Núcleo hospitalar de epidemiologia: Análise descritiva dos dados do HCU-UFU.

Abstract

Introduction: The health data are important because it is possible to visualize standards of a health issue and illness in a region using them. Thus, this paper aims to evaluate the production of that information in the Hospital Epidemiology's Center of the Clinical Hospital of the Federal University of Uberlândia - MG, between January and December of 2017. Methodology: The methodology used here concerns to a retrospective, exploratory and descriptive study of the production of health data (investigation and notification), based on the database of the Center. The information were analyzed by the type, gender, month’s frequency and origin. To reach the results, 31071 cases were investigated, in which 2052 were notified, corresponding to 35 diseases or communicated harms (suspected and confirmed) in the hospital. Over 58,8% of the notifications are male individuals, 6 harms and diseases corresponded to 77,3% of the notifications and only 6,6% of the investigated converted to a notification. Discussion: So, this Center's sensibility of investigation and notification is superior to other Centers in Brazil, representing a model in identification and notification fo diseases and harms. Conclusion: This way, the sensibility of investigation (31.071 cases) and notification (2052 cases) are excellent, comparing to other Centers in Brazil. Therefore, it is necessary to frequently evaluate data produced by the Center, so that is possible to identify prevailing and incident diseases and harms over the year, stimulating an action plan and/or creating health politics to solve these diseases and harms to the year after.