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2152221

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
6
pubmed:dateCreated
1992-12-2
pubmed:abstractText
As an approach to measurement of the importance of chronic diseases in childhood, type and frequency of diagnoses in children admitted to the pediatric wards of a general metropolitan hospital at Santiago, Chile, were reviewed and recorded along hospitalization and at the time of discharge from March 1 through June 30, 1989 (n: 426). Newborns were excluded. Main problems of the study were lacks of uniform national criteria to define chronic illness and of modern technology to certify diagnoses. Ninety five hospital discharged children (23.3%) were considered to have a definitive, confirmed chronic disease (CCD), other 51 (12%) were cases of possibly chronic disease (PCD) while the remainder were thought to be carriers of acute illness. Among 146 patients taken as CCD or PCD cases, 126 (87.7%) were considered to have single organic system diseases as defined by areas of medical interest or specialty; other 3 cases (8.9%) had two affected systems and 5 children (3.4%) had three or more involved systems. More frequently affected systems (in number of cases) and their corresponding proportions of CCD were as follows: neurologic (31 cases and 58.1% CCD), oncohematologic (28 cases and 96.4% CCD) and gastrointestinal (26 cases and 26.9% CCD). More extensive studies, covering other medical care providing settings are desirable and necessary to measure the magnitude and features of chronic disease entities in chilean childhood.
pubmed:language
spa
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
0370-4106
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
61
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
337-41
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:articleTitle
[Chronic diseases in childhood: an approximate measurement of their impact].
pubmed:affiliation
Departamento de Salud Pública, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Chile.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, English Abstract