Abstract
Background
Information from the Hospital-based cancer registries (HBCR) is fundamental to watch cancer, analyzing that information allows the Hospital Unit to plan its resources, as well as evaluate the assistance offered to people who suffer from cancer.
Objective
To analyze the quality of information by verifying the completeness and consistency of the HBCR from the state of Mato Grosso (MT), Brazil.
Method
This is a quantitative study that evaluated the HBCR/MT, from 2008 to 2014. The time trend of the incompleteness proportions was analyzed by polynomial regression and its respective statistical significance (p<0,05). The analysis was done by the software Epi Info 7.0 and SPSS 25.0.
Results
A total of 15.090 cancer records were used in the study. The variables that presented the most incompleteness were: tumor-nodule-metastasis; schooling; final state of the disease at the end of the first treatment; and occupation.
Conclusion
Permanent Education, which aims for a bigger involvement of health professionals and an improvement of records registration, is essential to enhance information from the hospital database. Also, the continuous use of that information for the own Hospital Unit management funds the planning and the decision making, besides evaluating the quality of the assistance given.
Keywords:
neoplasms; information systems; quality improvement