Mortality in geriatric patients discharged from the Internal Medicine Department of the General Provincial Teaching Hospital of Morón city,year 1999.

Authors

  • María del Rosario Tellería Gil
  • Rubén Cabrera Compte
  • Sergio Inerto Trujillo Hernández

Keywords:

AGED, MORTALITY

Abstract

A  descriptive observational investigation was performed in order to analize some of the variables related with the mortality in elderly patients at the Internal Medicine Service of the General Provincial Teaching Hospital of Morón city, 1999. Brochopneumonia and cerebro-vascular accidents have been the most frequent causes of death in all age groups. Necropsy was performed to 65.2% of the patients. Brochopneumonia and severe ahortic atheromatosis, provailing as the anatomopathologic diagnoses in all age groups. There was a clinical pathological correlation in 77.9% of the examined patients.

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Author Biographies

María del Rosario Tellería Gil

Especialista de Primer Grado en Medicina Interna.  Profesor Asistente

Rubén Cabrera Compte

Especialista de Primer Grado en Medicina Interna.  Intensivista.  Profesor Asistente

Sergio Inerto Trujillo Hernández

Residente de Medicina Interna.

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Tellería Gil M del R, Cabrera Compte R, Trujillo Hernández SI. Mortality in geriatric patients discharged from the Internal Medicine Department of the General Provincial Teaching Hospital of Morón city,year 1999. Mediciego [Internet]. 2001 Jul. 10 [cited 2025 Dec. 8];7(2). Available from: https://revmediciego.sld.cu/index.php/mediciego/article/view/2642

Issue

Vol. 7 No. 2 (2001)

Section

Original article

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