ABSTRACT OBJECTIVE To describe the frequency and characteristics of hospitalizations for/with adverse drug events in the Brazilian unified health system routine data. METHODS Nationwide retrospective study using data obtained from a period of ten years from the Brazil Hospital Information System (SIH-SUS), an administrative database that registers hospitalizations in the unified health system. We selected hospitalizations with primary and/or secondary diagnosis related to adverse drug events according to a list of validated International Classification Disease 10th edition (ICD-10) codes. These […]

OBJECTIVE: To identify, with the assistance of computational techniques, rules concerning the conditions of the physical environment for the classification of risk micro-areas. METHODS: Exploratory research carried out in Curitiba, Southern Brazil, in 2007. It was divided into three phases: the identification of attributes to classify a micro-area; the construction of a database; and the process of discovering knowledge in a database through the use of data mining. The set of attributes included the conditions of infrastructure; hydrography; soil; recreation […]