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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Autor(a) principal: França,Elisabeth Barboza
Data de Publicação: 2014
Outros Autores: 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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Idioma: eng
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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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spelling 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
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Investigation of ill-defined causes of death: assessment of a program's performance in a State from the Northeastern region of Brazil
title Investigation of ill-defined causes of death: assessment of a program's performance in a State from the Northeastern region of Brazil
spellingShingle 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
title_short Investigation of ill-defined causes of death: assessment of a program's performance in a State from the Northeastern region of Brazil
title_full Investigation of ill-defined causes of death: assessment of a program's performance in a State from the Northeastern region of Brazil
title_fullStr Investigation of ill-defined causes of death: assessment of a program's performance in a State from the Northeastern region of Brazil
title_full_unstemmed Investigation of ill-defined causes of death: assessment of a program's performance in a State from the Northeastern region of Brazil
title_sort Investigation of ill-defined causes of death: assessment of a program's performance in a State from the Northeastern region of Brazil
author França,Elisabeth Barboza
author_facet 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
author_role author
author2 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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author
author
author
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dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv 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
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Health evaluation
Information systems
Vital statistics
Mortality
Cause of death
Underregistration
topic Health evaluation
Information systems
Vital statistics
Mortality
Cause of death
Underregistration
description 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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