Hospital Mortality in San Felipe Hospital, Year 2010

Abstract

This investigation focus in the analysis of the causes of hospital death in 2010 in the San Felipe Hospital, the national referral hospital health system with appointment in the city of Tegucigalpa, Honduras with the objective to improve the planning of health care. The data indicate cancer as the leading cause of death in hospital, so that to summarize all causes, representing 63.5%, more than half of the cases tested. By origin the Department of Francisco Morazán, representing more than half of the cases reviewed (60.19%). The distribution of hospital mortality by sex, in the case of females is 55.33% and in the case of men corresponds to 44.67%. The age range in which these deaths occur is 0.5 days to 91 years. The mean age of the group was 61.9 years.

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5377/pdac.v8i0.920

Revista Población y Desarrollo: Argonautas y Caminantes, Vol. 8, 2012 pp.77-80