Perfil clínico-epidemiológico dos pacientes atendidos na clínica escola de fisioterapia da unigoyazes

Abstract

INTRODUCTION:The epidemiological profile is the indicator of the health-disease process, in the observational scope of population development according to (SILVA et al, 2013). Pauletti et al (2017), adds that treatment at the Physiotherapy School Clinic

offers its patients a treatment that combines a good physical structure, respect, responsibility, ethics, humanization and various technologies, and also adds that epidemiology has as its main objective the identification and recording of patterns and incidence of occurrences linked to the health of a community, analyzing the main characteristics of the development of illnesses, helping to identify the most susceptible population groups and improving the quality of life for those with health problems. OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the clinical-epidemiological profile of patients treated at the Unigoyazes Physiotherapy School Clinic.. METHODOLOGY: This is a cross-sectional study through field research through analysis of medical records of patients seen in the last 5 years at the Physiotherapy School Clinic. RESULTS: Based on analyzes of the medical records of patients treated at the Unigoyazes physiotherapy school clinic, orthopedic pathologies were the most prevalent, totaling 72%. Rheumatological pathologies represented 4% in males and 8% in females. The third most common was neurological pathology, with 3% males and 4% females, lastly post-operative with 3% males and 4% females. FINAL CONSIDERATIONS: After analyzing the data collected from the medical records of patients treated at the Unigoyazes Physiotherapy School Clinic, it can be seen that the highest prevalence was in females and in the age group of 40 to 49 years. It also showed that the majority of cases treated are in the orthopedic area with a higher prevalence of comorbidities in hypertensive patients, followed by diabetic patients.