Prazo de custódia dos prontuários odontológicos: um estudo de caso no curso de odontologia da Universidade Federal de Santa Maria

Abstract

The quickly and efficient access to health information is essential for the society, when working with dental records it became a great challenge, because there are few studies exploring management, access and storage of such documents. Considering that, this research aim evaluates how the dental records from the dentistry course of the Federal University of Santa Maria are being processed. To reach the aim, it was developed a biographical research and a review of current law focused on the standards and guidelines from the Nacional Council of Odontology (CFO), the National Council of Medicine (CFM), the National Council of Archivology (CONARQ), beyond the Dental Ethics Code and the Information Access Law. This is a exploratory research, because further than the bibliographic survey, it was applied an structured questionnaire to the undergraduate students of the dentistry course, therefore it feature a quali-quantitative research, which it is possible to analyze all the collected data by the presented tables. It could be saw that the undergraduate students consider the patient records extremely important, however the packing station, the classification method and time of storage are subjects that make them feel insecure. This shows the need for a strict contact between the archivology and the dentistry, to improve the management, conservation and access of the documents in Health Institutions, mainly the clinical record.