Wasim Ahmed, Zaheer, Ishtiaq Ahmed.
Pattern of Hospital Admissions in Surgical Ward at Al-Nafees Medical College & Hospital.
Isra Med J Jan ;9(3):135-40.

OBJECTIVE: To see the frequency of the different diseases among patients admitted to surgical ward of the hospital. STUDY DESIGN: A Retrospective observational study. PLACE AND DURATION: At Department of Surgery Al-Nafees Medical College & Hospital Islamabad during the duration of six months st th i.e. from 1 January 2016 to 30 June 2016. METHODOLOGY: During the study period data of all the patients admitted in male and female surgical wards were evaluated through hospital record. On a structured Performa, patients age, gender and diagnosis was recorded. Patients result were evaluated statistically at the end. RESULTS: Among the total 512 admissions 52% were female and 48% were male. Patients with soft tissue Pathologies were highest (23-63) followed by Hepato-biliary (21.48%) and Urology disease (13.87%) only 2.15% of the patients were admitted with vascular pathologies and 1.95% with upper GIT Pathologies. The more frequent diseases from all subspecialist were Cholelithiasis (19.92%), appendicitis (7.42%), soft tissue infections (7.62%), Lipoma (6.25%), Renal stone (4.69%), multi nodular goiter (4.3%) and Inguinal Hernia (3.71%). CONCLUSION: Our study shows that most of hospital admission in surgical ward are with gallstone disease, hernia, soft tissue pathologies, renal stone and goiter which cover almost more than half of the burden of total admissions are more common among population dependent on our hospital.

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