OBJECTIVE:To propose a tuberculosis-related death surveillance strategy based on the Brazilian Mortality Information System. METHODS:Data on 55 tuberculosis-related deaths, which occurred in two large hospitals in Rio de Janeiro, Southeastern Brazil, between September 2005 and August 2006, were obtained from the SIM. These cases were searched and compared with cases in the National Notifi cation System (Sinan). The increment in the number of notifi cations and completeness of data were evaluated, as well as entry type and outcome in Sinan. RESULTS:Of the 55 deaths, 28 were registered in Sinan. Comparison between systems allowed for the following corrections: 27 new cases were notifi ed, 14 new notifi cations performed by the hospitals where death occurred and ten outcomes corrected. This represented an increment of 41/144 (28%) notifi cations by these two hospitals in 2006. Nine cases, previously classifi ed as unconfi rmed tuberculosis were reclassifi ed as bacteriologically confi rmed, and another fi ve cases were reclassifi ed from tuberculosis to AIDS as the primary cause of death. CONCLUSIONS:The proposed surveillance system for tuberculosis-related death was useful to increase data completeness, decrease under-notifi cation and cases with unknown outcome, to evaluate epidemiological surveillance and death certifi cate quality and to trace previously unidentifi ed contacts.
RESUMO:No âmbito de uma investigação sobre os determinantes de mortalidade infantil na região metropolitana do Rio de Janeiro, RJ (Brasil) durante um ano, foram estudadas e comparadas as declarações de óbito com as informações disponíveis nos prontuários e boletins hospitalares, de uma amostra de crianças. Objetivou-se avaliar a qualidade do preenchimento dessas declarações para alertar os profissionais de saúde para sua utilização como documento gerador de dados para elaboração e avaliação de programas de saúde e não apenas como exigência legal para o sepultamento. Apenas 52,3% das declarações mantiveram a mesma causa básica após consulta ao prontuário. A necrópsia foi realizada em apenas 42,8% dos óbitos neonatais e 71,5% dos pós-neonatais, ocorridos fora do ambiente hospitalar. Foram avaliados: idade e grau de instrução da mãe, intervalo de tempo e exame complementar, peso ao nascer e necrópsia, cujo grau de preenchimento das declarações ficou muito aquém do necessário, evidenciando as limitações das estatísticas oficiais de mortalidade que se baseiam nessas informações.
Objective: : to describe improvement of the quality of data on the underlying cause of death from external causes, after performing Health, Public Security and Press sector database linkage in the State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2014. Methods: deterministic data linkage on deaths from external causes of undetermined intent and deaths from undetermined natural causes held on the Mortality Information System (SIM), Forensic Institute, Civil Police, Urgent Mobile Care Service (SAMU) and press databases. Results: of the 13,916 deaths from external causes, deaths from causes of undetermined intent were reduced from 5,836 (41.9%) to 958 (6.9%); while 222 (10.7%) of the 2,069 deaths from undetermined natural causes were reclassified to external causes; there was an increase in mortality due to traffic accidents (93.0%), assault (71.6%), legal intervention (744.7%), intentional self-harm (112%) and other accidents (29.9%). Conclusion: there was an improvement in the quality of the information by type of underlying cause of death from external causes, using a strategy that can be reproduced by other services.
OBJETIVO:Analisar a mortalidade por diabetes mellitus em idosos e a subenumeração do diabetes como causa do óbito de acordo com estatísticas baseadas unicamente em causa básica de óbito. MÉTODOS:Foram revisadas todas as 2.974 declarações de óbito ocorridas em 1994 de idosos residentes em um núcleo habitacional localizado na cidade do Rio de Janeiro, RJ. Destas, foram estudados 291 óbitos, tendo o diabetes mellitus como causa básica (150) e associada (141). A proporção de óbitos em que a diabetes aparece como causa básica em relação ao total de óbitos por diabetes foi calculada de forma global e segundo sexo e faixa etária. RESULTADOS:Dos 291 óbitos estudados, 138 (47,4%) ocorreram em homens, e 153, em mulheres (52,6%). As taxas de mortalidade apresentaram crescimento contínuo com o avançar da idade, sendo superiores no sexo masculino, embora a diferença entre sexos tenha sido menor para a análise baseada unicamente na causa básica. Observou-se proporção elevada de óbitos domiciliares (22%). A proporção de óbitos por diabetes como causa básica foi de 51,5%, sendo maior nas mulheres do que nos homens. CONCLUSÕES:A análise das estatísticas de mortalidade baseadas unicamente na causa básica do óbito pode levar a perfis distorcidos, em função da subenumeração não ocorrer aleatoriamente. Estudos adicionais em coortes de idosos brasileiros diabéticos são necessários para permitir uma avaliação mais acurada da mortalidade nesse grupo.
The aim of this cross-sectional hospital-based study of 7,845 pregnancies was to analyze deaths of women hospitalized for childbirth and abortion, and fetal and neonatal deaths, in public hospitals in the cities of São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Niteroi (RJ), Brazil, in 2011. Outcomes of the pregnancies were: one maternal death, 498 abortions, 65 fetal deaths, 44 neonatal deaths and 7,291 infant survivors. Data were collected through interviews, medical records and the women's pregnancy records, and from the Mortality Information System (SIM). The study population was described and kappa coefficients of causes of death (from the SIM, and certified by research) and mortality health indicators were estimated. The maternal mortality ratio was 13.6 per 100,000 live births (LB), the fetal death rate was 8.8‰ births and the neonatal mortality rate was 6.0‰ LB. The drug most used to induce abortion was Misoprostol. The main causes of fetal and neonatal deaths were respiratory disorders and maternal factors. Congenital syphilis, diabetes and fetal death of unspecified cause were under-reported in the SIM. Kappa coefficients by chapter were 0.70 (neonatal deaths) and 0.54 (stillbirths). Good quality care in reproductive planning, prenatal care, during labor and at birth will result in prevention of deaths.
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