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    One year Retrospective Review of Disease Patterns and Clinical outcomes of Patients Admitted in Intensive care units of Armed Force General Teaching Hospital in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
    (Addis Ababa University, 2014-12) Haile, Samuel; W/Tsadik, Assefu (PhD)
    Background The intensive care unit (ICU) is a health caredelivery service for patients who are very sick Withpotentially recoverablediseases. Theycan benefit from more detailed observation, Monitoring and treatment than is generallyavailable in the standard lying-in ward ordepartment. Objective: To asses disease pattern and outcome of admissions into the ICU of Armed Force Teaching Hospital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Methods A one-year retrospective study will be conducted from January 1, 2013 to December 30, 2014. The study will be carried out in February 2015 consisted of looking at the master registry and daily records of patients admitted in the intensive care unit of Armed Force General Teaching Hospital. The case report will also be examined. A record of the patients demographic characteristics, duration of stay in the ICU, and pattern of morbidity and mortality will be made. The data will be presented as frequency (%) or mean and histograms. Categorical data will be analysed using the chi square test where appropriate. Result During the study period 280 patients were admitted to ICU. Male patient compromised the majority of the study population. Male to female ratio of 3: 1 the mean age of the study population was 30 years with interquartile range of 21-35 years. Discussion In this study disease characteristics and mortality rate of patients admitted in ICU of AFGH hospital shows TBI had the major admission accounts for 25( 8.9%),the second most admission is DKA,18(6.3%)from these patient transferred to ward is 16(88.9%),and, the third commonest admission is MI 17(6.1%). Conclusion and Recommendation In this study TBI was the most frequent admission diagnosis for all age group accounting for 25(8.9%),followed by DKA which is responsible for 12(12.9%)admissions and concerning the outcome of the patient admitted to ICU death accounts for 82(29.3%).