Abstract

Aim. The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between emerging diseases with fever and the complaints of patients admitted to the hospital emergency department in North Cyprus. It is aimed to evaluate the admission complaints and etiology, who are admitted to the university hospital emergency department due to fever, from epidemiological point of view. Methods. In this retrospective study, the patients who applied to the emergency department of Medical Faculty Hospital, North Cyprus with complaints of fever between July 2010 and July 2012 were evaluated. Results. In 15,820 patients who admitted to the emergency department, 1,224 (%7.73) were found to be suffering from fever. The most common group of disease cause of fever was upper respiratory tract infections. Evaluation of other most common diseases in order to frequency were lower respiratory tract infections and gastroenteritis. Conclusions. The most common cause of fever were found to be the group of patients with a viral upper respiratory tract infections in North Cyprus. It has been identified that these data are similar to the other countries hospital emergency services.

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