Completeness of occurrence cards of SAMU advanced support units

Abstract

Objective: to analyze the completeness of the attendance files of the Advanced Support Units of the SAMU Regional Metropolitano / PR. Method: documentary, retrospective, quantitative study, carried out with 385 notification forms from the mobile emergency care service. The collection took place between March and August 2020, with data from August 2018 to July 2019. The completeness of the occurrence records was measured by the proportion of fields filled. Results: the completeness of the data was excellent for 10 variables, these referring to the identification of the call and patient (100%), clinical (6.7%) and outcome (14.3%); very bad in the fields of demographic identification; predominantly bad and very bad for clinical variables. Conclusion: there is a failure to fill out the occurrence forms, regardless of the location of the call. It highlights the importance of developing mechanisms to establish complete completion, either through training or developments in new technologies for data collection.