%0 Journal Article %T Completude das fichas de notifica es de tuberculose em cinco capitais do Brasil com elevada incid¨ºncia da doen a Completeness of tuberculosis reporting forms in five Brazilian capitals with a high incidence of the disease %A Normeide Pedreira dos Santos %A Monique L¨ªrio %A Louran Andrade Reis Passos %A Juarez Pereira Dias %J Jornal Brasileiro de Pneumologia %D 2013 %I Sociedade Brasileira de Pneumologia e Tisiologia %X O objetivo deste estudo foi avaliar a completude das fichas de notifica es de tuberculose de cinco capitais brasileiras com alta incid¨ºncia regional de tuberculose em 2010 - Salvador, Rio de Janeiro, Cuiab¨¢, Porto Alegre e Bel¨¦m - atrav¨¦s dos relat¨®rios de tabula o do Sistema Nacional de Informa o de Agravos e Notifica es. Porto Alegre e Cuiab¨¢ apresentaram os melhores resultados, enquanto o Rio de Janeiro, capital com o maior n¨²mero de notifica es de tuberculose no pa¨ªs, apresentou o pior. A baixa completude desses formul¨¢rios pode comprometer a qualidade do Programa Nacional de Controle da Tuberculose e repercutir na assist¨ºncia e nos processos decis¨®rios. The aim of this study was to evaluate the completeness of tuberculosis reporting forms in the greater metropolitan areas of five Brazilian capitals where the incidence of tuberculosis was high in 2010 - Salvador, Rio de Janeiro, Cuiab¨¢, Porto Alegre, and Bel¨¦m - using tabulations obtained from the Sistema Nacional de Informa o de Agravos de Notifica o (National Case Registry Database). The degree of completeness was highest in Porto Alegre and Cuiab¨¢, whereas it was lowest in Rio de Janeiro, where there are more reported cases of tuberculosis than in any other Brazilian capital. A low degree of completeness of these forms can affect the quality of the Brazilian National Tuberculosis Control Program, which will have negative consequences for health care and decision-making processes. %K Tuberculose %K Vigilancia da popula o %K Notifica o de doen as %K Tuberculosis %K Public health surveillance %K Disease notification %U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1806-37132013000200014