The importance of innovation networks in health information system transformation has been recognised in research. It has been agreed that better-organised innovation networks can be related to better results of patient information system transformation. However, current research do not know much about how those innovation networks are organised, especially the structure of teamwork and information exchange in innovation networks. Thus, this study aims to improve the understanding about how innovation networks are organised and the influences on innovation results. Based on innovation network theory, this study develops and integrates three aspects, network dynamics, network structure and network influence, to explore innovation networks in patient information system transformation. Network dynamics represent complex interactions among people in the process of innovation; network structures show each person's roles and connections in the network; and and network influences link network structures to patient information system upgrade outcomes. Following this theoretical framework, this study answers three research questions: 1) what are the network patterns appearing frequently in network dynamics? 2) What are the patterns of the network structures? 3) To what extent innovation networks can influence the innovation outcomes? The data are collected form four patient record transformation projects in China. This study adopts network analysis method to demonstrate the fabrics of collaborations among the participants in innovation and quantify the regular network patterns and structures. Then, this study uses network regression modelling to explore the relations between innovation networks and innovation outcomes. This study contributes to innovation network research and by presenting 1) the patterns of innovation network dynamics. It demonstrates various patterns of innovation networks in each innovation stages; 2) the innovation network structures. This study identifies five types of brokers and two structures co-existing in the innovation network; 3) network influence. This study suggests that network structures significantly influence the outcomes.

Ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) play an important role in providing surgical and diagnostic services in an outpatient setting. They can be owned by physicians who staff them. Previous studies focused on patient “cherry picking” and over-utilization of services due to physician ownership. Few studies examined the relationship between physician ownership and quality of care. Using a retrospective cohort of patients who underwent colonoscopy, this study examined the effect of physician ownership of ASCs on the occurrence of adverse events after outpatient colonoscopy. Agency theory is used to as a conceptual framework. Depending on the extent to which consumers are able to assess quality of care differences across health care settings, physician ownership can function as a mechanism to improve quality or as a deterrent to quality. Four adverse event measures are used in this study: same day ED visit or hospitalization, 30-day serious gastrointestinal events resulting in ED visit or hospitalization, 30-day other gastrointestinal events resulting in ED visit or hospitalization, and 30-day non-gastrointestinal events resulting in ED visit or hospitalization. Physician ownership status is determined based on a court decision in California in 2007. Data sources include the State Ambulatory Surgery Databases (SASD), State Inpatient Databases (SID), Emergency Department Databases (SEDD), State Utilization Data Files, the Area Resource File (ARF), and HMO/PPO data from Health Leaders. After controlling for confounding factors, the study found that colonoscopy patients treated at a physician-owned ASC had similar odds of experiencing same day ED visit or hospitalization and 30-day non-gastrointestinal events resulting in ED visit or hospitalization as those treated in a hospital-based outpatient facility. But the former had significantly higher odds of experiencing 30-day serious gastrointestinal events and 30-day other gastrointestinal events resulting in ED visit or hospitalization. The results are robust to changes in propensity score adjustment approach and to the inclusion of a lagged quality indicator. They suggest that physician ownership of ASCs was not associated with better quality of care for colonoscopy patients. As more complex procedures are shifted from hospital-based outpatient facilities to ASCs, expanded efforts to monitor and report quality of care will be worthwhile.

Diss. (sammanfattning) Stockholm : Karolinska institutet, 2006. / Härtill 5 uppsatser.

