Morbimortality in the Seriously-ill Attention Units at the Teaching Military Hospital of Matanzas in 2005

Abstract

The study of the morbidity and mortality is one of the reliable and necessary indicators to analyze the sanitary status of an institution, and a data source to satisfy a wide covering allowing defining strategies of health actions over a population. After creating the Seriously-ill Attention Units, it is necessary to study these indicators to act on the quality of the medical care. Our objective was defining the main causes of morbimortality in the Seriously-ill Attention Units of the Military Hospital of Matanzas, and defining treatment strategies in the service. We reviewed the medical records of the patients admitted in the service, and the necropsy protocols of those deceased in the Military Hospital during the period January- December 2005. We established the relations followed in the treatment protocols. We made the statistical analysis and the protocols propositions for the service. There were admitted 587 patients, with a predomination of the male sex and hearth diseases. From the total of deceases, bronchopneumonia was diagnosed to 41 patients (56.16 %). The prevailing age group was the 60-and more-years-old group, with 30 patients (73 %). The female sex had the biggest incidence with 25 patients (60.9 %). The most frequently decease cause, associated with bronchopneumonia, was the generalized atherosclerosis with 14 patients (34.14 %). Bronchopneumonia was the decease direct cause of 21 patients. The service where more patients died was the Polyvalent Intermediate Care Unit, with 29 patients.