Analyze the factors related to cases of tuberculosis (TB) recurrence in reports of the Epidemiological Surveillance Group XXIX/São José do Rio Preto/SP. This is a case-control study that analyzes pulmonary TB reports in the period between 1996 and 2014. Cases were reports of “Recurrence" and control: reports classified as "New" case and with "Healed" outcome. Odds ratio and multivariate analysis with 95% confid...
Objetivo: estimar o risco de mortalidade associado aos níveis glicêmicos em pacientes com septicemia em uma Unidade de Terapia Intensiva. Métodos: estudo de coorte retrospectivo com 263 pacientes com septicemia internados em uma unidade de terapia intensiva, utilizando dados do sistema de gestão hospitalar. Resultados: houve maior frequência de pacientes na faixa etária de 14 a 59 anos (52,1%), sexo masculino (...
Objective: to estimate the mortality risk associated with blood sugar levels in patients with septicemia in an Intensive Care Unit. Methods: this is a retrospective cohort study, performed with 263 patients with septicemia admitted to an intensive care unit, using the hospital management system data. Results: there was a higher frequency of patients aged from 14 to 59 years old (52.1%), male (55.9%), white (85....
Objective: to estimate the mortality risk associated with blood sugar levels in patients with septicemia in an Intensive Care Unit. Methods: this is a retrospective cohort study, performed with 263 patients with septicemia admitted to an intensive care unit, using the hospital management system data. Results: there was a higher frequency of patients aged from 14 to 59 years old (52.1%), male (55.9%), white (85....
A quantitative study which interviewed 160 professionals from Basic Health Units, Family Health and Emergency Services. The objective was to evaluate the structure of services that act as an entryway for diagnosing tuberculosis. We observed a prevalence of female professionals with superior median time of work in the Basic Units. Emergency Services received the highest evaluation regarding working hours and the...
This study evaluated the performance of health care services implementing TB control actions in relation to the establishment of bonds between health professionals and patients in São José do Rio Preto, SP, Brazil from the perspective of patients, health professionals, and managers. A total of 108 patients, 37 health professionals and 15 managers were interviewed through a questionnaire containing 10 indicators...
O objetivo foi analisar os indicadores epidemiológicos da coinfecção tuberculose e o vírus da imunodeficiência humana (TB/HIV) no município de São José do Rio Preto, São Paulo, Brasil, no período de 1998 a 2006. Os dados dos casos novos de TB, que iniciaram o tratamento entre janeiro de 1998 a dezembro de 2006, foram coletados do Sistema de Notificação da TB (EPI-TB). Foram notificados 306 casos. O coeficiente ...
This study aims to review plans for tuberculosis control through the analysis of measures for tuberculosis contact tracing in Brazil from 1984 to 2004. This article presents a literature review on tuberculosis control published in manuals of the Ministry of Health and the State Department of Health of Sao Paulo, and in Medline and Lilacs databases. There was a gap in the standardization of control measures in t...
This study aimed to evaluate the epidemiological status of Tuberculosis regarding to the socioeconomic characteristics of São José do Rio Preto between 1998 and 2004. Indexes estimated for 432 urban census tracts from the demographic census of 2000, sorted systematically according to the values of socioeconomic factors and grouped into quartiles were taken into account. The socioeconomic characterization was ou...