Authors: Selim Kiliç¹; Sabahat Tezcan²; M. Emre Taçilar³; Banu Çakir²; Halil brahim Aydin³; Metin Hasde⁴; Brig Gen Erdal Gökçay³

Source: Military Medicine, Volume 170, Number 1, January 2005 , pp. 48-51(4)

Publisher: AMSUS - Association of Military Surgeons of the U.S.

Abstract:

A descriptive study was conducted in the pediatric inpatient unit of Gulhane Military Medical Academy, to investigate the morbidity and mortality characteristics of 532 infants hospitalized between January 1 and December 31, 2001, for treatment purposes. Of the study participants, 55.8% were boys and 44.2% were girls. The most common cause of hospitalization was neonatal hyperbilirubinemia (19.7%). The most common admission month was January (12.4%). Of 532 infants, 510 (95.9%) were discharged, whereas 22 patients died in the hospital. Twenty-one patients died in the neonatal period, and respiratory distress syndrome and neonatal sepsis were identified as the most common causes of death. Our finding of associations between male gender and low birth weight and hospital death is consistent with previous knowledge. Despite the high frequencies of pneumonia and gastroenteritis as admission diagnoses, the finding of only one pneumonia-related death and no gastroenteritis-related deaths in the study population is pleasing.

Document Type: Research article

Affiliations: 1: Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Gulhane Military Medical Academy, Ankara, Turkey. 2: Department of Public Health, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey. 3: Department of Pediatrics, Gulhane Military Medical Academy, Ankara, Turkey. 4: Department of Public Health, Gulhane Military Medical Academy, Ankara, Turkey.

Publication date: 2005-01-01

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