| Autor: |
Clement T Narh, Joyce B Der, Maxwell Afetor, Emmanuel Harris |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Rok vydání: |
2023 |
| Předmět: |
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| Zdroj: |
BMJ Open, Vol 13, Iss 5 (2023) |
| Druh dokumentu: |
article |
| ISSN: |
2044-6055 |
| DOI: |
10.1136/bmjopen-2022-066457 |
| Popis: |
Objective Hospitalisation for hypertension continues to rise in Ghana. It has been revealed that in Ghana, patients hospitalised for hypertension spend between 1 and 91 days on admission. This study therefore sought to estimate the hospital length of stay (LoS) of hypertensive patients and individual or health-related factors that may influence the hospitalisation duration in Ghana.Methods We employed a retrospective study design that used routinely collected health data on hospitalised hypertensive patients in Ghana from the District Health Information Management System database between 2012 and 2017 to model LoS using survival analysis. The cumulative incidence function for discharge stratified by sex was computed. To investigate the factors that influence hospitalisation duration, multivariable Cox regression was used.Results Out of a total of 106 372 hypertension admissions, about 72 581 (68.2%) were women. The mean age of the patients was 55.3 (SD=17.5) years. Overall, the median LoS was 3 days with almost 90% of all patients being discharged by the 10th day of admission. Patients admitted in Volta region (HR: 0.89, p |
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