Impact of the pandemic on the demand for emergency services: A preliminary approach

Poor planning in the allocation of hospital resources can be devastating on a social level, causing excess mortality and comorbidities associated with its patients. Effective management where demand for health care is controlled essential, allowing decrease budget responding same quality celerity. The fact that study focuses single period, due to SARS-COV-2 pandemic, means conclusions drawn this will serve as an example model future situations. This uses time series methodology, instrument widely used studies scope, predict number daily urgencies regional hospital. research also inclusion explanatory variables already identified literature, namely average temperature, temperature range, rainfall, day week, month, holiday or non-holiday.