Determine the correlation between malaria severity assessment score and duration of hospital stay in malaria patients at tertiary care centre

Abstract

INTRODUCTION: Malaria is the most important tropical disease accounts for mortality with estimates of over million deaths around the world making an impact to society. Malaria can lead to various organ system dysfunction and cause mortality and morbidity of the patient. Purpose of this study is to determine correlation between malaria severity assessment score and duration of hospital stay among the patients of malaria at tertiary care centre. METHODS: A cross-sectional study involving patients diagnosed with malaria as per WHO guidelines across a study period of 18 months was conducted from 2019- 2021. organ dysfunction was taken into consideration and used for assessment of malaria severity score. RESULTS: Among 82 positive cases of malaria, various parameters were taken into consideration for the assessment of score. among them neurological and hepatic parameters are least significant and contributes for less than 1 percent of cases and also severity. Renal parameters contribute for about 50 percent of mild cases and 2 percent of moderate cases among both males and females. Respiratory parameters show 40 percent of mild cases and 1.2 percent of moderate cases.