Open AccessStanding at the edge of mortality; Five-year audit of an emergency department of a tertiary care hospital in a low resource setup
Author(s) -
Sama Mukhtar,
Syed Ghazanfar Saleem,
Syed Asif Ali,
Sarfaraz Ahmed Khatri,
Anna Q Yaffee
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
pakistan journal of medical sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.316
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 1682-024X
pISSN - 1681-715X
DOI - 10.12669/pjms.37.3.3680
Subject(s) - medicine , audit , tertiary care , emergency department , emergency medicine , medical emergency , resource (disambiguation) , nursing , accounting , computer network , computer science , business
Understanding the demographics of mortality and its burden in the emergency department of a tertiary care setup can lead to better planning and allocation of resources to streamline process flow. This can be achieved systematically through mortality audit that can identify the loopholes and areas of improvement. Our objective was to characterize the epidemiology of ED mortality in a tertiary care hospital of Karachi, Pakistan.