Abstract

MELIONE, Luís Paulo Rodrigues. Use of hospital information from the unified health system for epidemiological surveillance and assessment of outpatient services in the municipality of São José dos Campos - São Paulo. Inf. Epidemiol. Sus [online]. 2002, vol.11, n.4, pp.215-225. ISSN 0104-1673.  http://dx.doi.org/10.5123/S0104-16732002000400004.

The regular notification of hospital discharges for outpatient accompaniment is a routine difficult to implement in the health services. Many times there are lost opportunities for preventive actions that could avoid complications and sequele of diseases. The need of disaggregated information on hospital morbidity led to the development of a methodology that utilizes the Hospital Information System from the Unified Health System (SIH-SUS) as the source of epidemiological information, for the city of São José dos Campos, in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. The objective was to subsidize decentralized actions of epidemiological surveillance and evaluation of outpatient services. The territory delimitation of the municipal health system and the introduction of the tenth revision of the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (CID-10) were important conditions for the development of the methodology. Listings of monthly notification of hospital discharges were established in the health units. The database of SIH-SUS may also be used as a complementary source of epidemiological information, in addition to the traditional sources used for epidemiological surveillance and evaluation of health services.

Keywords : Information Systems; Epidemiological Surveillance; Evaluation of Health Services.

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