Background:

the quality of the hospital pharmaceutical service is fundamental in health care, because it guarantees an aspect as important as the adequate distribution of medicines. This should be equivalent in public hospitals in any city and within the same country, but, unfortunately, it is influenced by various factors.

Objective:

to evaluate the Peruvian patients’ perception of the quality in hospital pharmaceutical services.

Methods:

descriptive and comparative study, carried out with the participation of 286 patients affiliated to the Comprehensive Health Insurance of two public hospitals in a city of Peru. A valid and reliable questionnaire was applied, depending on the context of the population. The comparison analysis was performed using the Mann - Whitney U nonparametric test, considering 5% significance.

Results:

the quality of the pharmaceutical service provided was more frequently perceived as high (51.5%); and on average (51.3%), for the hospitals under study, respectively. In the analysis of the quality of the pharmaceutical service and its dimensions, the Mann-Whitneye U test revealed a significant difference between tangible elements, empathy, accessibility and opportunity (p = 0.000) for each hospital evaluated.

Conclusion:

according to the perception of the patients, the quality of the pharmaceutical service offered to the members of the Comprehensive Health Insurance, showed differences in the two public hospitals analyzed.

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