RESUMO
Descrever o perfil dos óbitos ocorridos no hospital, determinar a taxa de mortalidade(TM) hospitalar, determinar a taxa de mortalidade em cada setor de internamento e determinar o índice de letalidade por grupo de doenças do CID-10. Estudo descritivo, retrospectivo através da análise dos prontuários de todos os internamentos ocorridos no Hospital Universitário Evangélico de Curitiba (HUEC) no período de janeiro de 2009 a dezembro de 2010. Ocorreram 64799 internamentos nesse período e, destes, 2499 foram a óbito. As doenças do aparelho circulatório foram as responsáveis pelo maior número de óbitos no HUEC, 21,13% do total. 40,12% dos óbitos ocorridos foram considerados evitáveis. A TM hospitalar foi de 3,92. O grupo de doenças que apresentou a maior taxa de mortalidade foi o de "causas externas de morbidade e mortalidade", com 19,21%. Entre os setores de internamento, as unidades de terapia intensiva (UTI) apresentaram as maiores TM
To describe the profile of the deaths that took place in the hospital, to determine the hospital mortality rate(MR), to determine the mortality rate in each hospitalization sector and to determine the lethality rate per ICD-10 disease group. A descriptive, retrospective research was developed, through the analysis of the medical records of every hospitalization that occurred in the Hospital Universitário Evangélico de Curitiba (HUEC) in the period from January 2009 to December 2010. In this period, there were 64799 hospitalizations, of which 2499 died. Diseases of the circulatory system were responsible for the majority of deaths in the HUEC, 21,13% of the total. 40,12% of the deaths that occurred were considered avoidable. The hospital MR was 3,92%. The group of diseases that presented the highest mortality rate was the "external causes of morbidity and mortality", with 19, 21%. Between the hospitalization sectors, the intensive care unities (ICU) were the ones that showed the highest MR