Table 4.
Top ten and co-morbidity cases of death in PED at TASTH, Addis Ababa, from 2012 to 2016 inclusive
| Top ten diseases | Secondary causes of mortality (N (%)) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Malnutrition | Congenital heart defect | Down syndrome | Malignancy tumor | Low birth weight | Prematurity | HIV | Diabetes mellitus | |
| Pneumonia (n = 30) | 17 (56.7) | 7 (23.3) | 2 (6.7) | 1 (3.3) | 1 (3.3) | 2 (6.7) | ||
| Congestive heart failure (n = 43) | 9 (20.9) | 21 (48.8) | 10 (23.3) | 2 (4.6) | 1 (2.4) | |||
| Sepsis (n = 11) | 4 (36.4) | 4 (36.3) | 1 (9.1) | 1 (9.1) | 1 (9.1) | |||
| Meningitis (n = 8) | 1 (12.5) | 3 (37.5) | 2 (25) | 2 (25) | ||||
| Hypovolemic shock (n = 8) | 3 (37.5) | 2 (25) | 3 (37.5) | |||||
| Hematological malignancy (n = 11) | 7 (63.6) | 4 (36.4) | ||||||
| Anemia (n = 4) | 3 (75.0) | 1 (25.0) | ||||||
| Tuberculosis (n = 5) | 4 (80.0) | 1 (20.0) | ||||||
| Abdominal mass (n = 1) | 1 (100) | |||||||
| Renal failure (n = 1) | 1 (100) | |||||||