Epidemiolgical Survey of Mortality Rate in Patients Admitted to Shohada Hospital of Khorramabad in 2011

Having reliable information about causes of mortality is a necessity for health planning and controling diseases in society. This study is performed to determine the causes of mortality in patients referred to Shohaday-e-Ashayer khorramabad hospital in 2011. The subject of this cross_ sectional study were 863 patients that died in Shohaday-e-Ashayer khorramabad hospital in 2011. The causes of death were coded and classified based on the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) and needed informations were analyzed with methods of descriptive statistics such as tables of the frequency distribution tables، mean، standard deviation and ratio. According to this study higher levels of mortality were for the age above 60 years. This study showed that mortality rate in men (62. 8%) is higher than women (37. 3%). The Cross Death Rate (CDR) in this study is 2. 93%. Truma (28. 51%)، Internal disease (22. 79%) and stroke (17. 1%) are the most common cause of death. other causes of death are surgery (8. 8%)، cancer (7. 5 %)، cardiovascular disease (7%) and infective disease (4. 2%). The most of mortality rates (45. 7%) are whom hospitalized in emergency room. Relation between age and cause of death is most probable، so for increase of life expectancy decreasing truma، internal disease and stoke and risk factor for any disease is necessary.