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Abstract

Morbidity and mortality due to community acquired pneumonia has beenincreased in our country. Children and old age patients are mostly effected due to communityacquired pneumonia Study design: Cross sectional study. Setting: Patients hospitalized forCommunity acquired pneumonia in four different hospitals located at different areas werestudied. Period: Three years period from August 2011 to August 2014. Objectives: To assessdemographic profile, pneumonia severity index and length of stay of community acquiredpneumonia patients hospitalized at different hospitals in Karachi. Method: 800 patients bothmale and females patients were included in this study. Results: It was found that 480 (60%)were males and 320 (40%) were females, males were significantly more frequent (c2=0.48,p˂0.05) than the females patients. There was a significance difference in numbers of differentage group patients. According to the age distribution, there were 222(27.75%) from 1-5 years,which was the highest among the patients and there were 44(5.5%) from 81-90 years of agegroup patients, which was least among the different age group patients. According to thecomorbidity most of the patients were found without comorbidity there were 456(57%) patientspossess no comorbidity. Patients with comorbidity were 344(43%), and comorbidity was foundin patients with hypertension were 131(16.4%) and patients with diabetes were 105(13.1%) thesewere the two most commonly comorbidity disease found. According to the socioeconomicstatus (SES) status there were 482(60.25%) patients from lower SES class, 270(33.8%) patientfrom middle SES class and 54(6.8%) patients from high Socioeconomic class. patient with lowSES were much higher at hospital C and hospital D.(c2=127.88,p˂0.05). CAP is more frequentin married patients, married patients status were much higher at hospital C and hospital D(c2=60.31, p˂0.05). According to the PSI segregation there were 424(53%) patients from PSIclass I, 168(21%) were from PSI class II, 128(16%) patients were from PSI class III, 44(5.5%)were from class IV and 36(4.5%) were from PSI class V. Mean length of stay (LOS) was greaterat hospital C and D as compare to other two hospitals. Conclusion: CAP is frequent amongmales, low socio-economic, hypertensive individuals and patients from 1-5 years of age. Theshortest mean length found was 3.6days at hospital A and the longest mean length of stayfound was 7.6 days at hospital D.