title: [Concepts of a multidisciplinar team on runaway patients].
abstract: A qualitative study that aimed at learning the way an emergency care multidisciplinary team at a public university hospital conceives and deals with the problem of patients who run away from hospital was carried out. Data were collected using the focus groups technique, whose sample was constituted by ten individuals, approached by non-directive group dynamics. Three thematic classes resulted from content analysis: a certain ambivalence; emergency, a place of (lack of) control; fears and insecurities. The study indicates the chaotic situation encountered by emergency services and, in this context, when patients run away, the health care team is imminently subject to a triple judgment: social, legal and institutional.
authors.affiliation: Escola de Enfermagem, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS.
authors.forename: Sílvio Antônio
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Vieira
authors.forename: Clarice Maria
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Dall'agnol
mesh_terms: D004636:Emergency Service, Hospital; D006801:Humans; D010348:Patient Care Team; D010352:Patient Dropouts; D012419:Runaway Behavior