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ReviewRevista de saude publica2023

Validation of surgical care quality indicators in the Brazilian Unified Health System.

Anna Cláudia Sales Gomes Caldas, Rafael Santiago de Araújo, Paulo José Medeiros, Marise Reis de Freitas, Victoriano Soria Aledo, Zenewton André da Silva Gama

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Review in Revista de saude publica, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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0citing papers in PubMed
0.2field-weighted citation impact, top 45% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

0 citing papers in PubMed, 1 citations in OpenAlex.

No citing paper in PubMed yet.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Anna Cláudia Sales Gomes CaldasSecretaria de Estado de Saúde Pública do Rio Grande do Norte. Natal, RN, Brasil.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1796-2113
Rafael Santiago de AraújoUniversidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte. Natal, RN, Brasil.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9482-9367
Paulo José MedeirosUniversidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte. Departamento de Medicina Integrada. Natal, RN, Brasil.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2409-9944
Marise Reis de FreitasUniversidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte. Departamento de Infectologia. Natal, RN, Brasil.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5679-6672
Victoriano Soria AledoUniversidad de Murcia. Facultad de Medicina. Murcia, España.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0159-4034
Zenewton André da Silva GamaUniversidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte. Departamento de Saúde Coletiva. Natal, RN, Brasil.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0818-9680
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte · BRSecretaria da Saúde · BRUniversidad de Murcia · ES

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectiveTo validate a set of indicators for monitoring the quality of surgical procedures in the Brazilian Unified Health System (SUS).

methodsValidation study developed in 5 stages: 1) literature review; 2) prioritization of indicators; 3) content validation of indicators by RAND/UCLA consensus method; 4) pilot study for reliability analysis; and 5) development of instruction for tabulation of outcome indicators for monitoring via official information systems.

resultsFrom the literature review, 217 indicators of surgical quality were identified. The excluded indicators were: those based on scientific evidence lower than 1A, similar, specific, which corresponded to sentinel events; and those that did not apply to the SUS context. Twenty-six indicators with a high level of scientific evidence were submitted to expert consensus. Twenty-two indicators were validated, of which 14 process indicators and 8 outcome indicators with content validation index ≥80%. Of the validated process indicators, 6 were considered substantially reliable (Kappa coefficient between 0.6 and 0.8; p < 0.05) and 2 had almost perfect reliability (Kappa coefficient > 0.8, p < 0.05), when the inter-rater agreement was analyzed. One could measure and establish tabulation mechanism for TabWin for 7 outcome indicators.

conclusionThe study contributes to the development of a set of potentially effective surgical indicators for monitoring the quality of care and patient safety in SUS hospital services.

Indexed as

Quality Indicators, Health CareQuality of Health CareBrazilHumansPilot ProjectsReproducibility of Results

Identifiers

PMID37132732
PMCPMC10124162
OpenAlexW4367834167

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