title: [Hospital mortality at the internal medicine service of a local hospital].
abstract: We conducted a retrospective study of the hospital mortality in a service of Internal Medicine at the Hospital de Barbastro during the years 1991 and 1992, recording 97 deaths during 1991 and 87 during 1992, with a mortality rate of 6.7% and 6.6% respectively. The mean age was 77.2% +/- 9 years with a 93% > or = 65 years. The average length of stay of the dead patients was 8.9 days. Cardiovascular diseases were the most frequent cause of death (41.85%), followed by respiratory diseases (17.93%) and neoplasias (15.76%). CVA was the single most frequent disease (17.9%). Ten autopsies (5.4%) were performed. In 16 cases (8.6%), we obtained data suggesting iatrogenesis, which in 7 cases (3.8%) clearly contributed to the direct cause of death.
authors.affiliation: Servicio de Medicina Interna, Hospital Comarcal de Barbastro, Huesca.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: De Escalante Yangüela
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Oncins Torres
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lacasa Marzo
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Candel Calderón
authors.forename: J A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Sampedro Feliu
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D005260:Female; D006748:Hospital Departments; D017052:Hospital Mortality; D006801:Humans; D007388:Internal Medicine; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012189:Retrospective Studies
vernacular_title: Estudio de mortalidad hospitalaria en el Servicio de Medicina Interna de un hospital comarcal.