Merid, Rodas (2017) Assessment of Pattern and Treatment Outcome of Acute Poisoning in Adult Emergency Departments of Selected Public Referral Hospitals in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Masters thesis, Addis Ababa University.
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Abstract
Background: - Poisoning is a substantial global public health concern. According to data from the World Health Organization (WHO), worldwide, poisonings account for 5-10% of all interventions and more than 3 million poisoning cases with 2, 51,881 deaths occur annually Out of those, 91% occurred in low- and middle-income countries. OBJECTIVE: - To assess the pattern and treatment outcome of acute poisoning among adult patients admitted in Emergency departments of selected public referral Hospital in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. From Jan, 2016 – Jan, 2017. Methodology: - Hospital based, cross-sectional study design was conducted from December to June 2017.A total of 453 acutely poisoned patients were included in the study from Emergency departments of four selected public referral hospitals (St Paul’s specialized hospital, ALERT hospital, Zewditu Memorial hospital and Minillik the second hospital) The collected data was checked for its completeness manually and then entered and analyzed using SPSS window version 20 statistical software package. Bivariate and multivariate logistic regression was done to identify factors that were associated with the final treatment outcome of acute poisoning. The odds ratio with 95% Confidence interval was used to determine the association. A statistical significance was declared at p value<0.05. Result: - Majority of patients were Female (267), frequently observed age group was 14-19 with the mean age of (23.5). Around 367 (81%) lived in urban area, at about 375 (83%) poisoning cases happened at home and most 346(74.7%) of them were intentional in nature. 195(43%) of patients arrived within 1- 6 hours after exposure. GI clinical manifestation was common in majority of cases and the commonest management was GI decontamination which accounts 64(14.1%). Majority of patients were recovered. Conclusion: - acute poisoning is a public health problem which could be highly preventable as a result prevention, early approach and management could decrease a burden in a hospital as well as in a community.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Masters) |
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| Subjects: | R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine |
| Divisions: | Africana |
| Depositing User: | Emmanuel Ndorimana |
| Date Deposited: | 28 Nov 2018 10:58 |
| Last Modified: | 28 Nov 2018 10:58 |
| URI: | http://thesisbank.jhia.ac.ke/id/eprint/7883 |
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