Um estudo sobre os custos dos procedimentos ambulatoriais do serviço de psiquiatria do Hospital Universitário Pedro Ernesto - HUPE em função da pandemia

Abstract

During the pandemic, hospital costs were impacted due to the increase in the number of COVID-19 cases, which overloaded healthcare systems, leading to additional costs related to the treatment of infected patients and especially mental health costs. From the identification of costs in procedures for diseases linked to mental health in the adult population in the psychiatry service of Hospital Universitário Pedro Ernesto - HUPE, in the years 2020 to 2022, that is, during the pandemic period and, additionally, in the year 2023, twelve months after its completion, the present study was prepared, which aims to propose guidelines for evaluating the costs of procedures for diseases linked to mental health in the adult population in the HUPE psychiatry service in the aforementioned period. This study is justified by studies by Nabuco et al (2020), Correia Dias et al (2021), which point to impacts on mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic. There is also a gap in the main databases, such as: Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations - BDTD, Scientific Electronic Library Online - SciELO, Virtual Health Library - VHL, Google Scholar and Scopus, in correlational studies on the themes of costs and mental health in the COVID-19 pandemic, in which the keyword search did not find scientific articles that addressed the themes of this research. The methodology consisted of, based on contextualization interviews carried out, the collection of information on the direct and indirect costs related to mental health procedures carried out in the service in question. As a result, guidelines were proposed for implementing a cost system at HUPE, based on current legislation, field studies and literature recommendations.