Epidemiological profile of acute respiratory infections in hospitalized adults.

Abstract

Introduction: Acute respiratory diseases are one of the pathologies of high prevalence in patients hospitalized in clinical areas and entails high public and social expenditure.

Objective: Describe the epidemiological aspects of acute respiratory diseases in patients over 18 years of age admitted to the clinical area of Ambato General Hospital.

Material and methods: Retrospective, descriptive study based on the review of medical records of patients admitted to General Ambato Hospital between January 2017 to June2017.

Results: Acute respiratory diseases account for 16% of hospitalizations, exacerbated/overinfected Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease occurred in 43% of patients followed by community-associated pneumonia 23%, male 54.3%, the average age was 73.3 years, 27.2% of patients had smoking habit, 87.5% of cases hadsome type of comorbidity associated with the diagnosis of admission, mortality reached 9%.

Conclusion: Acute respiratory diseases account for 16% of causes of hospitalization in clinical areas, exacerbated/overinfected COPD along with community pneumoniaare the most prevalent pathologies in this group of patients.