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Retrospective analysis of mortalities in a tertiary care hospital in Northeast Ethiopia
BACKGROUND: Mortalities in the health care set up are prevalent, and causes are multifactorial with variations from area to area and also from ward to ward in the same health care set up. Analysis of mortalities and its causes in Ethiopian hospitals including Dessie Referral Hospital is not adequate...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3899922/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24443798 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-0500-7-46 |
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author | Abejew, Asrat Agalu Tamir, Alemneh Smieneh Kerie, Mirkuzie Woldie |
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description | BACKGROUND: Mortalities in the health care set up are prevalent, and causes are multifactorial with variations from area to area and also from ward to ward in the same health care set up. Analysis of mortalities and its causes in Ethiopian hospitals including Dessie Referral Hospital is not adequately known. Thus, the aim of this study is to determine the prevalence of mortalities and its causes in the Dessie Referral Hospital, Northeast Ethiopia. METHODS: A retrospective analysis of mortalities during a three year period (September 2010–2012) was conducted in the Dessie Referral Hospital from August-September, 2012. All in hospital mortalities in the hospital during the last three years were included in the study. Data were collected from patient discharge recording books. Finally, data were entered into SPSS windows version 16.0 and descriptive statistics were generated to meet the study objective. RESULTS: During the last 3 years there were 1,481 (4.8%) mortalities in the hospital. Around 60.0% of the mortalities were among male patients, and two third of the mortalities were among patients aged 15 years or older. The majority of the mortalities (38.9%) were in the medical ward followed by pediatric (34.6%) and surgical (18.2%) wards. Most of the mortalities (34.8%) occurred during 2011 while least was in 2012 (31.8%). HIV/AIDS (14.8%), pneumonia (9.9%), and sepsis/shock (7.6%) were the three most common causes of mortality in the hospital during the three year period. On average, patients stayed for 2.86 (±2. 99) days in the wards before mortality. CONCLUSION: Mortalities in the wards of the Dessie Referral Hospital were high and the causes were mainly of infectious origin, HIV/AIDS and its complications being the most common causes. This calls for an integrated effort to reduce in hospital mortalities by equipping the hospital and its health care providers with the skills and medical supplies required for proper management of the most common causes of in hospital mortality reported in this study. |
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spelling | pubmed-38999222014-01-24 Retrospective analysis of mortalities in a tertiary care hospital in Northeast Ethiopia Abejew, Asrat Agalu Tamir, Alemneh Smieneh Kerie, Mirkuzie Woldie BMC Res Notes Research Article BACKGROUND: Mortalities in the health care set up are prevalent, and causes are multifactorial with variations from area to area and also from ward to ward in the same health care set up. Analysis of mortalities and its causes in Ethiopian hospitals including Dessie Referral Hospital is not adequately known. Thus, the aim of this study is to determine the prevalence of mortalities and its causes in the Dessie Referral Hospital, Northeast Ethiopia. METHODS: A retrospective analysis of mortalities during a three year period (September 2010–2012) was conducted in the Dessie Referral Hospital from August-September, 2012. All in hospital mortalities in the hospital during the last three years were included in the study. Data were collected from patient discharge recording books. Finally, data were entered into SPSS windows version 16.0 and descriptive statistics were generated to meet the study objective. RESULTS: During the last 3 years there were 1,481 (4.8%) mortalities in the hospital. Around 60.0% of the mortalities were among male patients, and two third of the mortalities were among patients aged 15 years or older. The majority of the mortalities (38.9%) were in the medical ward followed by pediatric (34.6%) and surgical (18.2%) wards. Most of the mortalities (34.8%) occurred during 2011 while least was in 2012 (31.8%). HIV/AIDS (14.8%), pneumonia (9.9%), and sepsis/shock (7.6%) were the three most common causes of mortality in the hospital during the three year period. On average, patients stayed for 2.86 (±2. 99) days in the wards before mortality. CONCLUSION: Mortalities in the wards of the Dessie Referral Hospital were high and the causes were mainly of infectious origin, HIV/AIDS and its complications being the most common causes. This calls for an integrated effort to reduce in hospital mortalities by equipping the hospital and its health care providers with the skills and medical supplies required for proper management of the most common causes of in hospital mortality reported in this study. BioMed Central 2014-01-20 /pmc/articles/PMC3899922/ /pubmed/24443798 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-0500-7-46 Text en Copyright © 2014 Abejew et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Abejew, Asrat Agalu Tamir, Alemneh Smieneh Kerie, Mirkuzie Woldie Retrospective analysis of mortalities in a tertiary care hospital in Northeast Ethiopia |
title | Retrospective analysis of mortalities in a tertiary care hospital in Northeast Ethiopia |
title_full | Retrospective analysis of mortalities in a tertiary care hospital in Northeast Ethiopia |
title_fullStr | Retrospective analysis of mortalities in a tertiary care hospital in Northeast Ethiopia |
title_full_unstemmed | Retrospective analysis of mortalities in a tertiary care hospital in Northeast Ethiopia |
title_short | Retrospective analysis of mortalities in a tertiary care hospital in Northeast Ethiopia |
title_sort | retrospective analysis of mortalities in a tertiary care hospital in northeast ethiopia |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3899922/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24443798 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-0500-7-46 |
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