Perfil clínico-epidemiológico de crianças internadas em uma Unidade de Terapia Intensiva de referência pública do estado do Pará, Amazônia, Brasil

Abstract

The research was carried out from the consultation of 232 medical records of hospitalized children from January to December 2016. In this study, the Pearson Chi- square test (independent samples) was used for trend. To perform the test, a significance level of p-value <0.05 was adopted. In this way, the data collected were tabulated, interpreted, processed and analyzed through descriptive and analytical statistics. For the analysis of the data, we used computer resources, through processing in the Microsoft Excel system, Statistic Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 22.0, all in the Windows 7 environment. There was a greater frequency of hospitalizations of male children (120; 51.72%), but this frequency does not differ significantly (p> 0.05) from the frequency of female children (112; 48.28%). The majority of the patients were in the age group of infants from 29 days to 6 months (137; 59.05%), and were from the interior of the state of Pará (179; 77.16%), these being pointed as tendencies (p <0.05) among the patients. It was observed that 104 (44.83%) children remained hospitalized for up to 30 days. As for the most prevalent diseases, congenital malformations of the circulatory system corresponded to 80.17% (186) and the hospital mortality rate was 15%. The results of this research point to a profile of infants, coming from the interior of the State. The most prevalent diseases in this group are congenital malformations of the circulatory system and a hospital mortality rate of 15%.