Table 3.

Children Clinical Characteristics in Gurage Zone Public Hospitals, Ethiopia, 2021 (n = 401)

Variables	Category	Frequency	Percent (%)
Types of hospital	Primary	96	24
	General	205	51.1
	Referral	100	24.9
Admission ward	Pediatrics medical ward	227	56.6
	NICU	137	34.2
	Malnutrition	37	9.2
Weight	Mean and SD 7.38±5.74
Height	Mean and SD 65.90±20.61
Hospital stay	≤ 7 days	350	87.3
	> 7 days	51	12.7
Disease condition	Acute	379	94.5
	Chronic	22	5.5
Health status	Stable	182	45.4
	Sub critical	189	47.1
	Critical	30	7.5
Diagnosis	Acute gastro enteritis	11	2.7
	Anemia	6	1.5
	Appendicitis	4	1.0
	Bleeding	2	0.5
	Bronchial asthma	3	0.7
	Burn	8	2.0
	Cellulitis	2	0.5
	Congenital heart disease	12	2.9
	Diabetes mellitus	3	0.7
	Early onset neonatal sepsis	35	8.7
	Failure to suck	3	0.7
	Hyper active airway disease	23	5.7
	Hydrocephalic	2	0.5
	Hypoglycemia	4	1.0
	Impetigo	2	0.5
	Low birth weight	3	0.7
	Late onset neonatal sepsis	56	14.0
	Meconium aspiration syndrome	17	4.2
	Meningitis	5	1.2
	Neonatal jaundice	4	1.0
	Osteomyelitis	2	0.5
	Perinatal asphyxia	25	6.2
	Poising	4	1.0
	Preterm	6	1.5
	Sever acute malnutrition	47	11.7
	Sever community acquired pneumonia	92	22.9
	Seizure	6	1.5
	Trauma	4	1.0
	Others	10	2.5