Magnitude And Predictors Of Mortality Among Preterm Neonates Admitted In Nicu At Debre Markos And Felegehiwot Specialized Hospitals In East And West Gojjam Zones Amhara Reginal State Ethiopia 2020 A Retrospective Cohort Study

Backgrounds: Premature neonatal death is a global burden both in developed and developingrncountries. Despite, different strategies and interventions were implemented to reducernpremature neonatal complications including death, the rate of neonatal mortality in Ethiopiarnare too far from the targets. rnThe objective: the aim of this study is to determine magnitude and predictors of mortalityrnamong preterm neonates admitted to neonatal intensive care unit from 2016-2019 in NICU ofrnDebre markos and Felegehiwot specialized hospitals in Amhara region, Ethiopia. rnMethod: an institution based retrospective cohort study in two specialized hospitals of Debrernmarkos and Felegehiwot in East and West Gojjam zones, Amhara regional state, among allrn432 preterm neonates admitted and enrolled in NICU treatment from 1rnstrn of January, 2016 tornthe 1rnstrn of February, 2019 after getting ethical clearance from Institutional Review board ofrnAddis Ababa University, College of Health sciences, school of Nursing and Midwifery andrndepartment of nursing using a structured checklist to gather information. The data abstractionrntool was developed from related literatures with some modification and the neonatal nationalrnguideline which are currently used in NICU in hospitals. Data was entered into and clearedrnusing epidata software version 3.1 and then has been exported to SPSS version 24 for furtherrnstatistical analysis. Data was analyzed using SPSS version 24 for windows. The level ofrnsignificance was set at P

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