Assessment of patient admission outcome at Sulaimani's Intensive Care Unit General Teaching Hospital in 2013: A retrospective study

Volume 17 , Issue 2 , June 2015 , Pages 130-154

Authors

¹ Sulaimani Polytechnic University, Midwifery Department, Sulaimani, Kurdistan Region, Iraq,

² Sulaimani Polytechnic University, Nursing Department, Sulaimani, Kurdistan Region, Iraq,

Measuring how many people died each year and why they died along with the

assessment of the diseases and the injuries that affected the population, is important for

the effectiveness of the country's health (WHO, 2005). This study has been done in order

to assess the frequency of the patient's characteristics, reasons and outcome of admission

patients in the Sulaimani's Intensive care Unit that determine the type of diseases for

hospitalized patients. Information was obtained from the patients’ medical records

including (age, gender, occupation, patient's outcome, residency and disease type). The

records of 655 hospitalized patients with medical diseases were analyzed from January

2013 to December 2013. Males represented 52.5% and females 47.5% of them. The most

affected age groups were 61-70 followed by 71-80. Out of the total, 60.9% of those

discharged from hospital were alive, while, 39.1% of them were deceased. Respiratory

diseases were the most common cause of admission (22.0%), followed by cerebral

disease (20.3 %.), blood disease (13.9%) and heart diseases (13.1%); these were having

the highest frequency among hospitalized patients. In Sulaimani, cerebral diseases,

respiratory diseases, renal and heart diseases were the more prevalent leading causes of

death

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