Research Article
Clinical Conditions of Hospitalized Older Adult Patients and Their Outcomes in a Regional Referral Hospital in Southwestern Uganda
Table 5
Antecedent causes of death among older adult patients at MRRH.
| | Diagnosis made | Died, n (%) |
| | Stroke | 30 (15.2) | | Cancer | 21 (10.7) | | Head injury | 16 (8.1) | | Heart failure | 14 (7.1) | | Sepsis | 14 (7.1) | | Renal disease | 12 (6.1) | | Pneumonia | 9 (4.6) | | Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease | 8 (4.1) | | Diabetes | 7 (3.6) | | Gastric outlet obstruction | 5 (2.5) | | Meningitis | 5 (2.5) | | Gangrene | 4 (2.0) | | Intestinal obstruction | 4 (2.0) | | Severe malaria | 4 (2.0) | | Alcohol intoxication | 3 (1.5) | | Fractures | 3 (1.5) | | Peritonitis | 3 (1.5) | | Dysentry | 2 (1.0) | | Gastroenteritis | 2 (1.0) | | Metabolic encephalopathy | 2 (1.0) | | Oesophageal stricture | 2 (1.0) | | Others | 27 (13.7) | | Total | 197 (100) |
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