Activities registered by family health professionals in the primary care information system

Abstract

This descriptive study analyzed the activities registered in the Primary Care Information System, by family health professionals, in Minas Gerais. Data were obtained from the Unified Health System’s IT Department. A descriptive analysis of the information was performed, by type of activity and professional category, using the statistical software SPSS® 17.0. A total of 635,788,580 activities were registered, with 81.5% of an individual nature. Collective activities totaled 10.2% of the entries. Group care and meetings of community agents with the population totaled 1.1% and home visits, 7.6% of the entries. Physicians and nurses are responsible for 67.6% of the entries. In conclusion, the activities registered are primarily individual in nature, which may reflect the system’s actual design, which prioritizes collecting individual activities and those focused on procedures, and reinforces this same logic in the dissemination of information. doi: 10.5216/ree.v16i4.22535.

Keywords

• Sistemas de Informação
• Atenção Primária à Saúde
• Saúde da Família