Melhoria da qualidade da atenção ao portador de diabetes mellitus tipo 2 em uma instituição de cuidados primários de saúde

Abstract

Introduction: Mellitus diabetes is constituted as an important public health problem nowadays, featuring high morbidity and mortality and significant loss on quality of life. Its chronic condition, the severity of complications and the resources needed to hold back them, make the diabetes a very costly disease not only for the affected individuals and their families, but also for health systems in different countries. The care related to diabetes is complex and it involves a variety of aspects that go beyond blood glucose control and the use of hypoglycemic drugs. A compilation of evidence support a range of interventions in order to improve the macro and microvascular outcomes on DM. Goals: Evaluating and improving the care provided to diabetics by using the quality improvement cycle in a Basic Health Unit. Methodology: This is a quantitative and retrospective research, developed through application of an internal quality improvement cycle, carried out in a basic health unit. The quality level was evaluated by 9 quality criteria developed and validated locally. Two evaluations were made at two different times. To quantify the effectiveness of the intervention, it was calculated the absolute and relative improvement, besides the statistical significance of the absolute improvement through unilateral test of value z. Results: After intervention, the relative improvement varies between 50% and 76%, considering highly significant (p <0.001) in most of these criteria. The absolute frequency of non-compliance decreased from 593 (first evaluation) to 214 (second evaluation), corresponding to an improvement of 379 in total of non-compliance of the criteria evaluated. Conclusions: The internal evaluation cycle proved to be useful and effective as a quality management instrument of care process evaluated, despite not having reached the level of great quality, in other words, the absence of non-compliances of all the analyzed criteria.