Abstract
Objective
To know the disease-related causes of child mortality and identify socially modifiable factors affecting child mortality among hospitalized children aged >1 month-18 years in a referral hospital of North India.
Methods
Causes of death (ICD-10 based) were extracted retrospectively from hospital files (n=487) from 17 March 2003 to 30 June 2012. Modifiable factors were prospectively studied in 107 consecutive deaths from 6 October 2011 to 30 June 2012.
Results
Pneumonia, CNS infections and diarrhea were the most common disease-related causes of child mortality.
Conclusions
Amongst modifiable factors, administrative issues were most common followed by family-related reasons and medical-personnel related problems.
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Mahajan, V., Kaur, A., Sharma, A. et al. Modifiable factors for prevention of childhood mortality. Indian Pediatr 51, 45–47 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13312-014-0325-z
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