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[Characteristics of patients with multiple disease hospitalized in Internal Medicine services]
J L Zambrana García1, M J Velasco Malagón, F Díez García
1Area de Medicina, Hospital Alto Guadalquivir, Andújar, Jaén. jzambrana@ephag.es
Introduction:
Know what proportion of patients hospitalized in the Internal Medicine services have multiple diseases.
Material And Methods:
We analyzed 400 clinical histories of a random sample of patients admitted to 24 Internal Medicine services of Andalusia. We assessed the diagnostic categories present that make it possible to classify patients as having multiple diseases.
Results:
One hundred sixty eight patients (42%) were considered as having multiple diseases. The most prevalent diseases in these patients are cardiological and diabetes mellitus. The two main variables that determine that one is a multiple disease patient are age and disease causing the admission.
Discussion:
A significant percentage of the patients admitted to the Medicine services of the Andalusia public hospitals have multiple diseases.
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