Saltos SJV, Bravo MC, Ramos AY, Ramírez BFD, López AAI, Martinez AJ

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ABSTRACT

Introduction: the quality of management in health care services is an exigency producing benefits both for the population and for health institutions, especially in Cuba, where “health services are free, but they cost.” The quality costs are indicators of efficiency, particularly in the items associated to failures assessing resources misspent for a deficient management, and on which the actions should be focused for getting improvement.
Objective: to identify the costs by failures, in tight relation with the analysis of their causes and workers´ satisfaction.
Materials and methods: a descriptive study was carried out. Methodologically, it was a field research on the bases of surveys applied to workers, documental reviewing, and evaluation of cost items by extension of the accounting system or estimation, according to the case, and also the causal analyses performed by an expert group of the organization, with representatives of the different areas of the clinic being studied.
Results: the failures that occurred during 2014 are monetarily evaluated, coming to $ 12 260.49. The highest amounts were associated to re-elaborations and wastes. The causal analysis showed a strong incidence of the workers in the occurrence of those inefficiencies, predominating negligence. The workers´ dissatisfaction was in general average 2.94 (under 3), what may be interpreted like if they receive less than they expect, essentially as for salary, working conditions and participation in decision-making.
Conclusions: the amount of the cost associated to failures in the management of the services in the Dental Clinic “III Congreso del PCC” is established, aligned with the analysis of the workers´ satisfaction as main causal element striking in the quality of the services in that institution; they should elaborate and carried out a plan for the improvement of their management.