Diez primeras causas de morbilidad intrahospitalaria en el área de pediatría del Hospital Vicente Corral Moscoso durante el periodo 1996 - 1998

Abstract

The importance of children and especially their health; to be aware that our environment there is a large child population and most people who go to medical consultations are children are the reasons that led to this study by the authors. It is a retrospective epidemiological work to guide in statistical form on the leading causes of hospital morbidity in our region. The study was conducted in the Department of Pediatrics of the Hospital Vicente Corral Moscoso, data obtained from January 1, 1996 to December 31, 1998, indicated that a total of 4803 graduates, 2252 patients are pigeonholed in the top ten causes pediatric disease, according to the International Classification of Diseases [ICD-10. Tenth Revision], which are: Acute respiratory failure + pneumonia, head trauma. Jaundice, prematurity, acute diarrheal disease, malnutrition, burns, febrile seizures, other respiratory problems of the newborn, inguinal hernia. Distribution of each disease was studied by age, sex, residence, status at discharge; well it was determined the frequency of each of the ten main diseases in each year of study. In the end it was found significant changes in the frequency of nosocomial diseases in children, especially the second cause of morbidity compared with previous studies.