The quality of official information on underlying causes of infant deaths was studied on the basis of data collected for a popullation-based study of the surveillance of infant mortality in the metropolitan region of Belo Horizonte, Brazil in 1989. The survey included the analysis of a sample of infant deaths carried out by comparing the underlying causes of death as coded on death certificates to those recorded by a group of doctors who abstracted information from hospital records. We verified that 11.7% of neonatal deaths did not have the underlying cause of death confirmed by the investigation (kappa=0.61), and neither did 44.0% of post-neonatal deaths (kappa=0.47). It is believed that this major disagreement among post-neonatal deaths i...
Neonatal mortality rates in Maringá, Paraná State, Brazil, in 1990 are characterized in terms of sev...
Analisar a tendência da mortalidade de crianças menores de cinco anos, residentes no Brasil e regiõe...
Study design: descriptive study. Objective: to describe the historical series of infant mortality in...
The main causes of neonatal mortality, the reliability of the underlying cause of death registered i...
Analisam-se as principais causas de morte neonatal, a confiabilidade da causa básica constante nas d...
An evaluation was undertaken, during the assessment of the quality of the filling up of death certif...
An analysis of child mortality by causes was made on the basis of classification by multiple causes ...
Further to a research project into the accuracy of death given on the causes of death given on the d...
It was made an analysis of the medical certifications of death; it was analysed the fulfilling of th...
Infant mortality rates in Latin America are high. A thorough study of its causes and different aspec...
Analisar a tendência da mortalidade de crianças menores de 5 anos, residentes na Região Sudeste e Un...
INTRODUÇÃO: A mortalidade infantil em Presidente Prudente, SP (Brasil), foi estudada no período de 1...
All post-perinatal infant deaths occurring within a one-year period in 10 cities in the State of Rio...
The trends and composition of mortality rates in children under five years of age, as well as the ne...
The study of 1124 deaths of under 5 years children residing in urban areas in the region of Ribeirão...
Neonatal mortality rates in Maringá, Paraná State, Brazil, in 1990 are characterized in terms of sev...
Analisar a tendência da mortalidade de crianças menores de cinco anos, residentes no Brasil e regiõe...
Study design: descriptive study. Objective: to describe the historical series of infant mortality in...
The main causes of neonatal mortality, the reliability of the underlying cause of death registered i...
Analisam-se as principais causas de morte neonatal, a confiabilidade da causa básica constante nas d...
An evaluation was undertaken, during the assessment of the quality of the filling up of death certif...
An analysis of child mortality by causes was made on the basis of classification by multiple causes ...
Further to a research project into the accuracy of death given on the causes of death given on the d...
It was made an analysis of the medical certifications of death; it was analysed the fulfilling of th...
Infant mortality rates in Latin America are high. A thorough study of its causes and different aspec...
Analisar a tendência da mortalidade de crianças menores de 5 anos, residentes na Região Sudeste e Un...
INTRODUÇÃO: A mortalidade infantil em Presidente Prudente, SP (Brasil), foi estudada no período de 1...
All post-perinatal infant deaths occurring within a one-year period in 10 cities in the State of Rio...
The trends and composition of mortality rates in children under five years of age, as well as the ne...
The study of 1124 deaths of under 5 years children residing in urban areas in the region of Ribeirão...
Neonatal mortality rates in Maringá, Paraná State, Brazil, in 1990 are characterized in terms of sev...
Analisar a tendência da mortalidade de crianças menores de cinco anos, residentes no Brasil e regiõe...
Study design: descriptive study. Objective: to describe the historical series of infant mortality in...