INTRODUCTION: The audit in the SUS, watches over for the effective, efficiency and effectiveness of the services that system integrate. In the physiotherapy services, the audit have been performed by professionals without the technician knowledge in the field and inexist specific protocols of audit in physiotherapy to the SUS, has represented important obstacle to the specificity of physiotherapy audit carried through. OBJECTIVE: This study it had as objective to propose a model of specific protocol of Physiotherapy Audit. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The present work this was an exploratory research, surveyed published in the databases LILACS, SciELO and Latin Science portal, and electronic documents of the Coffito, Health of Ministry and Portuguese Association of Physiotherapy between the years of 1991 to 2011. Respecting the information provided in articles and documents selected, the protocol constructed search to contemplate a broad and systematic audit on the most varied aspects of the physiotherapy services, in their normative dimensions, structural, procedural and results. RESULTS: It is expects that the constructed protocol can contribute to increase the efficiency an accuracy of the physiotherapy audit in SUS, so this is translated the improvement quality of services provided to the users.
Management; Audit; Unified Health System; Physiotherapy
