Relación entre el motivo de ingreso y la causa de muerte en pacientes fallecidos en un Servicio de Medicina Interna

Background: When patients are admitted to an internal medicine ward, they and their relatives believe that they will leave the internal medicine service in a better health condition or, if they die, their cause of death will be the same that motivated the hospital admission. Sometimes, patients die...

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Autores principales:	Vega S,Jorge, Parodi E,María José, Puebla A,Claudio
Lenguaje:	Spanish / Castilian
Publicado:	Sociedad Médica de Santiago 2004
Materias:	Cause of death Fatal outcome Hospital mortality
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spelling	oai:scielo:S0034-988720040006000072014-08-14Relación entre el motivo de ingreso y la causa de muerte en pacientes fallecidos en un Servicio de Medicina InternaVega S,JorgeParodi E,María JoséPuebla A,Claudio Cause of death Fatal outcome Hospital mortality Background: When patients are admitted to an internal medicine ward, they and their relatives believe that they will leave the internal medicine service in a better health condition or, if they die, their cause of death will be the same that motivated the hospital admission. Sometimes, patients die due to a different disease than the cause of admission or due to complications of diagnostic or therapeutic procedures. Aim: To assess the proportion of deaths that occurred in internal medicine wards for causes that differ from the cause for admission and the proportion of deaths related to complications of diagnostic or therapeutic procedures. Patients and methods: Three hundred and three consecutive patients were studied during 28 months. Their cause of death was classified in four groups: A. If it was the same illness of admission; B. A frecuent or expected complication of the illness that motivated the admission; C. A complication of one of their chronic diseases and not the one of admission; D. If it was not related to an already present chronic illness or the cause for admission. Results: Sixty nine percent of deaths corresponded to group A, 7.9% to group B, 11.2% to group C and 11.9% to group D. Diagnostic or therapeutic procedures were the cause of death in 0.7 and 3.6% of cases respectively. Conclusions: Twenty three percent of patients died due to causes that differ from the cause of admission. A low percentage of deaths were related to procedures and most of them were due to complications of therapeutic measures (Rev Méd Chile 2004; 132: 707-17)info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessSociedad Médica de SantiagoRevista médica de Chile v.132 n.6 20042004-06-01text/htmlhttp://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-98872004000600007es10.4067/S0034-98872004000600007
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topic	Cause of death Fatal outcome Hospital mortality
spellingShingle	Cause of death Fatal outcome Hospital mortality Vega S,Jorge Parodi E,María José Puebla A,Claudio Relación entre el motivo de ingreso y la causa de muerte en pacientes fallecidos en un Servicio de Medicina Interna
description	Background: When patients are admitted to an internal medicine ward, they and their relatives believe that they will leave the internal medicine service in a better health condition or, if they die, their cause of death will be the same that motivated the hospital admission. Sometimes, patients die due to a different disease than the cause of admission or due to complications of diagnostic or therapeutic procedures. Aim: To assess the proportion of deaths that occurred in internal medicine wards for causes that differ from the cause for admission and the proportion of deaths related to complications of diagnostic or therapeutic procedures. Patients and methods: Three hundred and three consecutive patients were studied during 28 months. Their cause of death was classified in four groups: A. If it was the same illness of admission; B. A frecuent or expected complication of the illness that motivated the admission; C. A complication of one of their chronic diseases and not the one of admission; D. If it was not related to an already present chronic illness or the cause for admission. Results: Sixty nine percent of deaths corresponded to group A, 7.9% to group B, 11.2% to group C and 11.9% to group D. Diagnostic or therapeutic procedures were the cause of death in 0.7 and 3.6% of cases respectively. Conclusions: Twenty three percent of patients died due to causes that differ from the cause of admission. A low percentage of deaths were related to procedures and most of them were due to complications of therapeutic measures (Rev Méd Chile 2004; 132: 707-17)
author	Vega S,Jorge Parodi E,María José Puebla A,Claudio
author_facet	Vega S,Jorge Parodi E,María José Puebla A,Claudio
author_sort	Vega S,Jorge
title	Relación entre el motivo de ingreso y la causa de muerte en pacientes fallecidos en un Servicio de Medicina Interna
title_short	Relación entre el motivo de ingreso y la causa de muerte en pacientes fallecidos en un Servicio de Medicina Interna
title_full	Relación entre el motivo de ingreso y la causa de muerte en pacientes fallecidos en un Servicio de Medicina Interna
title_fullStr	Relación entre el motivo de ingreso y la causa de muerte en pacientes fallecidos en un Servicio de Medicina Interna
title_full_unstemmed	Relación entre el motivo de ingreso y la causa de muerte en pacientes fallecidos en un Servicio de Medicina Interna
title_sort	relación entre el motivo de ingreso y la causa de muerte en pacientes fallecidos en un servicio de medicina interna
publisher	Sociedad Médica de Santiago
publishDate	2004
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Relación entre el motivo de ingreso y la causa de muerte en pacientes fallecidos en un Servicio de Medicina Interna

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