Jurnal Internasional vol.12 issue 1 2022
African Journal of Emergency Medicine
Monitoring of characteristics of the patients visiting an emergency center in Cameroon through the development of hospital patient database

Jurnal Internasional vol.12 issue 1 2022
African Journal of Emergency Medicine
Monitoring of characteristics of the patients visiting an emergency center in Cameroon through the development of hospital patient database

Cameroon
Emergency center
Patient database

Most countries in Sub-Saharan Africa have struggled to utilize health information technology and thus lack in
accurate patient data. This paper describes the method of collecting patient data and patient characteristics in an
emergency centre in Yaoundé, Cameroon.
We developed an Epi InfoTM-based data entry form to collect data of the patients who visited the Centre des
Urgences de Yaoundé (CURY) from January 2016 to June
2018. Demographic, clinical symptoms, treatments and outcome data were collected.
Additional data on the patients with multiple trauma, chest pain, sepsis/septic shock, and stroke were also
collected.
During the study period, a total of 18,875 patients’ data were collected (44.5% women, median age of 36).
Of the total patients, 2.4% had chest pain, 2.7% had stroke, 1.9% had sepsis/septic shock, and 1.6% had multiple
trauma. About 6.0% patients received operation and majority of patients were discharged either normally (48.2%)
or with continuity of care (26.3%). About 5.0% of patients were transferred to other hospital and 5.2% of patients
were dead.
This study serves to broaden understanding of the emergency patients in Yaoundé, Cameroon.

Joongsik Jeong, Yun Jeong Kim, So Yeon Kong , Sang Do Shin, Young Sun Ro, Dae Han Wi , Sang Chul Kim, Kyong Min Sun, Suhee Kim, Sola Kim, Saee Byel Kang, Louis Joss Bitang, Bonaventure Hollong, Lee Wallis

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.afjem.2021.12.002

22 December 2021

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