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      Dados para a saúde: impacto na melhoria da qualidade da informação sobre causas de óbito no Brasil Translated title: Data for health: impact on improving the quality of cause-of-death information in Brazil

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          RESUMO Introdução: Conhecer o número de óbitos e suas causas se constitui em informação de relevância para gestores de saúde pública. Entretanto, muitas vezes a causa do óbito é classificada com códigos pouco úteis para as análises de mortalidade, denominados códigos garbage (CG). Objetivo: Descrever e avaliar o impacto da investigação da causa básica de morte mal classificada no atestado de óbito em 2017. Métodos: Com base em protocolo padronizado, foram pesquisadas mortes com CG de 60 municípios que foram foco da intervenção, principalmente em prontuários hospitalares e serviços de autopsia. No nível estadual de gestão do Sistema de Informação de Mortalidade também foram desenvolvidas ações para melhoria da classificação da causa do óbito, com consequente adesão da maioria dos demais municípios (n = 4.022), o que permitiu comparações com os resultados da investigação de CG nas 60 cidades. Resultados: No país, de 108.826 CG investigadas em 2017, 48% foram reclassificadas para causas específicas. Já nos 60 municípios selecionados, 58% dos 35.366 óbitos por CG pesquisados foram reclassificados. A proporção de óbitos por CG declinou em 11% no país e 17% nos municípios em que houve intervenção. Discussão: Este é o primeiro estudo que investigou CG em registros médicos de mais de 100 mil mortes. A pesquisa possibilitou reclassificar para causas básicas específicas cerca de metade dos óbitos por CG investigados. As 60 cidades que foram alvo da intervenção tiveram melhor resultado que as demais cidades. Conclusão: A intervenção mostrou ser uma iniciativa adequada para a melhoria da qualidade da informação sobre causa de morte e deve ser estimulada.

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          ABSTRACT Introduction: Knowing the number of deaths and their causes is relevant information for public health managers. However, the cause of death is often classified with codes that are not useful for mortality analysis, called garbage codes (GC). Objective: To describe and evaluate the impact of investigation of the underlying cause of poorly classified deaths on death certificates in 2017. Methods: Based on a standardized protocol, GC deaths from 60 municipalities were investigated, mainly in hospital records and autopsy services. Managers at the state level of the Mortality Information System also developed procedures to improve the classification of causes of death, with the consequent adherence of other municipalities (n = 4022). This made it possible to compare the results of GC research between these two groups of municipalities. Results: In the country, among the 108,826 GC investigated in 2017, 48% were reclassified to specific causes. In the 60 focus municipalities, 58% of the 35,366 investigated deaths from GC were reclassified. After the intervention, the proportion of deaths classified as GC decreased by 11% in the country and 17% in the municipalities. Discussion: The research in hospital records enabled almost half of the deaths from GC investigated to be reclassified. This is the first study to investigate GC in hospital records of more than 100,000 deaths. The 60 cities targeted by the intervention had better results than the other cities. Conclusion: The intervention proved to be an appropriate initiative to improve the quality of information on cause of death and should be encouraged.

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          Algorithms for enhancing public health utility of national causes-of-death data

          Background Coverage and quality of cause-of-death (CoD) data varies across countries and time. Valid, reliable, and comparable assessments of trends in causes of death from even the best systems are limited by three problems: a) changes in the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD) over time; b) the use of tabulation lists where substantial detail on causes of death is lost; and c) many deaths assigned to causes that cannot or should not be considered underlying causes of death, often called garbage codes (GCs). The Global Burden of Disease Study and the World Health Organization have developed various methods to enhance comparability of CoD data. In this study, we attempt to build on these approaches to enhance the utility of national cause-of-death data for public health analysis. Methods Based on careful consideration of 4,434 country-years of CoD data from 145 countries from 1901 to 2008, encompassing 743 million deaths in ICD versions 1 to 10 as well as country-specific cause lists, we have developed a public health-oriented cause-of-death list. These 56 causes are organized hierarchically and encompass all deaths. Each cause has been mapped from ICD-6 to ICD-10 and, where possible, they have also been mapped to the International List of Causes of Death 1-5. We developed a typology of different classes of GCs. In each ICD revision, GCs have been identified. Target causes to which these GCs should be redistributed have been identified based on certification practice and/or pathophysiology. Proportionate redistribution, statistical models, and expert algorithms have been developed to redistribute GCs to target codes for each age-sex group. Results The fraction of all deaths assigned to GCs varies tremendously across countries and revisions of the ICD. In general, across all country-years of data available, GCs have declined from more than 43% in ICD-7 to 24% in ICD-10. In some regions, such as Australasia, GCs in 2005 are as low as 11%, while in some developing countries, such as Thailand, they are greater than 50%. Across different age groups, the composition of GCs varies tremendously - three classes of GCs steadily increase with age, but ambiguous codes within a particular disease chapter are also common for injuries at younger ages. The impact of redistribution is to change the number of deaths assigned to particular causes for a given age-sex group. These changes alter ranks across countries for any given year by a number of different causes, change time trends, and alter the rank order of causes within a country. Conclusions By mapping CoD through different ICD versions and redistributing GCs, we believe the public health utility of CoD data can be substantially enhanced, leading to an increased demand for higher quality CoD data from health sector decision-makers.
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                rbepid
                Revista Brasileira de Epidemiologia
                Rev. bras. epidemiol.
                Associação Brasileira de Saúde Coletiva (Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil )
                1415-790X
                1980-5497
                2019
                : 22
                : suppl 3
                : e19005.supl.3
                Affiliations
                [2] Belo Horizonte Minas Gerais orgnameUniversidade Federal de Minas Gerais orgdiv1Programa de Pós-graduação em Saúde Pública Brazil
                [4] New York NY orgnameVital Strategies Estados Unidos
                [1] São Paulo São Paulo orgnameUniversidade de São Paulo orgdiv1Instituto de Estudos Avançados Brazil
                [5] Brasília DF orgnameOrganização Mundial da Saúde orgdiv1Organização Pan-Americana da Saúde Brasil
                [6] Belo Horizonte Minas Gerais orgnameUniversidade Federal de Minas Gerais orgdiv1Faculdade de Medicina orgdiv2Núcleo de Educação em Saúde Coletiva Brazil
                [3] Belo Horizonte Minas Gerais orgnameUniversidade Federal de Minas Gerais orgdiv1Grupo de Pesquisas em Epidemiologia e Avaliação em Saúde Brazil
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                S1415-790X2019000400403
                10.1590/1980-549720190005.supl.3
                31800857
                ac0ee926-6d30-4cb5-b4a2-3febed92d640

                This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

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                : 14 June 2019
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                Mortalidade,Brazil,Cause of death,Mortality registries,Mortality,Brasil,Causas de morte,Registros de mortalidade

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