A importância do sistema de notificação de doenças e agravos em saúde: revisão integrativa

Abstract

An integrative review (IR) was carried out, consisting of six steps: problem identification (preparation of the guiding question, choice of descriptors and criteria for inclusion/exclusion of articles); search for articles in the literature; categorization of studies; sample evaluation; synthesis of the analyzed articles; interpretation of results. To guide this review, the following guiding question was formulated: "What is the importance of the Notification System for Disease and Health Problems in times of pandemic?" The search for published articles took place between June and August of 2020, used as Descriptors in Health Sciences notification of “disease/disease notification AND epidemiology/epidemiology”, “health information system/health information system AND notification/notification” , the research was carried out in the advanced search of the Virtual Health Library (VHL) and the Pubmed portal, considering articles published in the years 2010 to 2020, available in full, that answered the guiding question, with no cost of access and published in the language English, Portuguese and/or Spanish.