Public hospitalizations for stroke in Brazil from 2009 to 2016.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Stroke is the third major cause of death in the world and the second in Brazil. The purpose of this work was to assess the stroke-related hospitalization, in-hospital mortality, and case fatality rates under the Brazilian Unified Health System (SUS) from 2009 to 2016.

Methods

We evaluated the hospital admissions for stroke and their associated outcomes using data from the Hospital Information available at the Informatics Department of SUS. We selected hospitalization registries according to stroke diagnosis codes from the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD-10). We identified the association of age and sex with patient death through multiple logistic regression and calculated the rates of hospitalization, mortality

SUBMITTER: Dantas LF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6424448 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature