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Epidemiologia e Serviços de Saúde

Print version ISSN 1679-4974On-line version ISSN 2237-9622

Abstract

MENDONCA, Sarah de Souza  and  ALBUQUERQUE, Emídio Cavalcanti de. Profile of hospital admissions for primary care sensitive conditions in Pernambuco State, Brazil, 2008-2012. Epidemiol. Serv. Saúde [online]. 2014, vol.23, n.3, pp.463-474. ISSN 1679-4974.

OBJECTIVE: to describe the profile of Primary Care Sensitive Conditions Hospitalizations (PCSCH) in Pernambuco State, 2008-2012. METHODS: a descriptive study using data from the Health Service Hospital Information System, related to state residents. PCSCH proportion, rate and percentage variation were calculated by health region. RESULTS: 20.0% of hospital admissions in Pernambuco (n = 559,975) were PCSCH. A reduction occurred during the study period (from 13.01 to 12.11 admissions /1,000 inhabitants). Recife and Salgueiro health regions had the highest and lowest frequency of these events, 48.6% and 1.9%, respectively. The main groups of causes were infectious gastroenteritis and complications (19.7%), bacterial pneumonia (18.7%), asthma (7.9%), heart failure (7.7%) and kidney and urinary tract infection (7.2%). CONCLUSIONS: we found a heterogeneous reduction in PCSCH among Pernambuco's health regions, although there was potential for the decrease to continue.

Keywords : Primary Health Care; Hospitalization; Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation; Ecological Studies.

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