Objective: To assess the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic on hospital admissions (HA),
intra-hospital deaths (HD), and intra-hospital lethality rates (HL) related to respiratory …

Objective To compare a private quaternary referral hospital, a public tertiary hospital, and a
field hospital dedicated to patients with COVID-19, regarding patients' characteristics …

The COVID-19 pandemic may indirectly impact hospitalizations for other natural causes.
Belo Horizonte is a city with 2.5 million inhabitants in Brazil, one of the most hardly-hit …

Objective To study the profile of hospitalizations due to COVID-19 in the Unified Health
System (SUS) in Brazil and to identify factors associated with in-hospital mortality related to …

Background Almost 200,000 deaths from COVID-19 were reported in Brazil in 2020. The
case fatality rate of a new infectious disease can vary by different risk factors and over time …

Objective: To analyze COVID-19 deaths in public hospitals in a Brazilian state, stratified by
the three waves of the pandemic, and to test their association with socio-clinical variables …

Objectives: To describe the profile of hospital deaths in Brazil according to cause of
admission during the pre-pandemic (2019) and pandemic periods (2020). Methods …

In March of 2020, community transmission of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus
2 was confirmed in Brazil. In the present study, we investigated possible changes in trends …

Objective To analyze the geographical variation in the provision of health services, namely
in demand, patterns of utilization, and effectiveness in the Brazilian Health Regions in four …

Background Most low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs) have little or no data
integrated into a national surveillance system to identify characteristics or outcomes of …