Title: Clinico-Social Study of Dengue Cases Admitted in Government Tertiary Hospital
Authors: Rupali R Rajput, Rohan G. Bembre, Santosh J. Haralkar
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.18535/jmscr/v6i6.47
Abstract
In many parts of the world, the incidence of dengue has grown dramatically around the world in recent decades. The actual numbers of dengue cases are underreported and many cases are misclassified. One recent estimate indicates 390 million dengue infections per year, of which 96 million (67–136 million) manifest clinically.
Objectives:1)To study clinical profile of dengue cases. 2) To study sociodemographic factors factors of dengue cases.3)To study outcome of dengue cases.
Materials and Methodology: Type of study: Hospital record based descriptive study. Duration of study: July2014 –Oct 2014. Statistical analysis is with rate, proportion and chi-square test.
Results: In present study, out of 74 cases, dengue fever cases were seen more prevalent in males (66.66%) as compare to female. Out of total 74 cases, in above mentioned period, 66% were cured, 21% relieved and 6% cases reported dead. Cured rate was high when patients contacted the health facility within first 1-10 days of illness.
Conclusion: The study is a Clinico-social findings of dengue cases admitted in hospital. In this study most of the affected persons were from young age group and from rural area. Patients came with main complains of fever and main complication seen among them was thrombocytopenia.
Keywords: Sociodemographic, dengue cases, clinicosocial.
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