PREVALENCE OF RESPIRATORY INFECTIONS AMONG OUTDOOR PATIENTS
| Main Authors: | DR MUHAMMAD ZESHAN MEHMOOD, DR. FAHID SHAHZAD ANWAR, DR. OSAMA UMAIR |
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| Format: | Article Journal |
| Terbitan: |
, 2020
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| Online Access: |
https://zenodo.org/record/4392812 |
Daftar Isi:
- Respiratory tract infections (RTIs) are infectious diseases involving the respiratory tract. An infection of this type usually is further classified as an upper respiratory tract infection (URI or URTI) or a lower respiratory tract infection (LRI or LRTI). This cross-sectional study was conducted among the outdoor patients. Name, Age, gender, symptoms and disease duration of respiratory tract infection was noted a predefined proforma. All the data was entered and analyzed with SPSS Ver. 23.0. There were 120 outdoor patients included in this study. There were 60 males (50%) and 60 females (50%). The mean age of the patients was 29.12±4.56 years. Out of 120 patients, 45 were presenting with respiratory infection symptoms i.e. cough, light fever and runny nose. Three were suffering from asthma.