Hospitalisations and fatality due to respiratory diseases according to a national database in Brazil: a longitudinal study

Autor: Lucien Peroni Gualdi, Darllane Azevedo Lemos, Luiza Gabriela de Araújo Fonseca, Rencio Bento Florêncio, José Alexandre Barbosa de Almeida, Illia Nadinne Dantas Florentino Lima
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2024
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Zdroj: BMJ Open Respiratory Research, Vol 11, Iss 1 (2024)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2052-4439
DOI: 10.1136/bmjresp-2023-002103
Popis: Background Respiratory diseases (RDs) cause millions of hospitalisations and deaths worldwide, resulting in economic and social impacts. Strategies for health promotion and disease prevention based on the epidemiological profile of the population may reduce hospital costs.Aim To characterise hospitalisations and deaths due to RDs in Brazilian adults above 20 years old between 2008 and 2021.Methods This ecological study used secondary data of hospitalisations and deaths due to RDs from the Hospital Information System of the Brazilian Unified Health System between 2008 and 2021. Data were grouped according to region, age group and sex. The period was divided into first (2008–2011), second (2012–2015) and third (2016–2019) quadrennia and one biennium (2020–2021), and all data were analysed using the GraphPad Prism; statistical significance was set at p
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