J Korean Pediatr Soc.  1980 May;23(5):348-357.

Statistical Observation for Pediatric Inpatients: Second report statistically analyzed for the patients admitted to the pediatric department of 24 hospitals in Korea

• Sohn KC
• Doh KC
• Kim YK
• oh E
• Lee SY
• Lee SK
• Lee DB

Abstract

This is the clinical statistics concerning the admitted patients observed in the pediatric department of 24 university hospitals and general training hospitals in Korea during the past 3 years from Jan. 1976 to Dec. 1978.All the patients were classified by year and disease according to international classification of disease by W.H.O.(1965 Revision). The results obtained were as follows: 1. Total number of patients during 3 years were 64,864, of which 18,085 were in 1976,22,084 in 1977 and 24,693 in 1978 with about 10% increment every year. 2. Infectious and parasitic disease were the most frequent, 20,737 cases(31.97%) followed by respiratory tract disease,15,917 cases(24.54%) and neonatal disease, 6,388 cases(11.44%) 3. Ten major leading causes of hospitalization were pneumonia(12.7%),diarrheal disease (9.4%), hyperbilirubinemia and postmaturity, upper respiratkory tract infection, immaturity acute bronchitis and bronchiolitis, infectious hepatitis, nephritis,convulsion, and intestinal obstruction in the order of frequency

MeSH Terms

Bronchiolitis
Bronchitis
Classification
Hepatitis A
Hospitalization
Hospitals, University
Humans
Hyperbilirubinemia
Inpatients*
Intestinal Obstruction
Korea*
Parasitic Diseases
Respiratory System