Over the past 25 years, health care organization scholars have observed the dramatic emergence of hospital-based clusters in local markets throughout the U.S. These important organizational forms require same-system ownership of multiple general, acute care hospitals operating within a single local market, and as such they include multi-hospital systems that are entirely contained in a single urban market as well as clustered extensions or subsystems of larger regional and national systems. However, despite their noted growth as powerful forces in local markets, relatively few studies have examined these clusters, and as a result there remains a significant gap in our knowledge regarding their continued growth or the diverse components and configurations they may exhibit. This study endeavors to both describe and explain the diversity observed across hospital-based clusters. To fulfill this objective, a national inventory of clusters is updated to reflect cluster membership as of 2012, and a catalog of cluster components – including their hospital-based and non-hospital-based sites – is created, acknowledging that clusters today consist of more than just general, acute care hospitals. Cluster analysis methods are then employed to develop a taxonomy of cluster forms, using a sample of 114 clusters from local markets in Florida, Maryland, Nevada, Texas, Virginia, and Washington. Applying a conceptual framework informed by concepts from contingency theory and strategic management theory, cluster analysis methods yield a five-group solution, which is then externally validated using a multi-theoretical perspective synthesizing arguments from population ecology, institutional theory, industrial organization economics, transaction cost economics, and resource dependence theory. Results from descriptive and multinomial logistic regression analyses identify organizational and environmental factors that are significantly associated with various cluster forms. The study’s results suggest that today’s hospital-based clusters continue to grow and vary according to the dimensions of differentiation-configuration and integration-coordination. These findings provide a foundation for future examinations of hospital-based clusters, including their provision of services within and outside of hospital walls. These results also accentuate the importance of accounting for geographic considerations when examining health care organization forms, and they display the utility and value of employing a multi-theoretical perspective to examine and explain such complex forms.

When care is moved from the hospital to the home the demands for high quality care still remain. For problems arising from the geographical separation of patients and professional caregivers, information and communication technology may offer important solutions. The overall aim of this thesis was to describe relevant requirements, to design and implement an IT-based system, and finally to evaluate the system’s influence on symptom control and support for both patients/next-of-kin and professional caregivers in advanced home healthcare. Of importance were needs in basic as well as advanced home healthcare, as were usability perspectives of both patients and professional caregivers. Requirement areas such as security, mobility, and responsibility, which should be considered when monitoring patients in the home, were identified. A prototype system for everyday assistance for diabetes patients was designed, and a system for frequent pain assessment for palliative home healthcare patients using a pain diary, digital pen and mobile Internet technology, was developed and evaluated through a qualitative content analysis approach. Twelve palliative cancer patients and six professional caregivers participated. The data collected included an ease-of-use questionnaire, and interviews with patients, spouses and professional caregivers. Patients expressed increased and improved contact with the caregivers, increased participation in their own care, a sense of increased security, and easiness in using the equipment in spite of severe illness and difficulties in comprehending the technology and system intervention. The professional caregivers showed a shifting outlook towards the pain assessment method; an initial cautious outlook due to low expectations of the patients’ abilities to use the pain assessment method and the caregivers’ own reluctance to use the system and change their way-of-working. Despite this, the professional caregivers experienced positive outcomes in terms of an increased awareness of pain, and positive patient influences including increased participation in their care, increased security and improved changes in pain treatment as a response to reported pain assessments. In conclusion, the networked digital pen system provided an effortless method for pain assessment and had positive influences on the care. The results imply that digital pen technology is suitable for the assessment of symptoms by palliative patients since these patients often have a limited capacity to handle technology due to their state of health. / On the day of the public defence date of the doctoral thesis the status of article III and IV was Submitted.

Diss. (sammanfattning) Umeå : Univ., 2008. / Härtill 4 uppsatser.

