Status and perspectives of hospital mortality in a public urban Hellenic hospital, based on a five-year review.

BMC Public Health
Iordanis N PapadopoulosAnastasia Kostaki

Abstract

Analysis of hospital mortality helps to assess the standards of health-care delivery. This is a retrospective cohort study evaluating the causes of deaths which occurred during the years 1995-1999 in a single hospital. The causes of death were classified according to the International Statistical Classification of Diseases (ICD-10). Of the 149,896 patients who were discharged the 5836 (3.4%) died. Males constituted 55% and females 45%. The median age was 75.1 years (1 day - 100 years). The seven most common ICD-10 chapters IX, II, IV, XI, XX, X, XIV included 92% of the total 5836 deaths. The most common contributors of non-neoplasmatic causes of death were cerebrovascular diseases (I60-I69) at 15.8%, ischemic heart disease (I20-I25) at 10.3%, cardiac failure (I50.0-I50.9) at 7.9%, diseases of the digestive system (K00-K93) at 6.7%, diabetes mellitus (E10-E14) at 6.6%, external causes of morbidity and mortality (V01-Y98) at 6.2%, renal failure (N17-N19) at 4.5%, influenza and pneumonia (J10-J18) at 4.1% and certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99) at 3.2%, accounting for 65.3% of the total 5836 deaths. Neoplasms (C00-D48) caused 17.7% (n = 1027) of the total 5836 deaths, with leading forms being the malignant neoplasm...Continue Reading

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