Research on mortality within 24 hours after admission of child from 1 month to 15 years at Central Hospital of Pediatrics
- Author:
Pham Bich Van
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Mortality
- MeSH:
Mortality;
Child
- From:Journal of Vietnamese Medicine
2005;0(3):22-27
- CountryViet Nam
- Language:Vietnamese
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Abstract:
The research was conducted on 213 children from 1 month to 15 years died within 24 hours of admission to the Central Hospital of Pediatrics (CHP) from 1/1/2000 to 30/6/2003 showed that the mortality rate was still high (1.73%). There were some factors affecting to child mortality. Age group 1 month to 12 months accounted 46.01%. The order of the 3 commonest causes of death are respiratory diseases, neurological diseases and infection diseases. The specific causes of death were pneumonia, septicemia, encephalitis, acute encephalitis syndrome. The mortality rate is higher in summer (35.21%), child lived in the countryside over 20km far from the CHP 85,45%. Children were came lately to the hospital, managing themselves at home 55,4%, not managing or managing not correctly 57,28%
