| Statistical Survey on Pediatric patients admitted to Kwangju Christian Hospital during 5 years. |
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Song Nyeon Choi, Young Hee Chung, Young Wook Kim, Ki Bok Kim |
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Department of Pediatrics, Kwangju Christian Hospital, Kwangju, Korea |
| 소아과 입원환아에 대한 통계적 관찰* |
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최송년, 정영희, 김용욱, 김기복 |
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광주기독병원 소아과 |
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Received: 31 July 1990 • Accepted: 31 July 1990 |
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| Abstract |
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We made a statistical survey on the patients admitted to the Department of Pediatrics of Kwangju
Christian Hospital during the past 5 years from Jan. 1984 to Dec. 1988
The results were as follows:
1) The pediatric inpatients during the period totaled 16,119, of which 10,020 were male, with the sex
ratio being 1.6:1.
2) Pediatric patients amounted to 17.8% of all admission cases of Kwangju Christian Hospital
during the period.
3) Occupying 29.7% of total admissions, the neonates less than 1 month of age topped among all age
groups, and 2.7% of them ended in fatality, accounting for 55.6% of total deaths.
4) Seasonal distribution revealed high incidence in summer.
5) Respiratory tract disease was the most frequent (27.3%), followed by infectious and parasitic
disease (26.7%) and neonatal disease (25.1%), with these three groups making up 79.1% of all cases.
6) Major leading causes of hospitalization were diarrheal diseases (14.2%), pneumonia(13.1%),
hyperbilirubinemia (11.8%), upper respiratory infection(7.8%), prematurity(5.4%) in the decreasing
order of frequency.
7) Overall mortality was 1.4%.
8) The leading disease causing death was prematurity, followed by pneumonia, congenital heart
disease and sepsis in the decreasing order of frequency.
9) Of individual diseases, Reye syndrome was found to be the most serious with the mortality rate
of 36%, followed by tetanus neonatorum (26.7%), severe dehydration with electrolyte imbalance(22.
5%) and sepsis (21.6%). |
| Key Words:
Statistical survey, Pediatric inpatients |
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