Epidemiol Serv Saude
January 2019
Objective: to assess the coverage, completeness and reliability of data on live births in public maternity wards in São Paulo, Brazil.
Methods: data recorded in the Information System on Live Births (Sinasc) were compared with data collected in a field study (gold standard) during three months in 2011 in four maternity wards in hospital from the SUS network; kappa coefficient was calculated to assess agreement.
Results: 5,785 birth records were analyzed; Sinasc coverage was 99.