Godada Keleb and Awoke Seyoum Tegegne*
Objective: Preterm birth refers to the birth of a baby that occurs before 37 completed weeks of gestation. The main objective of current study was to identify predictors for the death of preterm neonates admitted to neonatal intensive care unit at Felege Hiwot Teaching and Specialized Hospital, North-West Ethiopia.
Methods: Institutional retrospective secondary data was conducted on 300 neonates admitted in the neonatal intensive care unit. Specific death rate and binary logistic regression models were used for data analysis.
Results: The current investigation revealed that; the stay in hours in NICU (AOR= 0.960, p-value=0.028), preterm neonates delivered in hospitals (AOR=0.329, p-value=0.029), preterm birth delivered at health facility (HC, HP) (AOR=0.435), weight of preterm neonates (AOR=0.141, p-value=0.000), a preterm neonate born from multiple pregnancy mothers (AOR=1.104), and HIV infected preterm neonate (AOR=1.328, p-value=0.002) were statistically significant predictors for the death of preterm neonates in NICU.
Conclusions: Small weight neonates, very preterm gestation age, short waiting time of neonates in neonatal intensive care unit and neonates born from mother with multiple pregnancies, HIV infected neonates and those lived in rural areas are risk groups and more attention should be given for such groups.
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