Introdução. Embora existam diferentes estratégias para a prestação de cuidados paliativos ao paciente com câncer, pouco se conhece sobre a efetividade desses modelos. Objetivos. Comparar os efeitos da equipe de cuidado paliativo integrada ao cuidado tradicional com o cuidado tradicional sozinho no controle de sintomas em paciente com câncer avançado hospitalizado. Método. Estudo longitudinal composto por dois grupos não randomizados. 73 pacientes foram admitidos para a equipe de cuidado paliativo integrada ao cuidado tradicional (Grupo ECP) e comparados a 75 atendidos no modelo de cuidado tradicional (Grupo CT). Os sintomas foram avaliados pela Escala de Avaliação de Sintomas de Edmonton (ESAS), a satisfação por escala numérica verbal (0-10), a funcionalidade pela Escala de Desempenho Funcional Físico Karnofsky (KPS) e a adequação analgésica pelo Índice de Manejo da Dor (IMD). Os pacientes foram avaliados na admissão, após 24 e 48 horas. O desfecho primário foi a melhora clinica significativa de 2 pontos na intensidade da dor e da náusea em 48 horas, comparados com a admissão. Os dados demográficos, os sintomas e sua redução foram comparados entre os Grupos pelo Teste Exato de Fisher ou Mann Whitney. O Teste de Wilcoxon analisou alterações dos sintomas intragrupos. A regressão múltipla de Poisson controlou fatores de confusão para a melhora do sintoma. O nível de significância adotado foi de 5%. Resultados. A prevalência de sintomas foi alta em ambos os grupos: no Grupo ECP a variação foi de 43.8% (depressão) a 87.7% (sensação de bem estar), e no Grupo CT, de 24% (dispneia) a 85.5% (dor). A magnitude dos sintomas, pelo escore da mediana, foi importante em ambos os Grupos: na admissão, no Grupo ECP, variou entre 5.5 (sensação de bem estar) a 8.0 (ansiedade, apetite, constipação e tristeza), e no Grupo CT, variou de 6.0 (sensação de bem estar e dispneia) a 9.0 (perda do apetite). A mediana de sobrecarga de sintomas, avaliada pelo ESAS, foi de 50.0 em ambos os grupos. Na análise de 24 horas (intragrupo), no Grupo ECP cinco sintomas (dor, náusea, perda do apetite, dispneia, prejuízo do sono) e sobrecarga de sintomas foram reduzidos (p<0.05), enquanto no Grupo Grupo CT três sintomas (dor, náusea e prejuízo do sono) foram reduzidos (p<0.05). Na análise de 48 horas (intragrupo), dez sintomas e sobrecarga de sintomas no Grupo ECP foram reduzidos (p<0.05), enquanto quatro sintomas melhoraram no Grupo CT (p<0.05). A regressão múltipla mostrou que a dor (RR= 2.2 [IC95%1.27-3.81]) e bem estar (RR=4.6 [IC95% 1.34-15.88]) reduziram 2 pontos e foi favorável somente no Grupo ECP. Verificou-se melhor adequação da analgesia no Grupo ECP comparado ao CT (p<0.05). A satisfação do doente foi elevada e similar em ambos os grupos. Conclusão. Os doentes de ambos os grupos mostraram grande sobrecarga de sintomas e somente o sintoma dor foi adequadamente controlado pelo Grupo ECP. Os resultados encontrados demandam análise de fatores da estratégia de tratamento que possam melhorar a efetividade das ações, como avaliação sistematizada dos sintomas em curtos períodos e estratégias que permitam ajuste rápido da terapêutica quando necessário. / Introduction. Although there are many different strategies for provision of palliative care to patients with cancer, little is known about the effectiveness of these modalities. Objective.To compare the effects of a palliative care team integrated with traditional care to traditional care alone on symptom control in inpatients with advanced cancer. Method. Longitudinal study composed of two non-randomized groups. Seventy-three patients were admitted to the palliative care team integrated to traditional care (PCT Group) and compared to 75 patients treated in the traditional care model (TC Group). Symptoms were assessed by the Edmonton Symptom Assessment Scale (ESAS), satisfaction with treatment by the verbal numeric scale (0-10), performance status by the Karnofsky Performance Status Scale (KPS) and analgesic adequacy by the Pain Management Index (PMI). Patients were assessed upon admission, and after 24 and 48 hours. The primary outcomes were significant clinical improvements of 2 points in pain intensity and nausea in 48 hours, compared to admission. The demographic data, symptoms, and reduction in symptoms were compared between the groups by using Fisher\'s or Mann Whitneys Exact Tests. The Wilcoxon test examined the intragroup alteration of symptoms. The Poisson multiple regression controlled for confounding factors of improvement in symptoms. A p-value of 0.05 indicated statistical significance for all analyses. Results. The prevalence of symptoms at admission was high in both groups. In the PCT Group, it ranged from 43.8% (depression) to 87.7% (loss of well-being) and, in the TC Group, it ranged from 24% (dyspnoea) to 85.5% (pain). The magnitude of median score of symptoms was substantial in both groups: at admission for the PCT group, it ranged from 5.5 (sense of well-being) to 8.0 (anxiety, appetite, constipation, sadness), while for the TC Group, it ranged from 6.0 (sense of well-being and dyspnoea) to 9.0 (loss of appetite). The median score of the symptom burden assessed by ESAS was 50.0 in both groups. In 24 hours (intragroup), the PCT Group had significant reductions in intensity of five symptoms (pain, nausea, loss of appetite, dyspnoea, and sleep disturbance) and symptom burden, while the TC Group had significant reductions in intensity of three symptoms (pain, nausea, and sleep disturbance). In 48 hours (intragroup), the PCT Group had significant reductions in intensity of ten symptoms and symptom burden and while the TC Group had significant improve in intensity of four symptoms. Multiple regression analysis showed that pain (RR = 2.2 [95% CI 1.27-3.81]) and loss of well-being (RR = 4.6 [95% CI 1.34-15.88]) were reduced by two points and it was significantly more favourable only in the PCT Group. The PMI revealed better adequacy of analgesia in the PCT Group. Satisfaction was high and similar in both groups. Conclusion. Patients with advanced cancer in both groups showed a pronounced burden of symptoms and only pain was properly controlled in the PCT Group. The results indicate that factors that can improve treatment strategy should be implemented to improve the effectiveness of clinical assistance. Examples of factors that can improve treatment are frequent and systematic assessment of symptoms in short periods, and strategies that allow for timely adjustment of therapy when necessary.

