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Background: The clinical outcomes are very important for different pattern of diseases among the hospital admitted patients. Objective: The purpose of the present study was to see the pattern of diseases with their clinical outcomes of hospital admitted patients in the medicine ward at a tertiary care hospital in Dhaka city. Methodology: This cross-sectional study was conducted in the Department of Medicine at Dhaka Medical College Hospital, Dhaka, Bangladesh from March 2003 to June 2003 over a period of 16 weeks. The study population comprised of all patients admitted in the selected Medicine wards during the study period irrespective of age and sex. All admitted patients in the selected wards irrespective of age and sex carefully screened out by examining the patients’ daily hospital records and discharge certificate at the time of their discharge. The different disease pattern of the admitted patients were recorded. Clinical outcome of diseases were categorized cured, referred or deceased. Result: A total number of 124 patients were recruited for this study. Various types of diseases were categorized into 8 groups. Out of 124 respondents 35 (28.2%) patients were suffering from Gastrointestinal and hepatobiliary diseases that topped the list followed by patients with cardiovascular diseases (21.8%). Majority (59.7%) were cured and 15.3% were found to be referred. One fourth of the patients admitted were deceased. Most of the patients (94.4%) had investigations done whereas only a small fraction (5.6%) did not under go any laboratory investigations. Conclusion: In conclusion most of the admitted patients in the medicine unit of hospital are suffering from gastrointestinal and hepatobiliary diseases and majority are cured before discharge from the hospital.