Abstract:Pediatric surgery receives great demand for referrals from primary care services in order to evaluate the need for surgical intervention. However access to this specialized evaluation and in intervention does not always occur at the appropriate time. This study aims to characterize the profile of pediatric patients electively operated in the western Paraná state region, between 2018 and 2020, and identify those who were lately referred to surgical evaluation. This is a descriptive, cross-sectional and retrospe… Show more
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