Chapter IV

PRESENTATION, ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION OF DATA

            This chapter represents the data gathered from the major hospitals within General Santos City. It discusses the analyses and interpretation of the data gathered.

            As shown in tables 1 to 5 in the following pages, data about the death-causing diseases have been obtained from the major hospitals namely General Santos Doctors Hospital, St. Elizabeth Hospital, Mindanao Medical Center, R.O. Diagan Cooperative Hospital, District Hospital and Socsargen County Hospital.

 

DATA ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION

Table 1 on page 25 shows the leading death-causing diseases of General Santos City Doctors Hospital as recorded in the year 2004. The leading-death-causing disease is pneumonia comprising 9.8% of the total hospital death cases with the total of 25 deaths, 13 male and 12 female, majority of which falls in the age range from 45 years old and above, followed by Sepsis comprising 8.2 % of the total hospital deaths with 21 deaths, 13 males and 8 females and lastly, Neonatal Sepsis comprising 3.5 % of the total hospital death cases with 9 deaths, 6 males and 3 females.

Table 2 on page 25 shows the leading death-causing diseases of St. Elizabeth Hospital as recorded in the year 2004. The leading death-causing disease is Pneumonia comprising 13.7% of the total hospital death cases with a total of 42 deaths, 26 of which being males and 16 females it is followed by hypertension which comprises 9.6% of the total hospital death cases with a total of 29 deaths, 26 of which are males and 3 female cases. The third leading death-causing disease is Neonatal Sepsis comprising 3.3% of the total hospital death cases with a total of 10 deaths 7 of which are males and 3 females with age range below 1 year old. Majority of the deaths both in Pneumonia and Hypertension fall within the age range of 20 years old and above while the Neonatal Sepsis falls in the age below 1 year old.

 Table 3 on page 25 shows the leading death-causing diseases of Mindanao Medical Center as recorded in the year 2004. The leading death-causing disease is Pneumonia comprising 13.8% of the total hospital cases with the total of 11 deaths, 7 males and 4 females majority of which falls in the range from 45 years old and above, followed by Hypertension comprising 7.5% of the total hospital death cases, with 6 deaths 5 of them are males and 1 female. The third one is Sepsis which compromises 3.8% of the total number of hospital cases with a total of 3 deaths, 2 of them are males and 1 female.

Table 4 on page 26 shows the leading death-causing disease of Socsargen Hospital as recorded in the year 2004. The leading death-causing disease is Pneumonia comprising 3.6% of the total hospital death cases with the total of 8 deaths, 6 males and 2 females. Majority of which falls in the range from 45 years old and above, followed by Sepsis comprising 2.2% of the total with 5 deaths, 3 males and 2 females. Majority of patients died in the age of 45 years old and above. Lastly, Heart Failure which compromises 1.8% of total hospital death cases with a total of 4 deaths, 3 of them are males and 1 female.

Table 5 on page 26 shows the leading death-causing disease of District Hospital as recorded in the year 2004. The leading death-causing disease is PTB or Pulmonary Tuberculosis comprising 10% of the total hospital death cases with the total of 16 deaths, 11 males and 5 females, majority of which falls in the age range from 20 years old and above, followed by Pneumonia comprising 9% of the total with 15 deaths, 8 male and 7 female majority in the age range of 20 years old and above and lastly, Neonatal sepsis with a rate of 8% of the total hospital death cases with 12 deaths, all occurring in the age range below 1 year old.

Table 6 on page 26 shows the leading death-causing disease of R.O Diagan Cooperative Hospital as recorded in the year 2004. The leading death-causing disease is Pneumonia comprising 18.2% of the total hospital cases with the total of 12 deaths, 5 males and 7 females. Majority of which falls in the range from below 1 year and above, followed by Hypertension comprising 12.2 % of the total with 8 deaths, 6 male and 2 females all occurring in the age range below 1 year old, lastly comes neonatal sepsis comprising 9.1 % of the total hospital deaths with 6 deaths, 5 male, and 1 female in the age range of 1 year old below.

Table 7 on page 27 shows the overall leading death-causing diseases of General Santos City as recorded in the year 2004. The leading death-causing disease is Pneumonia comprising 11.1 % of the total hospital death cases with the total of 114 deaths, 66 male and 48 female majority of which falls in the range from 45 years old and above, followed by Hypertension comprising 4.4 % of the total with 45 deaths, 34 male and 11 female, followed by Neonatal Sepsis comprising 3.0 % of the total with 31 deaths, 20 males and 11 females occurring in the age range below 1 year old.

 

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