[Incidence of infective diseases at an internal medicine service].
In the clinical records between 1980-1989, there are 3,386 diagnosis of diseases, 34 percent of them were infections, the first great cause of diseases in ten years; the second cause was cardiovascular 16.3%. Infectious disease were localized in urinary tract 19%, Typhoid Fever 15%, pneumonia 11%, tuberculosis 8.5%, cellulitis 8.5%, Viral Hepatitis 8%, Brucellosis 5%, gastrointestinal Tract infections 5% and others 20%. It is necessary improve the epidemiological criteria in the practice of internal medicine, because the elevated numbers of infectious diseases that we are seeing in the Internal Medicina Section.
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Servicio de Medicina, Hospital Nacional Edgardo Rebagliati Martins, IPSS, Lima, Perú.
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Romero
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Saldías
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D003141:Communicable Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology*; D006782:Hospitals, Special; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D007388:Internal Medicine; D010568:Peru
Incidencia de enfermedades infecciosas en un servicio de medicina interna.