Abstract

PRUDENCIO LEON, Walter Enrique et al. Epidemiology of COPD in Military Hospital. Horiz. Med. [online]. 2014, vol.14, n.3, pp.33-36. ISSN 1727-558X.

Objective: To describe the epidemiological dynamics of hospitalizations for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in a military hospital. Material and Methods: Retrospective observational study of hospitalizations for COPD in a level III-1 military Hospital of Lima-Peru. The analyzed period was from January 1991 to December 2013. The data analysis was performed using STATA V12.1 and ms EXCEL 2013. Results: 1350 medical discharged patients with COPD were registered representing 1.14% of all medical discharges IC95% (0.10% - 1.20%); 58.15% of the patients were males (p=0.001), the average age was 74 years IC95% (73 - 75 years old), (P=0.001), the average hospital stay was 11.3 days IC95% (10.6 - 11.9 days), (P=0.001). Regarding the patient type, according to their status in the hospital 31.41% (424/1350) were military servers and represented 1.32% of all hospitalizations in this population. The COPD mortality was 3.93% IC95% (2.95% - 5.10%) which was higher than our hospital mortality rate from all causes (2.81%). This was statistically significant (p=0.012) odds ratio (OR) 1.4 IC95 % (1.05 - 1.87). Conclusion: The epidemiological profile of the COPD patient hospitalization in our hospital is a male patient, with an average age of more than 65 years, with an average length stay of hospitalizated of 11 days, with a 3.93% rate of mortality in the same hospitalization process. We also note that there is a gap of knowledge on hospital epidemiology of COPD in our country; our study will contribute to the generation of this knowledge.

Keywords : Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; chronic bronchitis; Epidemiology.

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