Investigation of ill-defined causes of death: assessment of a program's performance in a State from the Northeastern region of Brazil
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Resumo: | OBJECTIVE: The proportion of ill-defined causes of death (IDCD) was persistently high in some regions of Brazil in 2004. In 2005, the Brazilian government implemented a project in order to decrease this proportion, especially in higher priority states and municipalities. This study aimed to evaluate the performance of this project in Alagoas - a state from the Northeast region of Brazil. METHOD: We selected a probabilistic sample of 18 municipalities. For all IDCD identified in 2010, we collected the verbal autopsy (VA) questionnaires used for home investigation, and the Ministry of Health (MoH) form, which contains information about the final disease and cause of death taken from hospital records, autopsies, family health teams, and civil registry office records. The completion rate of the MoH form and VA was calculated using the number of deaths with specific causes assigned among investigated deaths. RESULTS: A total of 681 IDCD were recorded in 2010 in the sample, of which 26% had a MoH and/or VA3 forms completed. Although the majority of cases were attended by health professionals during the terminal disease, the completion rate was 45% using the MoH form and 80% when VA was performed. CONCLUSIONS: Our findings provide evidence that the training of the epidemiological surveillance teams in the investigation and certification of causes of death could contribute to improve the quality of mortality data. |
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Investigation of ill-defined causes of death: assessment of a program's performance in a State from the Northeastern region of BrazilHealth evaluationInformation systemsVital statisticsMortalityCause of deathUnderregistration OBJECTIVE: The proportion of ill-defined causes of death (IDCD) was persistently high in some regions of Brazil in 2004. In 2005, the Brazilian government implemented a project in order to decrease this proportion, especially in higher priority states and municipalities. This study aimed to evaluate the performance of this project in Alagoas - a state from the Northeast region of Brazil. METHOD: We selected a probabilistic sample of 18 municipalities. For all IDCD identified in 2010, we collected the verbal autopsy (VA) questionnaires used for home investigation, and the Ministry of Health (MoH) form, which contains information about the final disease and cause of death taken from hospital records, autopsies, family health teams, and civil registry office records. The completion rate of the MoH form and VA was calculated using the number of deaths with specific causes assigned among investigated deaths. RESULTS: A total of 681 IDCD were recorded in 2010 in the sample, of which 26% had a MoH and/or VA3 forms completed. Although the majority of cases were attended by health professionals during the terminal disease, the completion rate was 45% using the MoH form and 80% when VA was performed. CONCLUSIONS: Our findings provide evidence that the training of the epidemiological surveillance teams in the investigation and certification of causes of death could contribute to improve the quality of mortality data. Associação Brasileira de Saúde Coletiva2014-03-01info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersiontext/htmlhttp://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1415-790X2014000100119Revista Brasileira de Epidemiologia v.17 n.1 2014reponame:Revista brasileira de epidemiologia (Online)instname:Associação Brasileira de Saúde Coletiva (ABRASCO)instacron:ABRASCO10.1590/1415-790X201400010010ENGinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessFrança,Elisabeth BarbozaCunha,Carolina Cândida daVasconcelos,Ana Maria NogalesEscalante,Juan José CortezAbreu,Daisy Xavier deLima,Raquel Barbosa deMorais Neto,Otaliba Libânio deeng2015-01-12T00:00:00Zoai:scielo:S1415-790X2014000100119Revistahttp://www.scielo.br/rbepidhttps://old.scielo.br/oai/scielo-oai.php||revbrepi@usp.br1980-54971415-790Xopendoar:2015-01-12T00:00Revista brasileira de epidemiologia (Online) - Associação Brasileira de Saúde Coletiva (ABRASCO)false |
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Investigation of ill-defined causes of death: assessment of a program's performance in a State from the Northeastern region of Brazil |
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Investigation of ill-defined causes of death: assessment of a program's performance in a State from the Northeastern region of Brazil |
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Investigation of ill-defined causes of death: assessment of a program's performance in a State from the Northeastern region of Brazil França,Elisabeth Barboza Health evaluation Information systems Vital statistics Mortality Cause of death Underregistration |
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Investigation of ill-defined causes of death: assessment of a program's performance in a State from the Northeastern region of Brazil |
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Investigation of ill-defined causes of death: assessment of a program's performance in a State from the Northeastern region of Brazil |
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Investigation of ill-defined causes of death: assessment of a program's performance in a State from the Northeastern region of Brazil |
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Investigation of ill-defined causes of death: assessment of a program's performance in a State from the Northeastern region of Brazil |
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Investigation of ill-defined causes of death: assessment of a program's performance in a State from the Northeastern region of Brazil |
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França,Elisabeth Barboza |
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França,Elisabeth Barboza Cunha,Carolina Cândida da Vasconcelos,Ana Maria Nogales Escalante,Juan José Cortez Abreu,Daisy Xavier de Lima,Raquel Barbosa de Morais Neto,Otaliba Libânio de |
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Cunha,Carolina Cândida da Vasconcelos,Ana Maria Nogales Escalante,Juan José Cortez Abreu,Daisy Xavier de Lima,Raquel Barbosa de Morais Neto,Otaliba Libânio de |
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França,Elisabeth Barboza Cunha,Carolina Cândida da Vasconcelos,Ana Maria Nogales Escalante,Juan José Cortez Abreu,Daisy Xavier de Lima,Raquel Barbosa de Morais Neto,Otaliba Libânio de |
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Health evaluation Information systems Vital statistics Mortality Cause of death Underregistration |
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Health evaluation Information systems Vital statistics Mortality Cause of death Underregistration |
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OBJECTIVE: The proportion of ill-defined causes of death (IDCD) was persistently high in some regions of Brazil in 2004. In 2005, the Brazilian government implemented a project in order to decrease this proportion, especially in higher priority states and municipalities. This study aimed to evaluate the performance of this project in Alagoas - a state from the Northeast region of Brazil. METHOD: We selected a probabilistic sample of 18 municipalities. For all IDCD identified in 2010, we collected the verbal autopsy (VA) questionnaires used for home investigation, and the Ministry of Health (MoH) form, which contains information about the final disease and cause of death taken from hospital records, autopsies, family health teams, and civil registry office records. The completion rate of the MoH form and VA was calculated using the number of deaths with specific causes assigned among investigated deaths. RESULTS: A total of 681 IDCD were recorded in 2010 in the sample, of which 26% had a MoH and/or VA3 forms completed. Although the majority of cases were attended by health professionals during the terminal disease, the completion rate was 45% using the MoH form and 80% when VA was performed. CONCLUSIONS: Our findings provide evidence that the training of the epidemiological surveillance teams in the investigation and certification of causes of death could contribute to improve the quality of mortality data. |
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