Análise transversal da casuística atendida no serviço de neurologia do Centro de Especialidades Médicas do Centro Universitário do Estado do Pará entre os períodos de 2012 a 2015

Abstract

Introduction: Neurological outpatient care is a reality of medical graduation, and aims at the diagnosis, guidance and resolubility therapy in Neurology, being part of the daily life of these patients with the most diverse diagnoses. Methodology: This study is characterized as observational, cross-sectional, exploratory of the series of patients seen at the Neurology outpatient clinic of the Centro de Especialidades Médicas do Cesupa (Cemec) of Centro Universitário do Estado do Pará (Cesupa). Data were collected from the medical records of outpatient consultations, and only those patients who had consultations in the period from 2012 to 2015 were included in the study. Objective: To carry out an exploratory survey of the sample of patients treated at the Neurology outpatient clinic of the Centro de Especialidades Médicas do Cesupa (CEMEC) of Centro Universitário do Estado do Pará (Cesupa). Results: The results show that there was a higher prevalence of patients who underwent few visits at the Neurology Outpatient Clinic. In addition, the most prevalent complaint was the symptom of headache, but the prevalence of patients with improvement of the neurological picture was also important. Conclusion: Finally, we have seen that the use of Artificial Intelligence methods can help reveal the prevalence of associations between symptoms and signs recorded in databases in need of data.