title: Evaluation of the completeness and timeliness of malaria reporting in the Brazilian Amazon, 2003-2012.
abstract: to evaluate the completeness and timeliness of malaria case reporting, diagnosis and treatment in the Brazilian Amazon.
  
  
  
  this is a descriptive study using data from 23 fields of notification forms recorded on the Malaria Epidemiological Surveillance Information System (Sivep-Malaria) between 2003 and 2012.
  
  
  
  data completeness was good in 86.0% of fields (≥90.0% filled in); there was timely recording of 40.6% of notifications at the Municipal Health Departments (0-7 days following notification) and 75.6% at the Ministry of Health (0-30 days following notification); timely diagnosis and timely treatment occurred in 44.6% and 45.4% of patients, respectively.
  
  
  
  most notification forms had good completeness; timeliness in recording notifications was below international standards; timeliness of diagnosis and treatment was below the Ministry of Health recommendations.
authors.affiliation: Secretaria de Vigilância em Saúde, Departamento de Vigilância de Doenças Transmissíveis, Brasília-DF, Brasil.
authors.forename: Rui Moreira
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Braz
authors.affiliation: Universidade de Brasília, Faculdade de Medicina, Brasília-DF, Brasil.
authors.forename: Pedro Luiz
authors.initials: PL
authors.lastname: Tauil
authors.affiliation: Secretaria de Vigilância em Saúde, Coordenação-Geral do Programa Nacional de Controle da Malária, Brasília-DF, Brasil.
authors.forename: Ana Carolina Faria E Silva
authors.initials: AC
authors.lastname: Santelli
authors.affiliation: Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso, Departamento de Clínica Médica, Cuiabá-MT, Brasil.
authors.forename: Cor Jesus Fernandes
authors.initials: CJ
authors.lastname: Fontes
mesh_terms: D001938:Brazil / Q000453:epidemiology; D018563:Disease Notification / Q000592:standards* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D008288:Malaria / Q000453:epidemiology*; D011159:Population Surveillance; D012015:Reference Standards; D013997:Time Factors