Disease frequency among inpatients at a tertiary general hospital in Lao PDR
Disease frequency among inpatients at a tertiary general hospital in Lao PDR
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DOI:
10.18999/nagjms.82.1.113
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发表时间:
2020-02-01
影响因子:
0.9
通讯作者:
Hamajima, Nobuyuki
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作者:
Louangpradith, Viengsakhone;Phoummalaysith, Bounfeng;Hamajima, Nobuyuki
In Lao People's Democratic Republic (Lao PDR), reports on disease frequency are very limited. This study aimed to report frequencies of the main cause of admission among inpatients of a tertiary general hospital (Mittaphab Hospital) in Vientiane. Subjects were inpatients who were admitted fmm January 3 to February 2 in 2017. The dataset were made as a pilot run to establish hospital statistics. The data on sex, age. address (province), dates of admission and discharge, and main diagnosis were collected from paper-based medical charts. International Classification of Diseases 10 was applied for classifying the main diagnosis. During the 1-month period, 1,201 inpatients (637 males and 564 females) were admitted, including 171 (14.2%) aged = 60 years. About 20% patients were from outside of Vientiane. Among them, 67.5% (62.5% in males and 73.8% in females) were admitted within 7 days. The main causes with more than 10% in males were injury and poisoning S00-T98 (49.8%), while those in females were injury and poisoning S00-T98 (25.2%), pregnancy and childbirth O00-O99 (19.0%), and diseases of genitourinary system N00-N99 (13.7%). Injury and poisoning S00-T98 among inpatients aged = 60 years it was 22.3% and 16.9%, respectively. This is the first report on the frequencies of main diseases among inpatients in Lao PDR. Injury was the first main cause of admission at the tertiary hospital.