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Table 3 All-cause, emergency center, and inpatient mortality stratified by time period

From: Emergency medicine matters: epidemiology of medical pathology and changes in patient outcomes after implementation of a post-graduate training program at a Tertiary Teaching Hospital in Kigali, Rwanda

All-cause mortality

Pre-residency (N = 929)

Post-residency

implementation (N = 775)

Chi2

Overall

170 (19.9)

97 (14.0)

0.002

Gastrointestinal

29 (12.8)

18 (9.9)

0.4

Infectious disease

37 (30.0)

23 (22.1)

0.2

Neurologic

24 (24.0)

12 (12.1)

0.3

Cardiovascular

18 (25.4)

9 (18.4)

0.4

Cancer

23 (32.4)

17 (42.5)

0.3

Pulmonary

14 (22.6)

7 (13.2)

0.2

EC mortality

 Overall

86 (10.0)

10 (1.4)

< 0.0001

 Gastrointestinal

14 (6.2)

1 (0.6)

0.003

 Infectious disease

19 (15.5)

5 (4.8)

0.009

 Neurologic

15 (14.9)

0 (0)

0.001

 Cardiovascular

12 (16.9)

1 (2.0)

0.009

 Cancer

5 (8.1)

1 (1.9)

0.1

 Pulmonary

5 (6.9)

2 (5.0)

0.7

Inpatient mortalitya

N = 522

N = 539

 

 Overall

84 (16.1)

87 (16.1)

1.0

 Gastrointestinal

15 (10.9)

17 (12.0)

0.8

 Infectious disease

18 (22.5)

18 (24.3)

0.8

 Neurologic

9 (15.3)

12 (21.1)

0.4

 Pulmonary

9 (36.0)

6 (16.7)

0.1

 Cardiovascular

6 (14.6)

8 (18.2)

0.7

 Urologic or renal

3 (9.1)

5 (12.5)

0.6

  1. aIncidence of inpatient mortality calculated from amongst those admitted