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Table 5 Disease categories of the first-listed diagnoses of patients attended at the ED

From: Critical illness at the emergency department of a Tanzanian national hospital in a three-year period 2019–2021

Diseases Categories

Frequency

Percent (%)

Respiratory Diseases

3,172

18.8

Cardiovascular Diseases

2,128

12.6

Infectious diseases

1,720

10.2

Injury & Trauma

1,719

10.2

Cancers/ Malignancies

1,462

8.7

Neurological Diseases

1,291

7.6

Gastrointestinal Diseases

1,160

6.9

Renal Diseases

787

4.7

Hematological Diseases

708

4.2

Endocrine Diseases

308

1.8

Urinary tract Diseases

256

1.5

Others

2,066

12.2

Missing

116

0.7

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