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Ana Escoval
National School of Public Health, Nova University Lisbon, 1600-560 Lisbon, Portugal

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Journal article
Published: 25 November 2020 in Sustainability
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Home respiratory care (HRC) is the provision of healthcare services at the place of residence of patients or their families, with the aim of meeting needs mainly resulting from chronic respiratory conditions, permanent disability, or terminal illness. In 2016, an innovative electronic prescription system, PEM-CRD, was fully implemented for HRC services in Portugal. To date, no study has addressed the impact of the execution of this digital innovation. For this purpose, we carried out an analysis of the prevalence and number of prescriptions for people with chronic respiratory diseases receiving HRC in the Lisbon metropolitan area, during 2014–2018, using the information obtained from the PEM-CRD database. The data analysis shows that while the number of patients receiving HRC treatment with a prescription has remained stable over the last four years, the number of prescriptions has significantly dropped since 2016 (2016–2018), with consequent paper and processes efficiency. The implementation of the digital Medical Electronic Prescription for Home Respiratory Care tool (PEM-CRD) and consequent dematerialization of these processes has increased the efficiency of prescribing in HRC. Additionally, the possibility of obtaining data through the PEM-CRD allows the monitoring of the evolving prevalence of therapies, improving the health services optimization and allowing reporting on data other than medicines.

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Ricardo Alves; Cátia Caneiras; Ana Santos; Patricia Barbosa; João Cardoso; Paulo Caseiro; Maria Vitorino; João Pereira; Ana Escoval. Medical Electronic Prescription for Home Respiratory Care Services (PEM-CRD) at a Portuguese University Tertiary Care Centre (2014–2018): A Case Study. Sustainability 2020, 12, 9859 .

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Ricardo Alves, Cátia Caneiras, Ana Santos, Patricia Barbosa, João Cardoso, Paulo Caseiro, Maria Vitorino, João Pereira, Ana Escoval. Medical Electronic Prescription for Home Respiratory Care Services (PEM-CRD) at a Portuguese University Tertiary Care Centre (2014–2018): A Case Study. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (23):9859.

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Ricardo Alves; Cátia Caneiras; Ana Santos; Patricia Barbosa; João Cardoso; Paulo Caseiro; Maria Vitorino; João Pereira; Ana Escoval. 2020. "Medical Electronic Prescription for Home Respiratory Care Services (PEM-CRD) at a Portuguese University Tertiary Care Centre (2014–2018): A Case Study." Sustainability 12, no. 23: 9859.

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Published: 01 January 2019 in Health Care and Government Policy
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Health systems are becoming increasingly complex and hard for their stakeholders to understand. It is now both necessary and possible to address health systems change management from a complexity perspective. To do so, a set of complementary conceptual frameworks that can provide an integrated and comprehensive understanding of relevant change processes in health systems have been identified, described and adopted: (a) a personal and interpersonal problem-solving and development aspirations framework; (b) organisational and managerial strategies; (c) a public policy matrix; and (d) a cultural values map. These conceptual constructs, based on different theoretical contributions, are necessarily subject to continuous updating, review and change.

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Constantino Sakellarides; Ana Escoval; Patrícia Barbosa; Ana Isabel Santos; Ana Rita Pedro; Débora Miranda. Health systems at the stage of complexity. Health Care and Government Policy 2019, 1 .

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Constantino Sakellarides, Ana Escoval, Patrícia Barbosa, Ana Isabel Santos, Ana Rita Pedro, Débora Miranda. Health systems at the stage of complexity. Health Care and Government Policy. 2019; ():1.

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Constantino Sakellarides; Ana Escoval; Patrícia Barbosa; Ana Isabel Santos; Ana Rita Pedro; Débora Miranda. 2019. "Health systems at the stage of complexity." Health Care and Government Policy , no. : 1.

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Published: 20 May 2016 in Tempus Actas de Saúde Coletiva
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Resumo O sistema de saúde português assenta num mix de fontes de financiamento público e privado, tal como acontece em vários países europeus.Dada a sua complexidade, pareceu útil desenvolver um artigo com o objetivo de contribuir para a compreensão do financiamento de saúde em Portugal, tendo em conta as particularidades dos cuidados de saúde primários, dos cuidados hospitalares e ainda dos cuidados continuados.Para esse efeito, foi realizada uma revisão de literatura, com recurso à B-on (Biblioteca do Conhecimento OnlineB-ON - Biblioteca do conhecimento online), através da opção “pesquisa global”, utilizando os descritores financiamento, saúde, Portugal. Como critérios de inclusão foram considerados a existência de um resumo, a disponibilidade integral do artigo online, o período temporal de publicação entre 2005-2015 e o facto de respeitar em concreto o setor da saúde.Os resultados obtidos permitiram a descrição e explicitação das formas de financiamento utilizados no setor da saúde em Portugal, assim como apresentar o modelo de financiamento nos vários níveis de cuidados: primários, hospitalares e continuados.

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Ana Escoval; Ana Tito Lívio Santos; Patrícia Barbosa. Contributo para a compreensão do financiamento da saúde em Portugal: O caso dos cuidados de saúde primários, dos cuidados hospitalares e dos cuidados continuados. Tempus Actas de Saúde Coletiva 2016, 10, 17 -27.

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Ana Escoval, Ana Tito Lívio Santos, Patrícia Barbosa. Contributo para a compreensão do financiamento da saúde em Portugal: O caso dos cuidados de saúde primários, dos cuidados hospitalares e dos cuidados continuados. Tempus Actas de Saúde Coletiva. 2016; 10 (1):17-27.

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Ana Escoval; Ana Tito Lívio Santos; Patrícia Barbosa. 2016. "Contributo para a compreensão do financiamento da saúde em Portugal: O caso dos cuidados de saúde primários, dos cuidados hospitalares e dos cuidados continuados." Tempus Actas de Saúde Coletiva 10, no. 1: 17-27.