Fifteen Years of Inpatient Care in An Academic Division of General Internal Medicine:
作者:
BeguinC.,
BolandB.,
Van MullemX.,
Van MullemT.,
FranceF. Roger,
CocheE.,
LambertM.,
期刊:
Acta Clinica Belgica
(Taylor Available online 1996)
卷期:
Volume 51,
issue 5
页码: 311-319
ISSN:1784-3286
年代: 1996
DOI:10.1080/22953337.1996.11718525
出版商: Taylor&Francis
数据来源: Taylor
摘要:
SummaryWe describe the trends over time in patient’s diagnoses, case-complexity, case-severity, length of stay and mortality rate during the last 15 years in an academic division of general internal medicine (GIM). Our study shows that GIM patients presented with a broad spectrum of diseases. Moreover important changes were observed in the patient characteristics, i.e. a progressive increase in urgent admissions, severe medical conditions and elderly population. This evolution was associated with a significant rise in case-severity and case-complexity which explains the observed increase in hospital mortality rate. These variables should be accounted for when analyzing processes and outcomes of inpatient medical care in internal medicine.
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