Admissions in an Internal Medicine Department - Differences with a ten years interval (1984 - 1994)

Authors

  • Ana Nogueira Interno do lntemato Complementar de Medicina lnterna, Serviço 1 do Hospital de Santo António dos Capuchos, Lisboa
  • Margarida Coelho Asslstente Eventual de Medicina lnterna, Serviço 1 do Hospital de Santo António dos Capuchos, Lisboa
  • Leonor Ribeiro Assistente Eventual de Medicina lnterna, Serviço 1 do Hospital de Santo António dos Capuchos, Lisboa
  • Estela Mateus Asslstente Eventual de Medicina lnterna, Serviço 1 do Hospital de Santo António dos Capuchos, Lisboa
  • João Jacquet Chefe de Serviço de Medicina Interna, Serviço 1 do Hospital de Santo António dos Capuchos, Lisboa
  • Barros Veloso Dlrector de Serviço, Serviço 1 do Hospital de Santo António dos Capuchos, Lisboa

Keywords:

admissions, Internal Medicine, AIDS, chronic hepatic disease, elderly population

Abstract

The authors examined the admissions in an Internal Medicine ward in 1984 and 1994, with evidence of some important differences betwe­en the casuistry of the two series that were analysed:

  1. a significant rise of the rate of admissions in the mate patients between 21 and 30 years old (2,4% in 1984 and 5,4% in 1994, p< 0,001) owing to the higher number of infectious disease ca­ses, including AIDS' cases that were not found in 1984.
  2. a fali in the rate of admissions between 41 and 50 years (11,6% in 1984 and 7% ind 1994) and between 51 and 60 years ( 21,9% in 1984 and 13% in 1994); this fall was bigger in the mate sex and it is likely to be due to the smaller number of chronic hepatic disease cases in mate patients (9,4% in 1984 and 3,8% in 1994, p< 0,05).
  1. a significant rise of the rate of admissions of patients 81 year sold or more (p< 0,001), because of general aging of the population.

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1996-03-29

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Nogueira A, Coelho M, Ribeiro L, Mateus E, Jacquet J, Veloso B. Admissions in an Internal Medicine Department - Differences with a ten years interval (1984 - 1994). RPMI [Internet]. 1996 Mar. 29 [cited 2024 May 19];3(1):9-14. Available from: https://revista.spmi.pt/index.php/rpmi/article/view/2257

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Vol. 3 No. 1 (1996): Janeiro/ Março

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