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Analysis of the trend of hospitalizations for asthma in children and adolescent...
Magalhães,Larissa Silva; Policena,Gabriela Moreira; Carneiro,Viviane Santos Mendes; Costa,Lusmaia Damaceno Camargo; Costa,Maria Selma Neves daAbstract Objective To analyze the trend of hospitalizations for asthma in children and adolescents by region and age group in Brazil, from 2008 to 2017. Method This is a time-series study with secondary data regarding hospitalizations for asthma in children and adolescents, according to age, region, and gender. Descriptive statistics procedures were used with measures of central tendency to calculate the variat...
Subnotificação de óbitos por AIDS no Brasil: linkage dos registros hospitalares...
Carmo,Rondinelle Alves do; Policena,Gabriela Moreira; Alencar,Gizelton Pereira; França,Elisabeth Barboza; Bierrenbach,Ana LuizaResumo Este estudo investigou a subnotificação de óbitos por Síndrome da Imunodeficiência Adquirida (AIDS) no Brasil, utilizando o produto do pareamento entre o Sistema de Informação sobre Mortalidade (SIM) e o Sistema de Informação Hospitalar (SIH) para os anos de 2008 a 2012. A hipótese era de que houvesse óbitos registrados no SIM que deveriam ter a AIDS como causa básica da morte, mas que tinham causas mal ...
Trend of fall-related mortality among the elderly
Monteiro,Yara Cristina Martins; Vieira,Maria Aparecida da Silva; Vitorino,Priscila Valverde de Oliveira; Queiroz,Silvio José deABSTRACT Objective: To analyze the temporal trend of fall-related mortality in elderly in Brazil from 2008 to 2016. Method: Study of time series of rates of fall-related mortality according to CID-10 from 2008 to 2016. Data from the Mortality Information System on death registers of people ≥ 60 living in Brazil were used. The specific rates of fall-related mortality among the elderly were calculated through the...
Redistribution of heart failure deaths using two methods: linkage of hospital r...
Bierrenbach,Ana Luiza; Alencar,Gizelton Pereira; Martinez,Cátia; Souza,Maria de Fátima Marinho de; Policena,Gabriela Moreira; França,Elisabeth BarbozaHeart failure is considered a garbage code when assigned as the underlying cause of death. Reassigning garbage codes to plausible causes reduces bias and increases comparability of mortality data. Two redistribution methods were applied to Brazilian data, from 2008 to 2012, for decedents aged 55 years and older. In the multiple causes of death method, heart failure deaths were redistributed based on the proport...