PubMed · 15603213
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2004. Less is more.. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15603213/
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The response of healthcare services to new information systems depends upon, among other factors, their local organization. This study aimed at comparing the chemotherapy and radiotherapy production registers for the cities Rio de Janeiro and Belo Horizonte, Brazil, in the Ambulatory Information System of the Unified Brazilian Health System (in Portuguese, SUS) between November/1998 and February/2003. Both cities showed a pattern of increase for the chemotherapy production series, while the radiotherapy series showed such increase only for Rio de Janeiro. Comparing Box-Jenkins models for each series, Rio de Janeiro showed a delay of three months in recording production, due to public services. In Belo Horizonte, the delay was shorter than in Rio de Janeiro and there was no difference between public and non-public services. The observed differences between the cities seem to be associated with the fact that Belo Horizonte already had a mechanism to control and evaluate production before the introduction of the system in 1998.
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