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      <journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">Arq Bras Cardiol</journal-id>
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        <journal-title>Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia</journal-title>
        <abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="publisher">Arq. Bras. Cardiol.</abbrev-journal-title>
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      <issn pub-type="ppub">0066-782X</issn>
      <issn pub-type="epub">1678-4170</issn>
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        <publisher-name>Sociedade Brasileira de Cardiologia - SBC</publisher-name>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.36660/abc.20230033</article-id>
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          <subject>Minieditorial</subject>
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        <article-title>Boas Pr&#225;ticas em Cardiologia &#8211; Uma Li&#231;&#227;o a Partir dos Indicadores de Desempenho</article-title>
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          <contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">0000-0002-6353-040X</contrib-id>
          <name>
            <surname>Bertoletti</surname>
            <given-names>Ot&#225;vio Azevedo</given-names>
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          <institution content-type="orgname">Hospital de Cl&#237;nicas de Porto Alegre</institution>
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            <named-content content-type="city">Porto Alegre</named-content>
            <named-content content-type="state">RS</named-content>
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          <country country="BR">Brasil</country>
          <institution content-type="original">Hospital de Cl&#237;nicas de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre, RS &#8211; Brasil</institution>
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        <corresp id="c1"><bold>Correspond&#234;ncia: Ot&#225;vio Azevedo Bertoletti</bold> &#8226; Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre &#8211; R. Ramiro Barcelos, 2350. CEP <postal-code>90035-903</postal-code>, Porto Alegre, RS &#8211; Brasil. E-mail: <email>otavio.bertoletti@gmail.com</email></corresp>
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      <pub-date publication-format="electronic" date-type="pub">
        <day>07</day>
        <month>04</month>
        <year>2023</year>
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        <year>2023</year>
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      <volume>120</volume>
      <issue>2</issue>
      <elocation-id>e20230033</elocation-id>
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        <title>Palavras-chave</title>
        <kwd>Doen&#231;as Cardiovasculares</kwd>
        <kwd>S&#237;ndrome Coronariana Aguda</kwd>
        <kwd>Insufici&#234;ncia Card&#237;aca</kwd>
        <kwd>Qualidade da Assist&#234;ncia em Sa&#250;de</kwd>
        <kwd>Recursos em Sa&#250;de</kwd>
        <kwd>Aten&#231;&#227;o &#224; Sa&#250;de</kwd>
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    <p>A Organiza&#231;&#227;o Mundial da Sa&#250;de<sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B1">1</xref></sup> considera qualidade na assist&#234;ncia como &#8220;&#8230; o grau em que servi&#231;os de sa&#250;de para indiv&#237;duos e popula&#231;&#245;es aumenta a probabilidade de desfechos de sa&#250;de desejados e que sejam consistentes com o conhecimento profissional baseado em evid&#234;ncias.&#8221; Al&#233;m disso, considera servi&#231;os de sa&#250;de de qualidade aqueles que s&#227;o efetivos, eficientes, seguros, equitativos e centrados nas pessoas.<sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B1">1</xref></sup></p>
    <p>Visando o aumento da qualidade no cuidado cardiovascular em hospitais p&#250;blicos brasileiros surge o Programa Boas Pr&#225;ticas em Cardiologia (BPC),<sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B2">2</xref></sup> iniciativa da Sociedade Brasileira de Cardiologia (SBC) em parceria com o Minist&#233;rio da Sa&#250;de do Brasil e apoio da <italic>American Heart Association</italic> (AHA) e o Hospital HCor, atrav&#233;s da adapta&#231;&#227;o do programa da AHA intitulado <italic>Get With The Guidelines</italic><sup>&#174;</sup> (GWTG).<sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B3">3</xref>,<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B4">4</xref></sup> O programa brasileiro &#233; centrado nas doen&#231;as card&#237;acas de mais elevado custo, como a s&#237;ndrome coronariana aguda (SCA), fibrila&#231;&#227;o atrial e insufici&#234;ncia card&#237;aca (IC). Ele busca reduzir a mortalidade hospitalar, melhorar os processos hospitalares, &#8211; com foco na seguran&#231;a e qualidade assistencial ao paciente cardiol&#243;gico &#8211; e tamb&#233;m reconhecer como centros de excel&#234;ncia em cardiologia os hospitais que atinjam as metas propostas. A m&#233;trica de avalia&#231;&#227;o deste programa baseia-se em identificar a taxa de ades&#227;o dos profissionais de sa&#250;de &#224;s recomenda&#231;&#245;es das diretrizes da SBC e da AHA no tratamento destas tr&#234;s doen&#231;as card&#237;acas. Al&#233;m disso, analisar o efeito sobre os desfechos tempo de interna&#231;&#227;o, mortalidade por doen&#231;a card&#237;aca, mortalidade por todas as causas, reinterna&#231;&#227;o, qualidade de vida e percep&#231;&#227;o de sa&#250;de dos pacientes antes e ap&#243;s a implementa&#231;&#227;o do programa.<sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B2">2</xref></sup></p>
    <p>Contribuindo com esta iniciativa, o estudo de Passaglia et al.,<sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B5">5</xref></sup> se debru&#231;a sobre dados de 1036 pacientes adultos internados com diagn&#243;stico prim&#225;rio de SCA e IC no per&#237;odo de 2016 a 2019 em um hospital p&#250;blico terci&#225;rio de Minas Gerais, onde o Programa BPC foi aplicado.</p>
    <p>Embora neste estudo as taxas de ades&#227;o global dos profissionais assistenciais aos indicadores de desempenho estabelecidos nas diretrizes da SBC e AHA terem sido altas e semelhantes, tanto no tratamento da SCA (92,9%), quanto no tratamento da IC (91,2%), se faz necess&#225;rio escrutinar cada indicador. Na SCA, dos 8 indicadores de desempenho propostos, 7 foram avaliados (a terapia de reperfus&#227;o adequada n&#227;o pode ser aferida). Destes, 6 (aspirina precoce, controle da press&#227;o arterial e, na alta hospitalar, aspirina, inibidor da enzima conversora de angiotensina &#8211; IECA ou bloqueador do receptor de angiotensina &#8211; BRA, betabloqueador e estatina) apresentaram taxa de ades&#227;o acima de 85,0%, <italic>benchmark</italic> estabelecido pelo Programa BPC. O indicador de aconselhamento para parar de fumar ficou em 81,5%. Em rela&#231;&#227;o ao tratamento da IC, dos 5 indicadores de desempenho previstos, somente 3 (avalia&#231;&#227;o de fun&#231;&#227;o ventricular esquerda por ecocardiograma, betabloqueador na alta hospitalar e consulta p&#243;s-alta hospitalar) tiveram taxa de ades&#227;o acima de 85,0%. Os outros 2 (IECA ou BRA e espironolactona na alta hospitalar) ficaram em 82,7% e 70,9%, respectivamente. Ou seja, abaixo do patamar preconizado. A taxa de &#243;bito na interna&#231;&#227;o ficou em 2,9% dos 763 pacientes com SCA e em 17,9% dos 273 pacientes com IC. Os dados evidenciados por este estudo demonstram nitidamente um espa&#231;o para aperfei&#231;oamento nos processos de cuidado e ades&#227;o &#224;s melhores pr&#225;ticas baseadas em evid&#234;ncias no tratamento da IC neste hospital terci&#225;rio p&#250;blico.</p>
    <p>Programas se prop&#245;em a melhorar a qualidade da assist&#234;ncia em hospitais p&#250;blicos do SUS contribuem, de um lado, para a qualidade no atendimento e melhora dos desfechos e, de outro, n&#227;o menos importante, para a redu&#231;&#227;o da inefici&#234;ncia e consequente mitiga&#231;&#227;o de desperd&#237;cios financeiros de recursos escassos. A defini&#231;&#227;o de indicadores, metas de desempenho e monitoramento fazem parte do arcabou&#231;o de conhecimento para a implanta&#231;&#227;o de a&#231;&#245;es que visem &#224; efici&#234;ncia e qualidade da presta&#231;&#227;o de servi&#231;o em sa&#250;de.<sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B6">6</xref></sup> A relev&#226;ncia do estudo de Passaglia et al.<sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B5">5</xref></sup> vem corroborar a import&#226;ncia da utiliza&#231;&#227;o de m&#233;tricas de avalia&#231;&#227;o e acompanhamento, como esta implementada pelo Programa BPC, que objetivamente explicitem defici&#234;ncias e virtudes e contribuem com o aperfei&#231;oamento dos processos hospitalares e da qualidade na assist&#234;ncia em cardiologia.</p>
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        <article-title>Good Practices In Cardiology &#8211; A Lesson From Performance Indicators</article-title>
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        <corresp id="c2"><bold>Mailing Address: Ot&#225;vio Azevedo Bertoletti</bold> &#8226; Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre &#8211; R. Ramiro Barcelos, 2350. Postal Code <postal-code>90035-903</postal-code>, Porto Alegre, RS &#8211; Brazil. E-mail: <email>otavio.bertoletti@gmail.com</email></corresp>
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      <p>The World Health Organization<sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B1">1</xref></sup> considers the quality of care as &#8220;&#8230;the degree to which health services for individuals and populations increase the likelihood of desired health outcomes and are consistent with evidence-based professional knowledge.&#8221; In addition, it considers quality health services to be those that are effective, efficient, safe, equitable, and people-centered.<sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B1">1</xref></sup></p>
