Predictors of in-hospital mortality in Kuwait

ABSTRACT

Background: Many factors affect mortality among hospitalized patients. These include; age, sex, principal diagnosis. presence of co-morbidity, performance of surgical operation, emergency admission and length of hospital stay. Identification of all these factors especially those, which are amenable to improvement would require collection and analysis of data to be able to determine risky patients and give them more attention. This would reduce death rate among those at high risk of dying after hospital admission