Indicadores hospitalares para medição de desempenho assistencial e de gestão: proposta de modelo-referência de benchmarking hospitalar

Abstract

The health area presents huge challenge of reconciling quality with financial viability. As a premise is an area that demands to do more, with fewer resources and with results that can impact lives of people. In Brazil, hospitals of excellence have initiatives that are very close to the most important international ones, aiming to meet high quality requirements, measuring their performance, such as hospitals members of ANAHP (National Association of Private Hospitals), which has a collection of indicators and comparison between participants, but the main question of this research is in relation to which Indicators better represent the area of hospital care and could be applied to all profiles of hospitals in the country. The indicators evaluated in this study were grouped into the BSC (Balanced Scorecard) dimensions, mainly related within management and assistance process, besides financial aspects, human resources and customer perception of quality. The work proposes, from 7 national and international references, a set of 30 indicators, with concern to cover not only strategic processes of management, but also assistance, less evaluated in hospitals outside the group of excellence. This set of indicators was validated by a group of management and healthcare specialists, not only linked to hospitals of excellence, but also to the widespread profile of hospitals, identified as future adopters, more prevalent in Brazil, such as non-profit, in an attempt to exploring the perception of future feasibility of adopting a national hospital benchmarking platform. After validating the set of indicators, a non-functional prototype was presented in a web-based technology platform, available in the benchealth.com domain, and an assessment was made to visualize the feasibility of importing this information from the Hospital Information Systems (HIS) most used in market, considering systematization level within HIT, in order to evaluate the viability of extracting these indicators. The result of this study showed adherence to the proposed indicators, but also signaled difficulties in obtaining some indicators, mainly related to care processes, less systematized in hospitals. It is also clear the need to assess the viability of other indicators that have representativeness in environments of excellence and have not yet been part of this initial study.