The Changing Pattern of Hospital Admission to Medical Wards: Burden of non- XXXX at a hospital in a developing country.

@entity1 @entity66 @entity6 @entity3621 @entity293 @entity4801 @entity311 @entity166 @entity65
OBJECTIVES: This study aimed to determine the pattern of hospital admissions and @entity1 outcomes in medical wards at Atbara Teaching Hospital in River Nile State, Sudan. METHODS: This retrospective cross-sectional study was conducted from August 2013 to July 2014 and included all @entity1 admitted to medical wards at the Atbara Teaching Hospital during the study period. Morbidity and mortality data was obtained from medical records. Diseases were categorised using the World Health Organization's @entity66 ( @entity66 ) coding system. RESULTS: A total of 2,614 @entity1 records were analysed. The age group with the highest admissions was the 56-65-year-old age group (19.4%) and the majority of @entity1 were admitted for one week or less (86.4%). Non- @entity166 constituted 71.8% of all cases. According to @entity66 classifications, @entity1 were admitted most frequently due to infectious or @entity4801 (19.7%), followed by diseases of the circulatory (16.4%), digestive (16.4%) and genito-urinary (13.8%) systems. The most common diseases were @entity65 (16.4%), @entity311 (11.3%), @entity3621 /peptic ulcer disease (9.8%), @entity293 (7.2%) and @entity6 (6.9%). The mortality rate was 4.7%. CONCLUSION: The burden of non- @entity166 was found to exceed that of @entity166 among @entity1 admitted to medical wards at the Atbara Teaching Hospital.
