Morbidity, Mortality, and incidence of XXXX in Denmark 1976-1978.

@entity1 @entity82 @entity7160 @entity204
National and international statistics on the occurrence of @entity82 are generally based on death rates. In Denmark as elsewhere the morbidity and incidence of @entity82 is largely unknown. National @entity1 register data from 1976 to 1978 and data from a suburban county hospital register during 1971-1977 form the basis for calculations of hospital-related prevalence of @entity82 (discharge rates and consumption of bed-days). Furthermore, a measure of incidence was established and calculated for the suburban area. Mortality from @entity82 was about 10 per 100,000 population during 1976-77. Eight-five per cent of the @entity204 occurred in hospitals. Data from the national @entity1 register of somatic hospital wards underrated mortality from @entity82 by 40%. Death certificate data classified about 1/3 of th @entity204 as due to @entity7160 , whereas @entity7160 constituted 2/3 of the @entity204 in the material derived from the national @entity1 register. The discharge rate was about 60, and the expenditure of bed-days in somatic hospital departments was about 900 per 100,000 population during 1976-78. Forty per cent of the @entity1 were @entity1 . Seventy per cent of the @entity1 had @entity7160 -80% of the male and 55% of the female @entity1 . The annual incidence of @entity82 during 1976-77 was about 27 per 100,000. Forty-three per cent of the @entity1 were @entity1 . Two thirds of the newly diagnosed cases of @entity82 were alcoholic-80% for @entity1 and 50% for @entity1 . These extended morbidity data on the occurrence of @entity82 can easily be incorporated in future data based @entity1 registers and should be applied in evaluation of costs and preventive strategies.
