Evaluating pharmaceutical assistance activities in Brazilian hospitals

This work aims at identifying and evaluating the associations between the pharmaceutical assistance activities in hospital pharmacies services (HPS). The Multiple Correspondence Analysis (MCA) was applied to a sample of 238 hospitals and 30 variables from the survey Diagnosis of Hospital Pharmacy in Brazil. The first dimension of the MCA explained 90.6% of the data variability and allowed discriminate the HPS according to the presence or not of activities. It is noticeable an association between the presence of activities and better categories with large hospitals.