title: Mortality in the Department of Surgery, Alor Setar Hospital.
abstract: This is a retrospective study of the annual mortality that occurred in the Department of Surgery, Alor Setar Hospital, for the years 1995 to 1997. This study looks at the number of admissions to the surgical wards and categorizes the causes of death. The annual mortality rates were 2.60, 2.89 and 3.25 per hundred admissions for the year 1995, 1996 and 1997 respectively. Head injury was the leading cause of death whilst sepsis and advanced malignancies second and third commonest causes. We hope that with the publication of these figures, we can initiate more studies to analyse similar local data.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Alor Setar Hospital, 05100 Alor Setar.
authors.forename: T M
authors.initials: TM
authors.lastname: Lim
authors.forename: R R
authors.initials: RR
authors.lastname: Naidu
mesh_terms: D002423:Cause of Death; D017052:Hospital Mortality; D006801:Humans; D008296:Malaysia / Q000453:epidemiology; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D013503:Surgery Department, Hospital / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*