The reliability of information records in the Health Information System: surveillance of intra-domiciliary leprosy contacts

• Main Authors: Clinton Fábio Gomes da Silva, Susilene Maria Tonelli Nardi, Vânia Del' Arco Paschoal
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Instituto de Comunicação e Informação Científica e Tecnológica em Saúde (Icict) da Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (Fiocruz) 2019-12-01
• Series: RECIIS
• Subjects: hanseníase; comunicação em saúde; sistema de informação em saúde; vigilância em saúde pública; epidemiologia.
• Online Access: https://www.reciis.icict.fiocruz.br/index.php/reciis/article/view/1666

The objective of this study was to compare intra-domiciliary contacts (IDCs) in the Health Information System (SIS) with records of people diagnosed with leprosy. This was a cross-sectional, retrospective, and quantitative study based on the physical information collected in medical records and the SIS records in 2015 and 2016, in a municipality in the countryside of the State of São Paulo. We used an instrument with variables related to IDCs such as gender, age, relationship, disease, BCG-ID vaccine, SIS records, and descriptive analysis. Out of the 81 IDCs from 40 diagnosed patients, 72 were evaluated, and 71 were included in the SIS. One IDC became ill after the end of treatment of the index case. The prevalent gender among IDCs was female, young adults, and children. A difference of 12.4% as observed between the physical and SIS records; a difference of 11.1% was observed when correlating 81 records with the frequency of the 72 evaluated IDCs. It is concluded that the IDC and SIS records are in disagreement.