Morbimortalidad en pacientes COVID-19 positivo / Morbimortality in COVID-19 positive patients

Objetivo: Descripción de la actualidad de la morbimortalidad de pacientes COVID-19 positivo en el Hospital General Docente "Ambato", para comprender el comportamiento del virus. Método: Descriptiva observacional y análisis de casos de morbimortalidad de pacientes. Resultados: La mayor prevalencia de casos COVID-19 se encuentra en adultos maduros (40-65 años) con un 48.1% de los casos registrados. Conclusión: La patogenia en pacientes COVID-19; en los registros proporcionados por el Hospital General Docente Ambato, se evidencia que la existencia de alguna comorbilidad de transcurso crónico, sobre todo en patologías cardiovasculares, respiratorias, renales y endocrino-metabólicas; sumándole a esto, en las poblaciones más vulnerables como son de adultos maduros (40 ­ 64 años de edad); de adultos mayores (> de 65 años); explicarían la tasa elevada de mortalidad y las implicaciones de la aparición de casos críticos, debido a la gravedad de las complicaciones evolutivas conduciendo a la vida humana a un desenlace fatal.

Objective: Description of the current morbimortality of COVID-19 positive patients at the Hospital General Docente "Ambato", in order to understand the behavior of the virus. Method: Descriptive observational and case analysis of patient morbimortality. Results: the highest prevalence of COVID-19 cases is found in mature adults (40-65 years) with 48.1% of registered cases. Conclusion: The pathogenesis in COVID-19 patients; in the records provided by the Hospital General Docente Ambato, it is evident that the existence of some comorbidity of chronic course, especially in cardiovascular, respiratory, renal and endocrine-metabolic pathologies; adding to this, in the most vulnerable populations such as mature adults (40 - 64 years of age); older adults (> 65 years of age); would explain the high mortality rate and the implications of the appearance of critical cases, due to the severity of the evolutionary complications leading to a fatal outcome in human life.

A Survey Study of Organizational Situation of Medical Record Department for Producation of Disease Statistics on National Basis / 대한의료정보학회지

The purpose of this study was to survey the organizational situation of medical record department(MRD) in hospitals to identify the factors influencing the production ol disease statistics in Korea. 134 hospitals answered for the structured questionnaires mailed to the 218 hospitals. This studs results are as follows. 1 ) There were three types in organizational situation of MRD: independent department (70.1%) a unit in other department (26.1 %) .and in the rest 3.7%. there were no MRD or unit. 2) The differences of work performed in MR ~) or on it in the second referral level hospitals and the third referral level hospitals were statistically significant in incomplete medical record management(p<0.05) DRG coding supplying research data, quality improvement activity. cancer registration(p<0.01) and transeription of medical record( p<0.0l). 3) 66.4% of the target hospitals were performing the recheeking of disease classification data after reponsible physicians completed the incomplete record 4) statistically significant variables which affect works performed in MRD are organizational situation of MRD(<0.001) and the number of medical record professionals. 41.3% of variation of works performed in MRD was explained by variation of organizational situation and the number of medical record professionals.

Feasibility Study of Application of UHDDS Items for Hospital Discharge Abstract and Analysis in Tertiary Care Hospitals / 대한의료정보학회지

The purpose of this study is to identify standardized items from Hospital Discharge Abstract and Analysis data by using UHDDS(Uniform Hospital Discharge Data Sets in USA) and to ascertain the computerization in tertiary hospitals. The data were collected by questionnaire survey, responded 38 hospitals(86.4%) out of 44 tertiary hospitals, and the conclusions are as follows. 1. As for the general characteristics of patient; hospital registration number, patient name, sex and social identification number were reported to 0.92%. 2. As for admission and discharge aspects; admission date was showed 0.92, type of admission and insurance were 0.87%, discharge date 0.92%, the code of primary condition, other diagnoses and primary procedure were 0.89%, disposition of discharge was 0.61%. 3. As for the other characteristics; attending physician license number and name of operating physician were showed 0.87%, birth weight of newborn 0.74%, nationality 0.44%. 4. As for the order communicating system, computerization for the medical record management was showed 57.9%, administration of outpatient 53.6%, administration of inpatient 44.7%, administration of emergency care 28.9%. Judging from the study, the development of Korean Uniform Hospital Discharge Data Sets using Discharge Abstract and Analysis System is applicable to the national wide collection of statistics on the diseases for the discharged patients.

Tissue parasitic diseases in Korea

Parasitic disease is still important subject in the field of infectious diseases in Korea considering it's number and morbidity. Recently there was conspicuous reduction of parasitic disease in terms of soil-transmitted nematodiasis, but parasitism affecting organs other than intestinal tract is still a considerable problem. This survey covers the parasitic diseases cross-sectioned at a pathology laboratory of a referral hospital, trying to elucidate the significance of its relative frequency and also to describe some histopathological changes made by different parasites. Entire pathological materials of parasitic diseases, that were referred, examined and confirmed at the Department of Pathology, Seoul National University Hospital from 1968 to 1987, were used for the study. There was a total of 594 cases of tissue parasitic diseases. This number accounted for 0.33 per cent of total accessions of surgical pathology. There occurred average 30 cases of tissue parasitic disease each year at this Hospital. Protozoal diseases were constituted of 15 cases of amebiasis, 7 cases of leishmaniasis (imported) and 5 cases of Pneumocystis carinii infections. Among helminthic infections cysticercosis was the most common (425 cases), and was followed by paragonimiasis (35 cases), sparganosis (31 cases), clonorchiasis (32 cases) and ascariasis (16 cases). In addition there were 4 cases of anisakiasis, 2 cases of fascioliasis, 2 cases of echinococcosis (imported) and a case of strongyloidiasis and a case of metagonimiasis respectively. It is emphasized that imported parasitic diseases such as leishmaniasis and hydatid disease become steadily found nowadays. Schistosomiasis is another possible imported disease, but not found in this series. And certain cestodiasis particularly cysticercosis and sparganosis should be the subjects of epidemiologic re-evaluation in view of steady occurrence of their morbidity.