      <p>Aiming to increase the quality of cardiovascular care in Brazilian public hospitals, the Good Practices in Cardiology Program (BPC)<sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B2">2</xref></sup> was created, an initiative of the <italic>Sociedade Brasileira de Cardiologia</italic> (SBC) in partnership with the Ministry of Health of Brazil and support from the American Heart Association (AHA) and the Hospital HCor, through the adaptation of the AHA program entitled Get With The Guidelines<sup>&#174;</sup> (GWTG).<sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B3">3</xref>,<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B4">4</xref></sup> The Brazilian program focuses on the most expensive heart diseases, such as acute coronary syndrome (ACS), atrial fibrillation (AF), and heart failure (HF). It seeks to reduce hospital mortality, improve hospital processes &#8211; with a focus on safety and quality of care for cardiac patients &#8211; and also recognize hospitals that achieve the proposed goals as centers of excellence in cardiology. The evaluation metric of this program is based on identifying the adherence rate of health professionals to the recommendations of the SBC and AHA guidelines in treating these three heart diseases. In addition, to analyze the effect on the outcomes, length of stay, mortality from heart disease, all-cause mortality, rehospitalization, quality of life, and patients perception of health before and after the program implementation.<sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B2">2</xref></sup></p>
      <p>Contributing to this initiative, the study by Passaglia et al.<sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B5">5</xref></sup> focuses on data from 1036 adult patients hospitalized with a primary diagnosis of ACS and HF from 2016 to 2019 in a tertiary public hospital in Minas Gerais, where the BPC Program implementation was applied.</p>
      <p>Although in this study the overall adherence rates of healthcare professionals attending performance indicators established in the SBC and AHA guidelines have been high and similar, both in the treatment of ACS (92.9%), as in the treatment of HF (91.2%), it is necessary scrutinize each indicator. In ACS, of the eight proposed performance indicators, seven were evaluated (appropriate reperfusion therapy cannot be measured). Of these, six (early aspirin, blood pressure control and, at hospital discharge, aspirin, angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor - ACE inhibitor or angiotensin receptor blocker - ARB, beta-blocker, and statin) showed adherence rate above 85.0%, benchmark established by the BPC Program. The indicator counseling to stop smoking was 81.5%. Regarding the treatment of HF, of the five predicted performance indicators, only three (evaluation of left ventricular function by echocardiogram, beta-blocker at hospital discharge, and post-hospital discharge consultation) had an adherence rate above 85.0%. The other two (ACEI or ARB and spironolactone at hospital discharge) were 82.7% and 70.9%, respectively. Both are below the recommended level. The death rate during hospitalization was 2.9% of the 763 patients with ACS and 17.9% of the 273 patients with HF. The data evidenced by this study clearly demonstrate a space for improvement in care processes and adherence to evidence-based to the best evidence-based practices in the treatment of HF in this public tertiary hospital.</p>
      <p>Programs that aim to improve the quality of care in hospitals in the Brazilian public health system (SUS) contribute, on the one hand, to the quality of care and improvement of outcomes and, on the other hand, not least, to the reduction of inefficiency and consequent mitigation of financial waste of scarce resources. The definition of indicators, performance targets, and monitoring are parts of the knowledge framework for implementing actions aimed at the efficiency and quality of health service delivery.<sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B6">6</xref></sup> The relevance of the study by Passaglia et al.<sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B5">5</xref></sup> corroborates the importance of using evaluation and follow-up metrics, such as the one implemented by the BPC Program, which objectively reveals deficiencies and virtues and contributes to the improvement of hospital processes and the quality of care in cardiology.</p>
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          <p>Short editorial related to the article: Cardiovascular Statistics from the Good Practices in Cardiology Program &#8211; Data from a Brazilian Tertiary Public Hospital</p>
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