Análise do sistema de referência e contrarreferência da endodontia em um município da região metropolitana de Belo Horizonte MG

Abstract

The evaluation of health services may use both general service monitoring indicators and evaluation research, which aims at studying service performance and its enhancement through problem solving. The evaluation of secondary level oral health services in Brazil is incipient in evidence construction, hence after the creation of the CEO. This study aimed at analyzing the referral system between primary health care and the endodontics secondary level care from the CEO of the city of Contagem, Minas Gerais, searching for the enhancement of the existing referral protocol. Secondary data were collected from the city´s data systems as well as from service´s files, regarding all 512 patients who attended it between 2009 and 2014. Register flaws prevented the determination of mean waiting time before first appointment. Mean time between first appointment and treatment conclusion was 3.12 months. There was higher frequency of individuals from those city´s administrative regions with higher population and more availability of primary health care units. Similar proportions of single and non-single rooted teeth were treated. Great proportions of teeth reached CEO´s endodontics service without possible treatment. Data were generated to supply the renovation of the present service referral protocol.