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Table 2 Casualty room and emergency department mortality rates

From: Trends in mortality associated with opening of a full-capacity public emergency department at the main tertiary-level hospital in Tanzania

 

Casualty room

Emergency departmenta

 

Jan. 2008 to Dec. 2009

Feb. 2010 to Jan. 2012

Total number of deaths

185

568

Total number of patients

53,660

77,164

Mortality rate (95 % CI)

0.34 % (0.25–0.35 %)

0.74 % (0.68–0.80 %)

  1. aThe month of January 2010 was excluded and the month of January 2012 was included to make an analysis of 24 complete months