Background: In industrialized countries, the audit has
become an integral part of medical care. The experience in
developing countries yet inadequate. This is the first formal
death audit in medicine ward in Bangladesh. This study
had been carried out to find out relation between some
factors like age, sex, causes, diurnal variation, duration of
hospital stay with death & errors in certification process
Methods: It was a cross sectional study conducted at the
Medicine Department of Sir Salimullah Medical College
(SSMC) and Mitford Hospital from March 2010 to August
2010. Information of consecutive 100 deaths in medicine
department were collected in a pre designed clinical data
sheet within half an hour of every occurrence. Necessary
data was collected from hospital case records (admission
register, case files and death certificates) using structured
check-list. Patients who were brought dead excluded from
the study .Result: Among 100 deaths, 48% were male(n=48)
and 52% were female(n=52). The age range was 15-85 years.
The highest incidence of death(24%) occurred in 56-65 years
group. Within this group 66.7% were male and 33.3% were
female. First day(within 24 hour of admission) death
accounted for 46%(n=46) of all death, by the second day
23%(n=23) of all death occurred. Before the 5thday