Prevalence and associated factors of pediatric emergency mortality at Tikur Anbessa specialized tertiary hospital: a 5 year retrospective case review study

Table 5 Factors (crude and adjusted odds ratios and confidence intervals) associated with early pediatric mortality in PED at TASTH, Addis Ababa from 2012 to 2016 inclusive

Variables	Mortality		COR (CI, 95%)	AOR (CI, 95%)	p value
Variables	≤24 h	> 24 h	COR (CI, 95%)	AOR (CI, 95%)	p value
Age
Neonate	24	45	1.47 (0.73–2.98)	0.96 (0.44–2.09)	0.982
Infant	31	61	1.40 (0.73–2.72)	1.15 (0.56–2.36)	0.912
Preschool age	34	64	1.47 (0.77–2.81)	1.57 (0.77–3.21)	0.187
School age	21	58	1.00	1.00
Duration of signs and symptoms
≤ two days	57	77	1.00	1.00
> two days	53	151	2.11 (1.33–3.35)	3.22 (1.34–7.73)**	0.004
Sign and symptoms
Fast breathing	18	28	2.21 (1.00–4.88)	2.78 (1.19–6.49)*	0.020
Fever	15	20	2.58 (1.10–6.05	3.17 (1.28–7.86)*	0.019
Vomiting	9	23	1.35 (0.53–3.42)	1.48 (0.55–4.03)	0.573
Cough	5	29	0.59 (0.20–1.76)	0.70 (0.23–2.18)	0.625
Shortness of breath	45	66	2.35 (1.23–4.49)	2.45 (1.22–4.91)**	0.006
Other diseases	18	62	1.00	1.00
Hematological malignancy
Yes	4	11	0.74 (0.23–2.39)	1.08 (0.29–4.03)	0.814
No	106	217	1.00	1.00
Diarrheal disease
Yes	85	208	3.06 (1.61–5.80)	3.36 (1.69–6.67)**	0.009
No	25	20	1.00	1.00
Malnutrition
Yes	24	67	1.49 (0.87–2.55)	1.43 (0.79–2.57)	0.226
No	86	161	1.00	1.00

Other signs and symptoms included respiratory distress, swelling, coma, convulsion, grunting, abdominal pain, distension, headache, failure to suck
Note: -* Significant association (p-value < 0.05), −** significant association (p-value < 0.01), Hosmer and Lemeshow goodness of fit test = 0.985
COR crude odds ratio, AOR adjusted odds ratio

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