COVID-19 as the leading cause of hospital deaths in the Brazilian public health system in 2020

International Journal of Infectious Diseases

Mauro Niskier Sanchez¹  Layana Costa Alves²  Juan José Cortez-Escalante³  Everton Nunes da Silva⁴  Gustavo Saraiva Frio⁴  Leonor Maria Pacheco Santos⁴  Ivan Ricardo Zimmermann⁴  Fabrício Vieira Cavalcante⁴ 

[1] Collective Health Course, Faculty of Ceilândia, University of Brasília, Brasília, Brazil;Corresponding author. Departamento de Saúde Coletiva, Faculdade de Ciências da Saúde, Universidade de Brasília, Campus Darcy Ribeiro, Asa Norte, Brasília, DF, Brasil, 70910-900. Tel.: [phone].;Institute of Collective Health at the Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Brazil;Department of Collective Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Brasília, Brasília, Brazil;

关键词: COVID-19;    SARS-CoV-2l;    Hospital mortality;    Cause of death;    Unified health system;    Brazil;   

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来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

ABSTRACT: Objectives: To describe the profile of hospital deaths in Brazil according to cause of admission during the pre-pandemic (2019) and pandemic periods (2020).Methods: Descriptive study based on individual-level records of all hospital admissions with death outcomes reimbursed by the Brazilian National Health System in 2019 and 2020.Results: The number of hospital deaths increased by 16.7% in 2020 compared with 2019 (522,686 vs 609,755). Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) was associated with 19.5% (118,879) of all hospital deaths in 2020, surpassing diseases of the circulatory system (15.4%, 93,735) and diseases of the respiratory system (14.9%, 91,035).Conclusions: COVID-19 was the main cause of death in public hospitals in Brazil in 2020.

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