve and the starting point to do so is to know how much the service costs. The objective of this study is to evaluate the average cost of the inpatient stay for patients with HIV/AIDS in a medium-complexity hospital in Porto Alegre – RS and its relationship with the remuneration schedule of SUS (Single Health System) for these inpatient stays. We developed a descriptive observational study with the patients from the Unity 2 (unity with 40 hospital beds exclusive for patients with HIV/AIDS) of the Associação Hospitalar Vila Nova (AHVN). The AHVN is a general hospital with 296 hospital beds and during the time of the research (September to November, 2008) 300 patients were registered in the Unity (2585 inpatient stays). The direct and indirect costs were obtained during three months aiming the calculation of the total cost of the in