Custos das autorizações de internação hospitalar por quedas de idosos no Sistema Único de Saúde, Brasil, 2000-2020: um estudo descritivo

Juliana da Silva  Lima; Deise Vacario de Quadros; Sabrina Letícia Couto da  Silva; Juliana Petri  Tavares; Daiane Dal  Pai

doi:10.1590/S1679-49742022000100012

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Juliana da Silva Lima Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5361-8814
Deise Vacario de Quadros Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6442-2649
Sabrina Letícia Couto da Silva Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Rio Grande do Sul, https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6791-9036
Juliana Petri Tavares Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
Daiane Dal Pai Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1590/S1679-49742022000100012

Keywords:

Accidental Falls, Hospital Costs, Costs and Cost Analysis, Aged, Epidemiology, Descriptive

Abstract

Objective: To describe the costs of hospital admission authorizations (HAA) for falls of elderly within the Unified Health System (SUS), in Brazil. Methods: Descriptive study of costs based on data from the SUS Hospital Information System, through HAA resulting from falls of elderly people aged 60 years and over, in the period 2000 to 2020. Descriptive analyzes were performed and the measurement of costs was carried out by macro-costing. Results: A total of 1,746,097 HAA for falls of elderly were registered, with a cost of R$ 2,315,395,702.75. The proportion of hospitalization costs was higher among the elderly aged 80 years or more (36.9%), among women (60.4%) and in the Southeast region (57.3%). The average length of stay for hospitalization ranged between 5.2 and 7.5 days. Conclusion: The high costs reveal the need for investments in more effective measures to prevent and mitigate the damage resulting from falls in the elderly.