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Table 4 Top 5 specific diagnoses within the top 6 diagnosis categories.

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

Gastrointestinal

Infectious disease

Neurologic

Intestinal obstruction (20.7%)

Malaria (29.8%)

Stroke (ischemic or hemorrhagic) (32.9%)

Gastritis/gastric ulcer (13.4%)

Tuberculosis (27.7%)

Meningitis/encephalitis (15.1%)

Acute abdomen/peritonitis (12.3%)

HIV/AIDS-related illness (20.8%)

Headache (13.5%)

Hernia (8.2%)

Sepsis (unknown source) (9.4%)

Seizure (7.8%)

Cirrhosis (5.5%)

Other (3.8%)

Other (7.3%)

Pulmonary

Cardiovascular

Urologic/renal

Asthma/COPD (41.5%)

Acute heart failure (34.2%)

Chronic kidney failure with

acute exacerbation (21.7%)

Pneumonia (28.9%)

Hypertension/hypertensive emergency (33.3%)

Urinary tract infection (20.0%)

Pulmonary effusion (8.9%)

Dilated cardiomyopathy (10.3%)

Acute kidney injury (10.0%)

Pulmonary embolism (5.2%)

Valvular disease (5.1%)

Benign prostatic hypertrophy (7.5%)

Other (5.2%)

Other (4.3%)

Other (7.5%)