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In-Patient
Services
The
Department of Medicine is in charge of 380 beds (including 6 Medical
ICU Beds) in Queen Mary Hospital (QMH). It is divided into four
functional General Medical teams.
The
4 general medical teams function very well and provide better
training to junior doctors and, using an overflow system, have
managed to keep the camp-bed numbers down to a minimum.
Each
team is on-call every fourth day to receive patients from the
Department of Accident & Emergency. The intake for each team
is about 75 per week, i.e., a total of 300 patients/week of medical
A&E admissions.
There
is also admission of clinical cases and re-admission from specialty
follow-up clinics. The Department runs a comprehensive specialty
service, many at tertiary level. The different types of specialty
services offer are listed under the "Specialty Clinical Services"
heading further down the page.
The
total number of medical admissions (excludes private patients)
for the past few years in QMH are listed as follows:
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1995 |
1996 |
1997 |
1998 |
Emergency |
14,646
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16,047
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17,721
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17,434
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Clinical
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13,826
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15,381
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16,059
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14,710
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Total
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28,469
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31,713
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33,770
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35,113
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- 1996
has a 11% increase in admissions compared to 1995.
- 1997
has a 6.5% increase in admissions compared to 1996.
- 1998
has a 4% increase in admissions compared to 1997.
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