Underreporting of tuberculosis cases from death surveillance

• Main Authors: Renata Olívia Gadelha Romero (Author), Cláudia Maria Cavalcanti Ribeiro (Author), Lenilde Duarte de Sá (Author), Tereza Cristina Scatena Villa (Author), Jordana de Almeida Nogueira (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Universidade Federal de Goias, 2016-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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The objective was to analyze underreporting of tuberculosis cases from the capture of deaths registered at the Mortality Information System (SIM) from 2007 to 2011. We conducted a retrospective study in a city at the Northeast region of Brazil using a non-probabilistic association technique between...