Survival and predictors of mortality among patients admitted to the intensive care units in southern Ethiopia: A multi-center cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The burden of life-threatening conditions requiring intensive care units has grown substantially in low-income countries related to an emerging pandemic, urbanization, and hospital expansion. The rate of ICU mortality varied from region to region in Ethiopia. However, the body of evidence on ICU mortality and its predictors is uncertain. This study was designed to investigate the pattern of disease and predictors of mortality in Southern Ethiopia.

Methods

After obtaining ethical clearance from the Institutional Review Board (IRB), a multi-center cohort study was conducted among three teaching referral hospital ICUs in Ethiopia from June 2018 to May 2020. Five hundred and seventeen Adult ICU patients were selected. Data were entered in Statistical Package for Socia

SUBMITTER: Abate SM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8091884 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature