Study of mortality in the main University Hospital in Alexandria

ABSTRACT

The present study was carried out with, aiming to assess the mortality outcome among inpatients of the Main University Hospital [MUH] in the years 1990 and 1995 to reveal characteristics of the descendants, and to study variations encountered between 1990 and 1995. In both years, about 1/4 of deaths were from outside Alexandria, and deaths were more observed during winter and spring. The leading causes of death are varied between the study years. In 1990, they were injury and poisoning, diseases of circulatory, respiratory, digestive and genitourinary systems. While in 1995, they were diseases of the digestive system jump to the third rank and followed by diseases of the genitourinary system. Moreover, significant differences were encountered by time regarding the causes of death where malignant neoplasms, diseases of digestive system and congenital malformations were significantly more observed in 1995 than in 1990. The reverse was true regarding diseases of respiratory system, diseases of blood as well as the category of symptoms, signs and abnormal findings. Intensive Care, Hematemesis, and Burn Units had the highest death rates in both study years