ArticleAfrican health sciences2021
Magnitude of post-operative mortality and associated factors among patients who underwent surgery in Wolaita Sodo teaching and referral hospital, SNNPR region, Ethiopia.
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- Incidence and predictors of perioperative mortality in Ethiopia: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC anesthesiology · 2025Pooled it
- Efficacy of probiotic and synbiotic supplementation on the length of hospital stays and risk of postoperative mortality in patients undergoing surgery: an umbrella review of systematic reviews and meta-analyses of randomized clinical trials.European journal of medical research · 2026Review
- Postoperative hospital stay and associated factors among adult surgical patients at a specialized hospital in Ethiopia.BMC surgery · 2025Article
- Artificial intelligence and machine learning approaches for patient safety in complex surgery: a review.Patient safety in surgery · 2025Review
- The Ethiopian Surgical Outcome Study (Ethio-SOS): a 7-day multicentre national prospective observational cohort study.BMJ global health · 2025Observational
- The effect of comorbidity on 28-day perioperative mortality rate among non-cardiac surgical patients in Northwest Ethiopia: a prospective cohort study using propensity score matching.BMC public health · 2024Article
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- Magnitude and associated factors of postoperative mortality among patients who underwent surgery in Ethiopia: systematic review and meta-analysis.Annals of medicine and surgery (2012) · 2024Review
- The progressive model of perioperative care.Frontiers in medicine · 2024Article
- Incidence and predictors of perioperative mortality in a low-resource country, Ethiopia: a prospective follow-up study.BMJ open · 2023Article
- Perioperative Adverse Outcome and Its Predictors After Emergency Laparotomy Among Sigmoid Volvulus Patients: Retrospective Follow-Up Study.Open access emergency medicine : OAEM · 2023Article
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Abstract
Background: Each year 4.2 million people around the world die within 30 days of surgery and postoperative deaths account for 7.7 % of all deaths. So this study aimed to asses' magnitude of postoperative mortality and associated factors among patients who underwent surgery in Wolaita Sodo University Teaching referral Hospital. Method: Retrospective cross sectional design was carried out from April 15-30 2019. Card review was done on 384 participants by using Systematic sampling technique. Entered to Epi Data; exported to SPSS for analysis. Variables with p-value < 0.25 in bivariate analysis were entered to multivariate logistic regression. Statistical significance is determined at p-value < 0.05. Results: The magnitude of postoperative mortality was 5.7%. Using surgical check list (AOR= 0.18; 95% CI 0.05 to 0.61), having comorbid condition (AOR= 4.45; 95% CI 1.39 to 14.19), and don't having blood transfusion (AOR= 0.07; 95% CI 0.02 to 0.22) and general anesthesia (AOR= 4.37; 95% CI 1.17 to 16.30) are factors of post-operative mortality. Conclusion: The magnitude of postoperative mortality was high. Surgical check list, comorbidity, blood transfusion and general anesthesia are factors. The hospital should encourage using of surgical check list and work on comorbid patients to decrease the mortality.
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