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ISSN - Electrónico: 2661-6947 / DOI: 10.36015 • LILACS BIREME (19784); LATINDEX (20666)
INTRODUCTION. Health, a right established in the Magna Carta of the countries, obliges and guarantees this service. Patient dissatisfied with non-access or medications coverage promotes litigation that violates the management administration, his knowledge is essential. OBJECTIVE. Describe the demographic and epidemiological profile of patients and cases prosecuted for drugs not authorized by prescription. MATERIALS AND METHODS. Retrospective study with universe and known sample of 36 patients. Inclusion criteria: all years of age and sex, with a judicial process for medications at the Carlos Andrade Marín Specialities Hospital of the Ecuadorian Social Security Institute, period October 2016 to September 2019. Data obtained from the AS400 System and administrative areas, analyzed in Excel and SPSS version 23.0 programs. RESULTS. The male sex predominated 61,0% (22; 36), Cronbach’s Alpha 07, age range 3 - 77 years and a half of 44. More judicialized medications: omalizumab 33,3% (12; 36) and atalureno 13, 9% (5; 36). The prevalent diseases: Persistent Asthma, Muscular Dystrophy and Lung Cancer predominated. 86,1% (31; 36) patients lived. The judicial instance by the Prosecutor, 44,4% (16; 36) was a precautionary measure and won the trial. CONCLUSION. Judicialization was an option for patients who guaranteed their right to health in the face of catastrophic, rare or orphan diseases, achieved access to and coverage of unavailable medications, or authorized their prescription, caused an extra-budgetary cost and violated the hospital’s management administration.
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