Abstract
Background
Quality information is a necessary condition for the objective analysis of the health situation, for making evidence-based decisions and for the programming of public actions that aim at the development of good health conditions for the general population.
Objective
To evaluate the quality of the filling of compulsory notifications of violence in Brazil, with emphasis on the completeness of the data.
Method
Descriptive study with data from the National Disease Notification Information System (Sinan) for the period 2011 to 2014 was carried out. Percentages of incompleteness were calculated on the basis of uninformed fields (ignored/blank) and the annual average percentage of incompleteness for essential and mandatory variables.
Results
The overall average percentage of incompleteness of the analyzed variables was classified as Bad (22.4%). The average percentage of incompleteness by blocks ranged from regular for variables on reporting (14.4%) and victim identification (14.6%) to Bad for variables on ending (30.8%) and referral (32.9%).
Conclusion
The data of notification of violence presented Bad quality of completion, despite the increase in the number of notifications. It is recommended to monitor the data and to train professionals in the correct completion of notifications.
Keywords:
epidemiological surveillance; violence; health information systems; compulsory notification; data quality
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