Sílvia Lopes

Assistant Professor of the Health Systems’ Policies and Management Department, member of Public Health Research Center .

Head of Pedagogic Council and member of Scientific Council.

PhD in Public Health from ENSP-NOVA, post-graduation in Hospital Administration from ENSP-NOVA and degree in Economics from Faculdade de Economia da Universidade de Coimbra.

Research interests include hospital care utilization, risk adjustment, hospital outcomes evaluation, end-of-life hospital care, and economic evaluation.

Pedagogic Coordination:

• Patient Classification Systems (CMGS)
• Hospital Patient Classification Systems (CEAH)

Teaching Participation:

• Public Health Seminar II (PDSP)
• Health Policy and Management (CMSP)
• Health Services Organization and Management (CESP)
• Health Policy and Health Systems (CESP)

Teresa Magalhães | Estudo de fatores preditivos das diferenças nos resultados de duração de internamento e de mortalidade em doentes com enfarte agudo do miocárdio. | PhD in Public Health | ENSP-NOVA, 2016. | Supervision with Prof. João Gomes.

Vera Resende | Risco de infecção associada a artroplastias da anca e joelho. | PhD in Public Health | ENSP-NOVA. | Supervision with Prof. João Espregueira-Mendes (in progress).

Nuno Simões | Utilização de recursos nos cuidados hospitalares e continuados por pessoas adultas no seu último ano de vida e custos associados. | PhD in Public Health | ENSP-NOVA. | Supervision with Prof. Manuel Luís Capelas (in progress).

Pedro Tomás e Silva | Bioterrorismo – Desenvolvimento de um modelo de atuação das instituições de Saúde Pública na gestão das situações de catástrofe em Portugal. | PhD in Public Health | ENSP-NOVA. | Supervision with Prof. Carlos Penha Gonçalves (in progress).

Luís Campos | Estudo da multimorbilidade dos doentes internados nos serviços de Medicina dos hospitais do Serviço Nacional de Saúde em Portugal. | PhD in Medicine | NMS-NOVA | Supervision with Prof. Miguel Xavier, Prof. Pedro Pita Barros e Prof. Paulo Nogueira (in progress).

Participation in research projects, mostly in the subject of hospital performance evaluation, financed by several institutions (Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos, hospitals, private companies). Coordination of the cost-benefit analysis of building a new hospital.

Atilano Carvalho P, Monteiro A, Almeida B, Correia FH, Resende V, Nunes C, Lopes S. [The Epidemiological Profile of the Isolation of 'Problem' Microorganisms]. Acta Med Port. 2019 Sep 2;32(9):600-605.

Lacerda AF, Oliveira G, Cancelinha C, Lopes S. [Hospital Inpatient Use in Mainland Portugal by Children with Complex Chronic Conditions (2011 - 2015)]. Acta Med Port. 2019 Aug 1;32(7-8):488-498. doi: 10.20344/amp.10437. Epub 2019 Aug 1.

Resende VAC, Neto AC, Nunes C, Andrade R, Espregueira-Mendes J, Lopes S. Higher age, female gender, osteoarthritis and blood transfusion protect against periprosthetic joint infection in total hip or knee arthroplasties: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Knee Surg Sports Traumatol Arthrosc. 2018 Nov 9.

Santana R, Marques AP, Lopes S, Boto P, Telles JL, Félix S, Mestre R, Matos R, Moita B. [The Influence of Providers’ and Patients’ Characteristics on Resource Use in Long-Term Care Inpatient Units]. Port J Public Health 2017;35:114–125
Gomes B, Pinheiro MJ, Lopes S, Brito M, Sarmento VP, Ferreira PL, Barros H. Risk factors for hospital death in conditions needing palliative care: Nationwide population-based death certificate study. Palliat Med. 2017 Nov 1:269216317743961. doi: 10.1177/0269216317743961.

Lopes S, Fernandes ÓB, Marques AP, Moita B, Sarmento J, Santana R. Can Vertical Integration Reduce Hospital Readmissions? A Difference-in-Differences Approach. Med Care. 2017 May;55(5):506-513.

Magalhães T, Lopes S, Gomes J, Seixo F. The Predictive Factors on Extended Hospital Length of Stay in Patients with AMI: Laboratory and Administrative Data. J Med Syst. 2016 Jan;40(1):2.

ORCID: 0000-0002-6048-396X

• Coordination at NOVA NSPH of the Clinical Coding Course, Internal Audit of Clinical Coding Course and W-COD | Program of Workshops in Clinical Coding, in partnership with Central Administration of the Health System.
• Author of posters and communications in scientific national and international meetings.
• Scientific journals reviewer