Introdução. Embora existam diferentes estratégias para a prestação de cuidados paliativos ao paciente com câncer, pouco se conhece sobre a efetividade desses modelos. Objetivos. Comparar os efeitos da equipe de cuidado paliativo integrada ao cuidado tradicional com o cuidado tradicional sozinho no controle de sintomas em paciente com câncer avançado hospitalizado. Método. Estudo longitudinal composto por dois grupos não randomizados. 73 pacientes foram admitidos para a equipe de cuidado paliativo integrada ao cuidado tradicional (Grupo ECP) e comparados a 75 atendidos no modelo de cuidado tradicional (Grupo CT). Os sintomas foram avaliados pela Escala de Avaliação de Sintomas de Edmonton (ESAS), a satisfação por escala numérica verbal (0-10), a funcionalidade pela Escala de Desempenho Funcional Físico Karnofsky (KPS) e a adequação analgésica pelo Índice de Manejo da Dor (IMD). Os pacientes foram avaliados na admissão, após 24 e 48 horas. O desfecho primário foi a melhora clinica significativa de 2 pontos na intensidade da dor e da náusea em 48 horas, comparados com a admissão. Os dados demográficos, os sintomas e sua redução foram comparados entre os Grupos pelo Teste Exato de Fisher ou Mann Whitney. O Teste de Wilcoxon analisou alterações dos sintomas intragrupos. A regressão múltipla de Poisson controlou fatores de confusão para a melhora do sintoma. O nível de significância adotado foi de 5%. Resultados. A prevalência de sintomas foi alta em ambos os grupos: no Grupo ECP a variação foi de 43.8% (depressão) a 87.7% (sensação de bem estar), e no Grupo CT, de 24% (dispneia) a 85.5% (dor). A magnitude dos sintomas, pelo escore da mediana, foi importante em ambos os Grupos: na admissão, no Grupo ECP, variou entre 5.5 (sensação de bem estar) a 8.0 (ansiedade, apetite, constipação e tristeza), e no Grupo CT, variou de 6.0 (sensação de bem estar e dispneia) a 9.0 (perda do apetite). A mediana de sobrecarga de sintomas, avaliada pelo ESAS, foi de 50.0 em ambos os grupos. Na análise de 24 horas (intragrupo), no Grupo ECP cinco sintomas (dor, náusea, perda do apetite, dispneia, prejuízo do sono) e sobrecarga de sintomas foram reduzidos (p<0.05), enquanto no Grupo Grupo CT três sintomas (dor, náusea e prejuízo do sono) foram reduzidos (p<0.05). Na análise de 48 horas (intragrupo), dez sintomas e sobrecarga de sintomas no Grupo ECP foram reduzidos (p<0.05), enquanto quatro sintomas melhoraram no Grupo CT (p<0.05). A regressão múltipla mostrou que a dor (RR= 2.2 [IC95%1.27-3.81]) e bem estar (RR=4.6 [IC95% 1.34-15.88]) reduziram 2 pontos e foi favorável somente no Grupo ECP. Verificou-se melhor adequação da analgesia no Grupo ECP comparado ao CT (p<0.05). A satisfação do doente foi elevada e similar em ambos os grupos. Conclusão. Os doentes de ambos os grupos mostraram grande sobrecarga de sintomas e somente o sintoma dor foi adequadamente controlado pelo Grupo ECP. Os resultados encontrados demandam análise de fatores da estratégia de tratamento que possam melhorar a efetividade das ações, como avaliação sistematizada dos sintomas em curtos períodos e estratégias que permitam ajuste rápido da terapêutica quando necessário. / Introduction. Although there are many different strategies for provision of palliative care to