OBJECTIVE To analyze whether sociodemographic characteristics, consultations and care in special services are associated with scheduled infectious diseases appointments missed by people living with HIV. METHODS This cross-sectional and analytical study included 3,075 people living with HIV who had at least one scheduled appointment with an infectologist at a specialized health unit in 2007. A...

Since leptospirosis begins with a septicaemic stage, during which leptospirae may be isolated from the cerebrospinal fluid, the occurrence of lesions in the nervous system is not unexpected. Evidence of neurological abnormality can frequently be detected in the course of a typical attack of the disease, but it is usually insignificant compared with the involvement of other organs, and has littl...

A method is presented for evaluating the performance of a vehicle pose measurement system (e.g., GPS, inertial sensors, etc.). The method supports evaluations of the system on a vehicle moving at high speeds. An example is provided to illustrate the method.

This article aims to evaluate the reliability of the data available in the Information System for Live Birth (SINASC) in the city of Teresina, Piauí State, Brazil for the year of 2002. The proportion of data completeness was analyzed, and concordance between variables for data reported to SINASC and hospital records (SINASC-P) was estimated using the kappa index. This study demonstrated that va...

OBJECTIVE To present a descriptive analysis of patients diagnosed with multiple myeloma, correlating it with mortality. METHODS A retrospective study that analyzed consecutive patients diagnosed with multiple myeloma under follow-up at the Faculdade de Medicina do ABC from 2006 to 2010. RESULTS The median age was 58.5 years. Anemia was observed upon diagnosis in 87% of patients, hypercalcem...

The objective of this study was to compare different modeling strategies to identify individual and admissions characteristics associated with readmission to a general hospital. Routine data recorded in the Hospital Information System on all admissions to the Regional Public Hospital of Betim, Minas Gerais State, Brazil, from July 1996 to June 2000 were analyzed. Cox proportional hazards model ...

BACKGROUND Cataract surgery is the most common surgery performed on beneficiaries of Medicare, accounting for more than $3.4 billion in annual expenditures. The purpose of this study is to examine racial and geographic variations in cataract surgery rates and determine the association between the racial composition of the community population and the racial disparity in the likelihood of receiv...

OBJECTIVES This study evaluated the qualitative and quantitative performances of the newly developed information system which was implemented on November 4, 2011 at the National Health Insurance Corporation Ilsan Hospital. METHODS Registration waiting time and changes in the satisfaction scores for the key performance indicators (KPI) before and after the introduction of the system were compa...

OBJECTIVES To describe the profile of the victims of road accidents presenting physical sequelae, according to the criteria established by researchers and analyze the trends in hospitalization for this cause in Brazil, from 2000 to 2013. METHODS An ecological time-series study was performed using the data from the Hospital Information System of the National Health System (SUS). Trends in hosp...