Eficiencia en la programación y ejecución del gasto en medicamentos como indicador de calidad en el Hospital Pediátrico "Alfonso Villagómez Román".

Abstract

The general objective of this research project was to evaluate the quality of the efficiency of the programming and execution of economic spending on drugs as a quality indicator in the “Alfonso Villagómez Román” Pediatric Hospital. Through a quantitative approach research and with the application of a survey to all the collaborators of the health institution, because they were within the reach of the researchers, the 119 respondents yielded interesting results such as that the effectiveness in the programming and execution of economic spending on drugs considering the level complexity of the hospital and its epidemiological profile is on the ordinal scale of regular at 55%, while the optimum or efficient is 36%. In other words, the rating was not favorable and was below the average, for which a design of a set of quality indicators was proposed for the evaluation of drug expenditure at the “Alfonso Villagómez Román” Pediatric Hospital. Leaving this a wakeup call for the Ministry of Public Health to carry out audits within the hospitals that are under its regulation, and certify that the pharmacies guarantee greater effectiveness in the programming and execution of economic spending on drugs.