Adolescent profile: hospital record based study

A discharge case record (ICD-10) based retrospective study for a calendar year was carried out in one of the biggest tertiary care hospitals of Delhi, India. Of 5856 adolescent admissions, 53.77% were males and 46.22% were females. The respective proportion of adolescent admission and death recorded was 7.5% and 5.2%. The average monthly adolescent admissions were 488 (range: 304-648), and 47% of admissions happened through the emergency department. The outcome was 5499 (93.9%) adolescents were discharged alive, and 353 (6.02%) died during hospital stay. The average loss for adolescents was 6.8 days. The top three causes of morbidity were injuries (12.70%), burns (6.18%), or nonspecific signs and symptoms (5.51%), With regard to mortality, of 353 adolescent deaths recorded, the leading causes were 123 (34.84%) burns, 29 (8.21%) injuries, and 22 (6.23%) tuberculosis.