Illness and efficiency of health services delivery in a district hospital
Date
1992-05Author
Einterz, R M
Goss, J R
Kelley, S
Lore, W
Type
ArticleLanguage
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Demographic data, medical problems and diagnosis, and efficiency of laboratory investigations and drug administration were evaluated in all patients admitted to an adult medical ward over a one month period at a district hospital in Kenya. The results show that the medical ward serves a poor, cosmopolitan population in the economically productive age range. Mental disorders (16%), symptoms and ill-defined conditions (16%), and infective and parasitic disease (15%) were the most common diagnoses. Out of 999 orders and/or results, 357 were delayed, interrupted, never done, or never received. Factors that affect medical education and efficiency of health services delivery at a district hospital are identified and discussed.
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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1644042http://erepository.uonbi.ac.ke:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/30027
Citation
East Afr Med J. 1992 May;69(5):248-53.Publisher
Univesity of Nairobi Department of Medicine
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- Faculty of Health Sciences (FHS) [10377]