Inability to Walk Predicts Death among Adult Patients in Hospitals in Malawi

Table 1

Patient characteristics.

	N=1094
Female, n (%)	648 (59.2)
Age, mean years (range)	39 (18-98)
HIV positive, n/ (%)	354/814 (43.5)
Post-delivery or post-abortion care	209 (19.1%)
Trauma	150 (13.7%)
Cancer	129 (11.8%)
Bacterial infection / sepsis	84 (7.7%)
Tuberculosis	83 (7.6%)
Non-communicable diseases	60 (5.5%)
Pneumonia	48 (4.4%)
Anaemia	44 (4.0%)
Meningitis	38 (3.5%)
Malaria	16 (1.5%)
Pre-eclampsia/eclampsia	13 (1.2%)
Other/unknown	220 (20.1%)
Specialty, n (%)
	457 (41.8)
	285 (26.1)
Obstetrics and Gynaecology	281(25.7)
Ophthalmology	45 (4.1)
Orthopaedics	26 (2.4)
Length of hospital stay, median days (IQR)
Before data collection	5(2-12)
After data	4(2-10)

known HIV status N=814
primary diagnosis at time of data collection
including dermatology, tuberculosis and oncology.
including ear-nose-throat surgery, neurosurgery and plastic surgery
data censored at 30 days