ArticleAnnals of medicine and surgery (2012)2021
Survival and predictors of mortality among patients admitted to the intensive care units in southern Ethiopia: A multi-center cohort study.
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- Influence of severity of illnesses on risk of death in intensive care unit patients with severity of pressure injuries as mediating variable.International wound journal · 2024Article
- Determinants of Mortality of Patients Admitted to the Intensive Care Unit at Debre Berhan Comprehensive Specialized Hospital: A Retrospective Cohort Study.Patient related outcome measures · 2024Article
- Family Satisfaction with Care Provided in Intensive Care Unit; a Multi-Center, Cross-Sectional Study.Patient related outcome measures · 2024Article
- Incidence and predictors of mortality among patients admitted to adult intensive care unit at public hospitals in Western Ethiopia: a retrospective cohort study.Frontiers in medicine · 2024Article
- Variables associated to intensive care unit (ICU)-mortality among patients admitted to surgical intensive care unit in Ethiopia: a retrospective observational study.BMC anesthesiology · 2023Observational
- The magnitude of mortality and its predictors among adult patients admitted to the Intensive care unit in Amhara Regional State, Northwest Ethiopia.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- A health systems approach to critical care delivery in low-resource settings: a narrative review.Intensive care medicine · 2023Review
- Incidence and predictors of mortality among adult trauma patients admitted to the intensive care units of comprehensive specialized hospitals in Northwest Ethiopia.European journal of medical research · 2023Article
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Abstract
backgroundThe 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.
methodsAfter 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 Social Sciences version 22 and STATA version 16 for analysis. Descriptive statistics were run to see the overall distribution of the variables. Chi-square test and odds ratio were determined to identify the association between independent and dependent variables. Multivariate analysis was conducted to control possible confounders and identify independent predictors of ICU mortality.
resultsThe mean (±SD) of the patients admitted in ICU was 34.25(±5.25). The overall ICU mortality rate was 46.8%. The study identified different independent predictors of mortality. Patients with cardiac arrest were approximately 12 times more likely to die as compared to those who didn't, AOR = 11.9(95% CI:6.1 to 23.2).
conclusionThe overall mortality rate in ICU was very high as compared to other studies in Ethiopia as well as globally which entails a rigorous activity from different stakeholders.
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