ArticleBMC research notes2019
Audit of surgical services in a teaching hospital in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
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- Epidemiology and causes of intestinal obstruction in Ethiopia: A systematic review.SAGE open medicine · 2022Article
- Magnitude of post-operative mortality and associated factors among patients who underwent surgery in Wolaita Sodo teaching and referral hospital, SNNPR region, Ethiopia.African health sciences · 2021Article
- Root causes of elective surgical case cancellation in Ethiopia: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Patient safety in surgery · 2020Article
- Pattern and outcome of perforated peptic ulcer disease patient in four teaching hospitals in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: a prospective cohort multicenter study.BMC surgery · 2020Article
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Abstract
objectiveThe aim of the study is descriptively analyze services in terms of surgical care, performance and outcome in department of surgery of ZMH which is a university affiliated general hospital in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Data on mode of admission, procedures done and outcome were collected from a monthly audit report, patients file. Information on the number of operating days missed and patients cancelled after being scheduled for surgery were collected from OR logo book.
resultEmergency operations constitute 57.4% of all operations. Appendectomy is the commonest emergency operation accounting for 41.5%. Thyroid and gallbladder surgeries were the most common elective operations accounting for 23.5% and 22% respectively. There were 26 and 2 deaths from the emergency and elective operations making the postoperative mortality rate of 2.8% and 0.02% respectively. The average hospital stay of a patient is 3.74 days. 23 of 211 (14.7%) operation dates were missed for various reasons. 81 of 693 (11.7%) elective operations were not done the first time they were scheduled. In conclusion this study showed emergency surgery out number elective surgeries, unacceptably high number of operation days are missed and scheduled surgeries are cancelled.
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