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- Title
Causes of death in a teaching hospital of the Brazilian western Amazon.
- Authors
de Faro, André Ricardo Maia da Costa; de Andrade, Andréia Moreira; de Faria Guimarães, Fernanda Paula; Belasco, Angélica Gonçalves Silva; Grandi, Joao Luiz; Barbosa, Dulce Aparecida
- Abstract
Objectives: To identify the epidemiological profile of patients who died, to characterize these deaths according to sociodemographic and clinical variables and to analyze the relation between the underlying cause and immediate cause of death in a teaching hospital. Methods: Quantitative cross-sectional study, with descriptive components, using as the main source of data the death certificates of the Information System of the Brazilian Unified Health System and the death declarations that occurred in 2016 in the institution studied. Results: Of the 634 deaths, most of the patients were male (56.9%), being 70% Afro-descendants; it was observed that almost half (48.8%) were 65 years of age or older; it affected 50.7% of men over 66 years and 53.8% of women under 66 years. The main immediate causes of death were associated with neoplasms (45.4%) and infectious and parasitic diseases (28.9%). Regarding death declarations, there is an underreporting in consequential causes 2 and 3, of 12.6% and 49.9%, respectively. Conclusion: The occurrence of infectious and parasitic diseases, the signs/symptoms and altered clinical/ laboratory tests had an important impact as immediate cause of the analyzed deaths. It is noteworthy that deaths from neoplasms remained constant in all categories (immediate cause, consequential cause 2, consequential cause 3, and underlying cause).
- Subjects
BRAZIL; CAUSES of death; ACADEMIC medical centers; COMMUNICABLE diseases; SCIENTIFIC observation; ACQUISITION of data methodology; CROSS-sectional method; RESEARCH methodology; QUANTITATIVE research; RETROSPECTIVE studies; HOSPITAL mortality; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; PARASITIC diseases; MEDICAL records; TUMORS; HOSPITAL information systems; DATA analysis software; DEATH certificates
- Publication
Acta Paulista de Enfermagem, 2021, Vol 34, Issue 4, p1
- ISSN
0103-2100
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.37689/actaape/2021AO002515