DISTRICT HOSPITAL / PERIPHERAL UNIT
Learning outcomes
At the end of the visit, the student will be expected to:
- Describe the services provided at a District Hospital/PU
- Describe the organisational structure of a DH/PU
- Demonstrate an understanding of how a DH/PU provides primary health care
- Demonstrate an understanding of the flow of health information from a DH/PU to the Medical Statistics unit
- Describe the registers and returns used to collect and disseminate health information at a hospital
- Critically evaluate the validity of health information generated at a hospital
- Discuss the role of DMO as a manager
Content areas
- Organisational structure of a DH/ PU
- Services provided at a DH/PU
- Role of the medical officer in the health information system and as a manager
- Collection of morbidity and mortality data from wards, coding, tabulation and preparation for transmission to the Medical Statistics Unit
- Indoor Morbidity and Mortality Register
- Indoor Morbidity and Mortality Return
- ICD coding
Learning activity: Observe diagnoses documented by the medical officers on BHTs and critically evaluate their validity
RECOMMENDED READING MATERIAL
- Park, K 2007, 'Concept of Health and Disease: Disease classification', in Park's Text Book of Preventive and Social Medicine pp. 44- 45, Banarsidas Bhanot Publishers, Jabalpur, India
- Manual of Management of District Hospitals, Peripheral Units and Rural Hospital, 1994.
- Department of Health Services Sri Lanka, 2015, 'Morbidity and mortality', in Annual Health Bulletin, Medical Statistical Unit, Department of Health Services, Sri Lanka.