Mission and effectiveness of Outdoor Clinics (Consultórios na Rua): an experience of consensus production

ABSTRACT This is an experience report about a Workshop carried out by professionals working in Outdoor Clinics ('Consultórios na Rua') in Rio de Janeiro, including the presentation of day-to-day work, discussion about the effectiveness of the offered health care and construction of consensus through the Delphi Technic. The Workshop concluded that the Outdoor Clinic is a facilitator of the arrival of users in Primary Care, that use of harm reduction is a standard practice in all services of this kind, and that there is a certain degree of integration of the Outdoor Clinics with health, mental health and the intersector, and this integration, even problematic, is essential to the work.