Breve análise da categoria de satisfação na obra de Donabedian

Abstract

As a researcher in the Department of Planning of the Institute of Social Medicine, State University of Rio de Janeiro, had access to literature on the assessment of quality of health services from the perspective of the user. These studies, paradigmatic in the area are (mostly) guided by a functionalist approach that let us ajar conceptual issues we prioritize. How to incorporate in instrumental elaborate and distinct realities of Brazil without prior theoretical reset, so political? In this study, the privileged object of our reflections is the work of Avedis Donabedian, author ha over twenty years studying and researching Quality Assessment Health Services Using the methodology of discourse analysis approach, in Chapter II, the main ideas with which the author systematizes its Normative Model, emphasizing the understanding of patient satisfaction as one of the measures of assessing the quality of care provided.