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Abstract This is a cross-sectional study with a descriptive design and a quantitative analytical approach, carried out in a public teaching hospital, with data from medical records, taking into account the period from November 2017 to January 2018, in order to access the profile and the length of stay of users admitted to the adult emergency room. Descriptive statistical analysis was used to obtain absolute and relative frequency and, subsequently, the binary logistic regression model was performed, through crude analysis, which tested the independent variables and their association with the dependent variable, adopting the value of p<0.20, to carry out the adjusted analysis. 304 subjects were considered, mostly (63.5%) male, coming from pre-hospital care in the municipality, with a lower degree of priority of care and length of stay in the emergency room for more than 24 hours. The results demonstrate that subjects seen by the medical clinic who are referred by spontaneous demand are four times more likely to remain hospitalized for more than 24 hours in the service. The diagnoses attributed to the subjects did not fit into the conditions regarding Primary Care. There is a need to identify the weaknesses of the health care network and to adopt interventions to reduce the length of stay and the saturation of operational capacity.

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