Illness and efficiency of health services delivery in a district hospital

dc.contributor.author	Einterz, R M
dc.contributor.author	Goss, J R
dc.contributor.author	Kelley, S
dc.contributor.author	Lore, W
dc.date.accessioned	2013-06-07T11:51:28Z
dc.date.available	2013-06-07T11:51:28Z
dc.date.issued	1992-05
dc.identifier.citation	East Afr Med J. 1992 May;69(5):248-53.	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1644042
dc.identifier.uri	http://erepository.uonbi.ac.ke:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/30027
dc.description.abstract	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.	en
dc.language.iso	en	en
dc.publisher	Univesity of Nairobi	en
dc.title	Illness and efficiency of health services delivery in a district hospital	en
dc.type	Article	en
local.publisher	Department of Medicine	en