patients with cancer, little is known about the effectiveness of these modalities. Objective.To compare the effects of a palliative care team integrated with traditional care to traditional care alone on symptom control in inpatients with advanced cancer. Method. Longitudinal study composed of two non-randomized groups. Seventy-three patients were admitted to the palliative care team integrated to traditional care (PCT Group) and compared to 75 patients treated in the traditional care model (TC Group). Symptoms were assessed by the Edmonton Symptom Assessment Scale (ESAS), satisfaction with treatment by the verbal numeric scale (0-10), performance status by the Karnofsky Performance Status Scale (KPS) and analgesic adequacy by the Pain Management Index (PMI). Patients were assessed upon admission, and after 24 and 48 hours. The primary outcomes were significant clinical improvements of 2 points in pain intensity and nausea in 48 hours, compared to admission. The demographic data, symptoms, and reduction in symptoms were compared between the groups by using Fisher\'s or Mann Whitneys Exact Tests. The Wilcoxon test examined the intragroup alteration of symptoms. The Poisson multiple regression controlled for confounding factors of improvement in symptoms. A p-value of 0.05 indicated statistical significance for all analyses. Results. The prevalence of symptoms at admission was high in both groups. In the PCT Group, it ranged from 43.8% (depression) to 87.7% (loss of well-being) and, in the TC Group, it ranged from 24% (dyspnoea) to 85.5% (pain). The magnitude of median score of symptoms was substantial in both groups: at admission for the PCT group, it ranged from 5.5 (sense of well-being) to 8.0 (anxiety, appetite, constipation, sadness), while for the TC Group, it ranged from 6.0 (sense of well-being and dyspnoea) to 9.0 (loss of appetite). The median score of the symptom burden assessed by ESAS was 50.0 in both groups. In 24 hours (intragroup), the PCT Group had significant reductions in intensity of five symptoms (pain, nausea, loss of appetite, dyspnoea, and sleep disturbance) and symptom burden, while the TC Group had significant reductions in intensity of three symptoms (pain, nausea, and sleep disturbance). In 48 hours (intragroup), the PCT Group had significant reductions in intensity of ten symptoms and symptom burden and while the TC Group had significant improve in intensity of four symptoms. Multiple regression analysis showed that pain (RR = 2.2 [95% CI 1.27-3.81]) and loss of well-being (RR = 4.6 [95% CI 1.34-15.88]) were reduced by two points and it was significantly more favourable only in the PCT Group. The PMI revealed better adequacy of analgesia in the PCT Group. Satisfaction was high and similar in both groups. Conclusion. Patients with advanced cancer in both groups showed a pronounced burden of symptoms and only pain was properly controlled in the PCT Group. The results indicate that factors that can improve treatment strategy should be implemented to improve the effectiveness of clinical assistance. Examples of factors that can improve treatment are frequent and systematic assessment of symptoms in short periods, and strategies that allow for timely adjustment of therapy when necessary.

