To investigate the deaths from ill-defined causes with no assistance reported in the MortalityInformation System.
Method:
Use of the tool Verbal Autopsy in the investigation of deaths from ill-defined causes/without assistance, informed to the MortalityInformation System in theyear of 2011 in the city of Santa Maria, state of Rio Grande do Sul, in the south of Brazil.
Results:
Of the 645 deaths in the city in 2011 the chapter of ill-defined causes/unassisted represented 36.3% (n = 234).