V Monge1, A González. 1. Preventive Medicine, Hospital Ramón y Cajal, University of Alcalá, Madrid, Spain. vmonge@hrc.insalud.es
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Hospital-based surveillance study to estimate the burden of hospitalizations due to pneumonia in Spain. PATIENTS AND METHODS: The national surveillance system for hospital data (Conjunto Mínimo de Datos, CMBD) maintained by the Ministry of Health was used to obtain information concerning hospital discharges for pneumonia for the period January 1, 1995 to December 31, 1996. RESULTS: There were 109,644 hospitalizations for pneumonia during this period. For the years 1995 and 1996 the incidence of hospitalizations for pneumonia was 162 and 189 cases per 100,000 population, respectively. Persons > or = 65 years accounted for 49.5% of cases. The average length of stay in hospital was 11.2 days and the case-fatality rate was 7.4%. CONCLUSION: Each year more than 50,000 persons were hospitalized for pneumonia and approximately 4,000 died.
BACKGROUND: Hospital-based surveillance study to estimate the burden of hospitalizations due to pneumonia in Spain. PATIENTS AND METHODS: The national surveillance system for hospital data (Conjunto Mínimo de Datos, CMBD) maintained by the Ministry of Health was used to obtain information concerning hospital discharges for pneumonia for the period January 1, 1995 to December 31, 1996. RESULTS: There were 109,644 hospitalizations for pneumonia during this period. For the years 1995 and 1996 the incidence of hospitalizations for pneumonia was 162 and 189 cases per 100,000 population, respectively. Persons > or = 65 years accounted for 49.5% of cases. The average length of stay in hospital was 11.2 days and the case-fatality rate was 7.4%. CONCLUSION: Each year more than 50,000 persons were hospitalized for pneumonia and approximately 4,000 died.
Authors: Harish Nair; Eric Af Simões; Igor Rudan; Bradford D Gessner; Eduardo Azziz-Baumgartner; Jian Shayne F Zhang; Daniel R Feikin; Grant A Mackenzie; Jennifer C Moiïsi; Anna Roca; Henry C Baggett; Syed Ma Zaman; Rosalyn J Singleton; Marilla G Lucero; Aruna Chandran; Angela Gentile; Cheryl Cohen; Anand Krishnan; Zulfiqar A Bhutta; Adriano Arguedas; Alexey Wilfrido Clara; Ana Lucia Andrade; Maurice Ope; Raúl Oscar Ruvinsky; María Hortal; John P McCracken; Shabir A Madhi; Nigel Bruce; Shamim A Qazi; Saul S Morris; Shams El Arifeen; Martin W Weber; J Anthony G Scott; W Abdullah Brooks; Robert F Breiman; Harry Campbell Journal: Lancet Date: 2013-01-29 Impact factor: 79.321