Original scientific paper
Cerebrovascular Insult Hospital Cases in the Clinical Hospital Mostar (Bosnia and Herzegovina) From 1999 to 2003 – An Example of an Institutional Register
Ivan Vasilj
Semra Čavaljuga
Pavao Petrović
Ljerka Ostojić
Zdenko Ostojić
Ante Kvesić
Vlatka Martinović
Abstract
The analysis of a cerebro-vascular insult hospitalized cases in the Clinical Hospital Mostar as a retrospective epidemiological
study was done in the Clinical Hospital Mostar for the period from 1999 to 2003. The major source of data
was medical documentation of this hospital (an institutional register), the only hospital for the treatments of 457,491 inhabitants
who gravitate by a health insurance for the treatment in this hospital. The study included a total of 1,555
cerebro-vascular insult cases treated in the Clinical Hospital Mostar. Among them 727 (46.8%) were male patients, while
828 (53.2%) cases were female. The majority of the cases were above 50 years of life. Majority of treated female patients
were older than 61 (45.6% of all cases), as well as among male patients (31.3%). The least number of cases was under 41
years in both groups (1.2%). Prevalence of risk factors was 2,035 cases (74%). During the same period risk factors research
for entire Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (FBiH) was performed on the sample of 2,750 national insurance holders,
out of which 852 gravitate for treatment in CB Mostar. Out of them 1.7% was found to suffer of cerebro vascular insult.
Keywords
cerebro-vascular insult; hospital morbidity and lethality; Clinical Hospital Mostar
Hrčak ID:
27601
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Publication date:
12.5.2006.
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