Mortality with necropsic verification at the Emergency Service of the «Hospital Joaquín Albarrán»

Authors

  • Isnerio Arzuaga Ánderson
  • Laynes Savón Martín
  • Daisy Ferrer Marrero
  • Digna Chávez Jiménez
  • Lourdes Palma Machado
  • Cristian E. Pilco Allauca
  • Cindy P. Mejía Rojas
  • Lourdes V. Tenelema Chinlli

Abstract

Introduction: The importance of the autopsy is recognized as a quality audit of diagnoses.

Objective: To describe the characteristics of mortality with necropsic verification at the Emergency Service of the «Hospital Joaquín Albarrán», considering the relationship of diagnostic coincidence of the direct and basic causes of death.

Method: A retrospective longitudinal descriptive observational study was conducted during a semester. Autopsies’ protocols and clinical histories were reviewed, demographic data were analyzed, as well as clinical diagnoses, of autopsy, and their coincidence. The Microsoft Excel programs and the EPI-Info statistical system were used.

Results: In the second semester of 2016, 331 patients died in this hospital, 117 of them at the Emergency Service and 95 (28.7%) underwent clinical autopsy. There was a predominance of males, between 60 and 69 years of age, in the Emergency Intensive Care Unit. The acute myocardial infarction was the most frequent direct cause of death, being the atherosclerotic disease, the basic cause.

Conclusions: There exist diagnostic quality problems. There is reaffirmed the importance of the autopsy as a source of information that is transmitted to health statistics and as an audit resource in the primary health care.

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Published

2017-07-20

How to Cite

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Arzuaga Ánderson I, Savón Martín L, Ferrer Marrero D, Chávez Jiménez D, Palma Machado L, Pilco Allauca CE, et al. Mortality with necropsic verification at the Emergency Service of the «Hospital Joaquín Albarrán». CorSalud [Internet]. 2017 Jul. 20 [cited 2025 Jul. 2];9(3):148-54. Available from: https://revcorsalud.sld.cu/index.php/cors/article/view/248

Issue

Vol. 9 No. 3 (2017)

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ORIGINAL ARTICLES

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