Análise dos mandados judiciais no Complexo Regulador do Município do Rio de Janeiro no período de março de 2020 a março de 2022

Abstract

The judicialization of healthcare in Brazil has increased significantly in recent decades. The search for legal mechanismsto resolve healthcare issues, such as medicationdispensing, hospitalizations, consultations, examinations, diagnoses, and various therapies, is primarily conducted through court orders. The objective of this research was toanalyze the courtorders received by the Regulatory Complex of the Municipality of Rio de Janeiro, referringtohospitalizationdecisionsduringtheperiodbetweenMarch 2020 andMarch 2022, through a quantitativeandqualitativestudyof data receivedfromreportsissuedbythe Health Information Systems Sector oftheRegulatory Complex oftheMunicipalityof Rio de Janeiro. The analysisincludedvariousinformation, such as thetypeofvacancy, theprogramarea in which there questing and executing units are located, and the out come ofthe warrant duringthe COVID-19 pandemic. The research also compared data from the pandemic period with those from the periods that preceded and followed it, delimited between March 2019 and February 2020 and April 2022 and March 2023. Amongthe results, we show that the most judicialized type of vacancy in the three periods studied was for Intenvise Care Unit (ICU), that there questing units were predominantly those belonging to the Municipality of Rio de Janeiro and with a hospital profile, and the Program Area Coordination (CAP)withthehighestnumberofrequestswas CAP 3.2. All time periods had their data subjected to numerical analysis and complementary statistical study.