Distribution of cases and outcome at paediatric inpatient department of a tertiary care hospital
Journal Title: MedPulse -International Medical Journal - Year 2015, Vol 2, Issue 9
Abstract
Background: The medical records section in a hospital can be used for the compilation and retention of the medical records; however the derivation of meaningful statistics from the records in a hospital for health care planning and review is lacking especially in our country. Childhood morbidity utilizes a substantial portion of available health care resources in the terms of hospital bed utilization, and the overload in hospital ward remains a major concern in many countries, including India. A possible way to minimize the problem is to analyze the data from medical records to identify the causes and plan the services accordingly. Objective: The present study was done to study the distribution of cases and their outcome at paediatrics inpatient department of a tertiary care hospital. Methods: The present clinical study was carried out at paediatrics department of our tertiary care hospital. Study duration was from Jan 2014 to Dec 2014. Total of 2895 patients admitted in the paediatric ward during the study period were analyzed. Age and sex distribution of the patients, distribution of cases in study group and the outcome in the form of improvement, mortality, recovery or discharge against medical advice was described. Results: Most of the patients were between 5 to 12 years of age. The average age of study group was 5.53 years. There was a slight predominance of males with 52 percent patients being males. Enteric fever was the commonest diagnosis contributing 421 cases followed by 335 cases contributed by viral fever. Outcome was good with 90.12% cases being discharged with complete recovery and 8.1% showing improvement. The proportion of patients who got discharge against medical advice was 1.1%. The mortality in our study population during the study period was 0.7%.
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V R Chaudhari, R N Patil
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