| Title |
Spending on Bariatric Surgery in the Unified Health System from 2010 to 2014: a Study Based on the Specialist Hospitals Authorized by the Ministry of Health
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Obesity Surgery, August 2016
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| DOI | 10.1007/s11695-016-2327-5 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Danielly Batista Xavier, Walter Massa Ramalho, Everton Nunes da Silva |
| Abstract |
The aim of this study is to analyze the production of 76 specialist hospitals for the morbidly obese in Brazil's public healthcare system (SUS) from 2010 to 2014 in terms of quantity and costs of bariatric surgery and its complications. Secondary data from the SUS Hospital Information System and the National Healthcare Establishments Registry were used. Current spending on bariatric surgery and its medical and postoperative complications were analyzed. There was a 60 % rise in the number of surgeries between 2010 and 2014. This increase was not homogeneous among the hospitals studied, since only 19 performed the minimum number of surgeries required. Women accounted for 85 % of the surgeries carried out, and 32 % were aged between 35 and 44 years. The Roux-en-Y technique was the most widely used (93.7 % of the total), followed by sleeve gastrectomy. The ratio between the occurrence of medical complications and total number of surgeries performed in each hospital varied significantly (between 0 and 5.97 %) but was lower for postoperative complications, ranging from 0 to 1.7 %. There was a nominal increase of 44 % in average expenditure on postoperative complications between 2013 and 2014, while the average cost of medical complications decreased by 8.7 % in the same period. Despite the rise in the number of bariatric surgeries in Brazil, there is still a high demand for surgeries that is not being met, while most specialist hospitals fail to perform the minimum number of surgeries stipulated by the Ministry of Health. |
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| Researcher | 5 | 12% |
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| Student > Ph. D. Student | 2 | 5% |
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