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- Title
Disease frequency among inpatients at a tertiary general hospital in Lao PDR.
- Authors
Viengsakhone Louangpradith; Bounfeng Phoummalaysith; Tetsuyoshi Kariya; Yu Mon Saw; Eiko Yamamoto; Nobuyuki Hamajima
- Abstract
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 from 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 <20 years and 254 (21.1%) 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 <20 years was 81.8% in males and 59.0% in females. Among those aged 20-59 years, it was 49.9% and 22.4%, and among those 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.
- Subjects
DIAGNOSIS; DISEASES; HOSPITAL admission &; discharge; INTERNATIONAL Statistical Classification of Diseases &; Related Health Problems; TERTIARY care; POISONING
- Publication
Nagoya Journal of Medical Science, 2020, Vol 82, Issue 1, p113
- ISSN
0027-7622
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.18999/nagjms.82.1.113