title: Disease pattern and fatality among patients treated at DHQ Hospital, Faisalabad.
abstract: A pilot study was undertaken to assess the pattern of diseases, fatality and some other ratios among the patients treated at District Headquarters Hospital, Faisalabad during 1984. Out of 4,506 in-patients, maximum admissions 1,196 (26.54%) were of gastrointestinal diseases followed by 795 (17.64%) cases of injuries. Overall fatality was found to be 6.35%. The highest case fatality was found in the infectious diseases group, while maximum of the total deaths (20.98%) occurred due to injuries. Consistency in provisional and final diagnosis was found in 86.20% of total cases. The annual turnover was 41 patients per bed per year.
authors.affiliation: PMRC Research Centre, Punjab Medical College, Faisalabad.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Parvez
authors.forename: N A
authors.initials: NA
authors.lastname: Chaudhary
authors.forename: F M
authors.initials: FM
authors.lastname: Chaudhary
authors.forename: M Z
authors.initials: MZ
authors.lastname: Malik
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D017052:Hospital Mortality; D006767:Hospitals, District; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D008297:Male; D009017:Morbidity; D010154:Pakistan; D010865:Pilot Projects