Análise do risco médico apresentado pelos pacientes observados na Clinica Dentária Universitária da Universidade Católica Portuguesa

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Abstract

Introduction: Increased life expectancy has been increasing over the years which imply an increase in the percentage of patients with disease and polymedicated. Faced with this reality, it is essential that the dentist adapt their practice to a population increasingly complex, making it necessary to evaluate the medical risk. The medical risk is characterized according to a rating scale of risk of a patient and is the first step to prevention of medical emergencies in the office. This system helps the dentist about the treatment plan, specific need of medical evaluation or the need for hospital care. The scale that gives us the medical risk is the ASA classification.Materials and methods: For this study were selected 1019 patients. The questionnaire EMRRH (European Medical Risk Related History) was filled by patients older than 18 years, observed during the period of February to July. The original questionnaire consists of 21 questions concerning the health of the patient, was translated and integrated into the Newsoft, developed by Imaginasoft, technology-based, which works in engineering and production of clinical software. The software automatically calculates the patient’s medical risk. With this questionnaire was possible to ascertain what the risk posed by the clinic patients through medication and pathologies referred by them.Results: In this study there was a positive correlation between the risk of each patient and increased age, female gender and medication made by patients.Conclusion: In the present study it was possible to find out medical risk presented by the patients of the clinic, despite some skewing in some answers.

Date of Award	2011
Original language	Portuguese
Awarding Institution	Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Supervisor	Jorge Galvão Martins Leitão (Supervisor), José María Suárez Quintanilla (Co-Supervisor) & Helder José Martins Esteves (Co-Supervisor)