Population-based administrative data (2009-2012) from several sources were used to compare the health status and access to health services between a cohort of children in care with developmental disabilities (DD) (n=1,212) and a matched comparison group of children in care without DD (n=2,424). The two study groups were compared on a number of measures, including total respiratory morbidity, prevalence of diabetes, mood and anxiety disorders, continuity of care, injury-related hospitalizations, hospital-based dental care, and total number of ambulatory physician visits. Children in care with DD were significantly more likely to have a history of mood and anxiety disorders, respiratory illnesses, diabetes, hospital-based dental care, and injury-related hospitalizations compared to the matched comparison group. Children in care with DD also had significantly higher number of physician visits than children in the matched comparison group. No significant difference between the two study groups was found for continuity of care. / October 2015

Este estudo de inspiração genealógica, inserido na vertente pós-estruturalista, objetivou problematizar o acontecimento da atenção domiciliar, para conhecer os saberes e as condições de possibilidade que sustentam sua rede discursiva. O material empírico foi constituído por documentos legais como: políticas públicas, decretos, portarias, resoluções que se referiram a atenção domiciliar em saúde, publicados no Diário Oficial da União, desde o início do século XX. A primeira etapa para organização do material se constituiu na busca de documentos que se referiam à atenção domiciliar no sitio Jus Brasil, sendo encontradas 1059 páginas que mencionavam atenção domiciliar. A leitura do material selecionado buscava identificar a relação dos documentos com o tema e foi organizada em pastas identificadas pelo ano de publicação. Na segunda etapa, após leitura aprofundada, os excertos que teriam poder de fazer circular determinadas verdades foram organizados em planilha eletrônica, com informações sobre a referência do documento, quem falava e os procedimentos de limitação. A terceira etapa consistiu na leitura da planilha para identificação das relações de poder e saber. Na quarta etapa, as unidades analíticas foram construídas, sendo utilizadas para a análise documental algumas ferramentas propostas por Michel Foucault, como forma de martelar o pensamento, tais como: poder, governamento, biopolítica, saber, discurso, norma e dispositivo. Foram organizadas quatro unidades analíticas: Vigilância no domicílio: tecnologia disciplinar; Serviço médico domiciliar e a população operária: nascimento da biopolítica; Saúde para todos: tecnologia regulamentadora da vida e Melhor em Casa: dispositivo de segurança. A primeira unidade trata da vigilância do doente no domicílio. Tendo em vista a incidência da tuberculose, foi organizado um serviço de enfermeiras visitadoras que produziam saberes registrados em relatórios acerca das pessoas e suas doenças naquele período. A segunda unidade foi organizada acerca do Serviço de Assistência Médico Domiciliar, que teve como condições de possibilidade a mobilização dos operários e a organização dos sindicatos a partir da segunda década do século XX. Tal medida, a partir da medicalização do corpo do operário, se constituiu em uma estratégia de controle do absenteísmo. A terceira unidade aborda o Sistema Único de Saúde como estratégia da biopolítica, que teve como condições de possibilidade as lutas contra um modelo de saúde centrado no hospital, na tecnologia, e era excludente, já que incluía apenas os contribuintes da previdência social. Tal sistema público e democrático previa a participação de todos, em oposição ao sistema anterior que contemplava apenas os trabalhadores. A atenção domiciliar como dispositivo de segurança, a partir dos anos 2000, teve como condições de possibilidade o aumento das doenças crônico-degenerativas e a “crise” no hospital, que pretende liberar leitos para a alta tecnologia, prestando atendimento ao paciente com condições crônicas e incuráveis no domicílio, apontando a casa como lugar mais seguro e melhor para o paciente que fica próximo da família e longe do risco de infecção hospitalar. Ao longo deste estudo genealógico, apresento as descontinuidades e diferentes configurações que a atenção domiciliar apresentou no Brasil, apontando que a prioridade destas políticas não foram as pessoas, mas a Economia. / This study of genealogical inspiration, inserted in the poststructuralist area of knowledge, aimed to problematize the event of home care to know the knowledge and the conditions of possibility that support its discursive network. The empirical material was constituted by legal documents, such as: public policies, decrees, ordinances, dictums that refer to the home care in health, which were published in the Diário Oficial da União, since the beginning of century XX. The first step to the organization of material was constituted on searching documents that referred themselves to home care in the Jus Brasil place, which enabled the finding of 1059 pages that mentioned home care. The material selected through reading, which focused on identifying the relation from the document with the issue, was organized in folders identified by the year of publication. In the second step, with a deep reading, excerpts that would have power to make circulating determined truths were organized in electronic charts, which had information about reference from the document, the excerpt, who was talking about, and procedures of limiting. The third step constituted on the reading of the chart to the identification of power and knowledge relations. In the fourth step, the analytical unities were being construed, and for the documental analysis