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[email protected] Universidade Federal Fluminense Brasil Veronese, Andréa Márian; Leidens Corrêa de Oliveira, Dora Lúcia; Nast, Karoline CHARACTERIZATION OF DEMAND RELEVANT TO SAMU PORTO ALEGRE DESCRIPTIVE STUDY Online Brazilian Journal of Nursing, vol. 11, núm. 1, 2012, pp. 159-170 Universidade Federal Fluminense Rio de Janeiro, Brasil Available in: http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=361441676015 How to cite Complete issue Scientific Information System More information about this article Network of Scientific Journals from Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain and Portugal Journal's homepage in redalyc.org Non-profit academic project, developed under the open access initiative http://www.objnursing.uff.br/index.php/nursing/article/view/ 3568 Received: 08/16/2011 Approved: 04/09/2012 CHARACTERIZATION OF DEMAND NOT RELEVANT TO SAMU PORTO ALEGRE: DESCRIPTIVE STUDY Andréa Márian Veronese 1, Dora Lúcia Leidens Corrêa de Oliveira 2, Karoline Nast 3 1 SAMU Porto Alegre; 2, 3 Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul ABSTRACT In 2009, the demand not pertinent (DNP) to the Mobile Emergency Care (SAMU ) Service in Porto Alegre represented 36% (26,233) of calls directed to 192. This irrelevance is established when the case does not configure itself, to the medical regulator, as life-threatening situation, being Senhora Renata Jabour Saraiva unnecessary, therefore, sending ambulances to attend. Aimed http ://www.objnursing.uff.br/ to present the characterization the DNP by Managements
[email protected]. (GER) of the Municipal Health Secretary , of the year mentioned br before . The study was quantitative and analyzed variables Service Mobile Emergency Care were: age, sex, time span, weekday , month, type of rescue and relief subtype.