Sarcouncil Journal of Medical Sciences

Abstract: Background: People are sent to the hospital for many reasons, not just for serious operations or treating life-threatening emergencies. There are several types of hospitalization and hospital admission for inpatient management Investigating the causes of hospitalization of patients in the west of Iraq can be helpful for healthcare programmers in scheduling a healthy and joyful and reducing their mortality and morbidity. Objectives: To compare between different causes of admission among hospitalized patients in a secondary health care in Iraq. Methods: A cross sectional study was carried out on patients admitted to al_amiriyah general hospital, during the period between 1st January to 1st July 2023. A total of 3357 patients, 2131 female and 1226 male who was admitted constituted the study group. Results: There were (63.47%) female’s patients and (36.53%) male’s patients. The prevalence of various causes of admission in this study was: Gynecology and obstetrics (36.99%) of the patients, General Surgery (34.82%) of the patients., Pediatric and neonate (24.81%) of the patients and Internal Medicine and hemodialysis (3.38%) of the patients. Conclusions: The admission rate is high in our hospital. The average length of hospitalization was 2 days. Percentageof the admission were higher in rural population than in urban one. Most of the patients were admitted for surgical purpose. The Gynecology and obstetrics disease was the leading causes of admission fallowed by different surgical disease