was used some tools from Michel Foucault, as a way to hammer the thought, such as: power, governmentality, biopolitics, knowledge, discourse, norm, and dispositive. Four analytical unities were formed: surveillance at home: disciplinary technology; Home Medical Assistance and the worker population: birth of biopolitics; health for everybody: a statutory technology of life and The Best at Home: security dispositive. The first unity is about the oversight of the sick at home. Having the focus on tuberculosis, it was organized a services of nurses who were visitors, and that produced knowledge recorded about people and their diseases in that period. The second one was organized about the Home Medical Assistance, which had as conditions of possibility the mobilization of workers and the organization of syndicates from the century XX. This step, through the medicalization of the worker body, constituted in a control strategy of absenteeism. The third one approaches the Unique Health System as a strategy of biopolitic, which had as conditions of possibility to fight against a model of health centralized on hospital, on technology, and it was exclusionary, since it included just the contributors of welfare. This public and democratic system wanted the participation of everybody, which was opposite to the previous system, which attained just the workers. The home care as a security dispositif, after 2000, had as conditions of possibility the chronic-degenerative diseases, due to the increase of life expectancy; the “crisis” in the hospital, which aims to release beds to the high technology, assisting the patient with chronic and incurable conditions at home. Therefore, the discourse constitutes house as the safer place, and the best for the patient, who stays in their home, close to the family, far away from the risk of hospital infection. During the performance of this genealogical study, I present the discontinuities and different configurations that home care presented in Brazil, which states that the priority of these polices weren’t people, but the economy. / Este estudio de inspiración genealógica, inserido en la vertiente pos-estructuralista, objetivó problematizar el acontecimiento de la atención domiciliaria, para conocer los saberes y las condiciones de posibilidad que sustentan su red discursiva. El material empírico fue constituido por documentos legales como: políticas públicas, decretos, portarías, resoluciones, que refirieran a la atención domiciliaria en salud, publicados en el Diário Oficial da União, desde el inicio del siglo XX. La primera etapa para la organización del material se constituyó en la busca realizada en mayo de 2013, siendo encontradas 1059 páginas que mencionaban atención domiciliaria en el sitio Jus Brasil, siendo encontradas 1059 páginas que mencionaban la atención domiciliaria. El material seleccionado a partir de la lectura, que buscaba identificar la relación del documento con el tema, fue organizado en pastas identificadas por el año de publicación. En la segunda etapa, con lectura profundada, extractos que habían de tener poder para hacer circular determinadas verdades fueron organizados en planilla electrónica, con informaciones sobre la referencia del documento, extracto, quién hablaba, y procedimientos de limitación. La tercera etapa consistió en la lectura de la planilla para identificación de las relaciones de poder y saber. En la cuarta etapa, las unidades analíticas fueron siendo construidas, y para el análisis documental se utilizó algunas herramientas de Michel Foucault, como forma de martillar el pensamiento, como: poder, gobernamiento, biopolítica, saber, discurso, norma y dispositivo. Fueron formadas cuatro unidades analíticas: vigilancia del enfermo en domicilio: tecnología disciplinar; Asistencia medico domiciliaria y la población operaria: el nacimiento de la biopolitica; salud para todos: una tecnología reguladora de la vida; Mejor en Casa: dispositivo de seguranza. La primera unidad trata de la vigilancia del enfermo en el domicilio. Teniendo en vista la incidencia de la tuberculosis, fue organizado un servicio de enfermerías visitadoras que producían saberes registrados en informes acerca de las personas y sus molestias en aquel periodo. La segunda, acerca del Servicio de Asistencia Medico-Domiciliaria, que tuve como condiciones de posibilidad las movilizaciones de los operarios y la organización de los sindicatos a partir de la segunda década del siglo XX. Tal medida, a partir de la medicalización del cuerpo del operario, se constituyó en una estrategia de controle del absentismo. La tercera aborda la visita domiciliaria en el Sistema Único de Salud, como estrategia de la biopolitica, que tuve como condiciones de posibilidad las peleas contra un modelo oneroso de salud, centrado en el hospital e en la tecnología; las peleas contra un modelo de salud excluyente que incluía a penas los contribuyentes de la previdencia social; los ideales de un sistema público de salud, democrático, con participación de todos, en oposición al que la dictadura militar había proporcionado. La atención domiciliaria como dispositivo de seguridad, a partir de los años 2000, tuve como condiciones de posibilidad las molestias crónico-degenerativas debido al aumento de la expectativa de vida; la “crisis” en el hospital, que pretende liberar camas para la alta tecnología, prestando atendimiento al paciente en casa como lugar más seguro y mejor para el paciente, que quedase en su casa, próximo de la familia, lejos del risco de infección hospitalaria. Al pasar de este estudio genealógico, presento las discontinuidades y distintas configuraciones que la atención domiciliaria presentó en Brasil, apuntando que la prioridad de estas políticas no fueran las personas, pero la Economía.