Distribuição espacial da adequabilidade dos exames de papanicolau na região nordeste Brasileira

Kelven  Ferreira dos Santos; Francyelson  Lobato; Cláudia Teresa  Frias Rios; Flávia  Baluz Bezerra de Farias Nunes

doi:10.36489/saudecoletiva.2021v11i68p7761-7770

Authors

Kelven Ferreira dos Santos Graduação em Enfermagem. Universidade Federal do Maranhão, São Luís, Maranhão, Brasil. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9380-7553
Francyelson Lobato Graduação em Enfermagem. Universidade Federal do Maranhão, São Luís, Maranhão, Brasil. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7916-1274
Cláudia Teresa Frias Rios Enfermeira. Doutora em Saúde Coletiva. Universidade Federal do Maranhão, São Luís, Maranhão, Brasil. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4988-0099
Flávia Baluz Bezerra de Farias Nunes Enfermeira. Doutora em Ciências. Universidade Federal do Maranhão, São Luís, Maranhão, Brasil. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7490-9362

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.36489/saudecoletiva.2021v11i68p7761-7770

Keywords:

Women's Health, Papanicolau Test;, Quality Control, Spatial Analysis.

Abstract

Objective: To perform the spatial analysis of the adequacy of cytopathological examinations in the northeastern region. Method:
This is an ecological, quantitative descriptive study, with unit of analysis the municipalities of the Northeast region and the exams performed in the period between 2015 and 2019. Results: The northeast region presented 272,619 unsatisfactory collections, it was observed that 252 (14.05%) of the northeastern municipalities presented adequacy between 100% and 95%, 29 (1.62%) with adequacy below 95% and 1,513 (84.34%) did not notify the performance of Pap smears. The main causes of unsatisfactory collections were the presence of drying artifacts (119,115) of the slides, presence of pyocytes (41,547) and collection of cellular material (31,736). Conclusion: We identified the absence of registration in the vast majority of municipalities in the spatial analysis, as errors related to the difficulty on the part of professionals who collect cytological material.