Validade das informações ocupação e causa básica em declarações de óbito de Botucatu, São Paulo

• Autor(a) principal: Cordeiro, Ricardo
• Data de Publicação: 1999
• Outros Autores: Olivencia Peñaloza, Eduardo Rommel, Cardoso, Chrystiano Fonseca, Cortez, Daniela Barros, Kakinami, Eric, Souza, Jacques José Gomes de, Souza, Maria Tereza de Moraes, Fernandes, Ricardo Augusto, Guercia, Rodrigo Fernando, Adoni, Tarso
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Cadernos de Saúde Pública
• Texto Completo: https://cadernos.ensp.fiocruz.br/ojs/index.php/csp/article/view/1207
• topic: Atestados de Óbito; Ocupações; Causa Básica de Morte; Epidemiologia

The aim of this paper was to evaluate the accuracy of data on death certificates for occupation and main cause of death. Measure of agreement was assessed comparing data from death certificates with those from both medical records and next-of-kin interviews, analyzing information for 552 residents of Botucatu, Southeast Brazil, who died in 1997. Kappa coefficients of 0.31 (95% C.I. 0.29-0.34) and 0.76 (95% C.I. 0.75-0.76) were obtained for data on occupation and main cause of death, coded by a Brazilian two-digit classification and the three-digit ICD-10 classification, respectively. One can conclude that, although quality of the main cause of death is acceptable for pilot studies, data on occupation taken only from death certificates is not accurate enough to be used in epidemiological research.