Publications by authors named "Carolina Novaes Carvalho"

Objective: to analyze records of hospitalizations due to mental and behavioral disorders before and after the beginning of the covid-19 pandemic in Brazil, from January 2008 to July 2021.

Methods: this was a descriptive ecological interrupted time series study, using secondary data retrieved from the Brazilian National Health System Hospital Information System; a time series analysis of hospitalizations was conducted based on a population-weighted Poisson regression model; relative risk (RR) and respective 95% confidence intervals (95%CI) were calculated.

Results: we identified 6,329,088 hospitalizations due to mental and behavioral disorders; hospitalization rates showed an 8% decrease (RR = 0.

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Objective: To analyze the underreporting of the tuberculosis (TB) and AIDS comorbidity.

Methods: Surveillance study using records from the Notifiable Diseases Information System - Tuberculosis and AIDS in Brazil from 2000 to 2005. Records of TB without information on the presence of Aids were considered to be underreporting of the comorbidity when paired off with AIDS records in which the year of diagnosis of AIDS was the same or previous to the year of reporting of TB, as well as records from the same patient whose previous records had this information.

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Objective: To evaluate the impact on tuberculosis (TB) incidence rates of removal of improper duplicate records from the notification system.

Methods: Data from the Sistema de Informação de Agravos de Notificação (Brazilian Information System for Tuberculosis Notification) from 2000 to 2004 were analyzed. Repeat records were identified through probabilistic record linkage and classified into six mutually exclusive categories and then kept, combined or removed from database.

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