Facility-Based Newborn Deaths at a Referral Tertiary Hospital in North-Central Nigeria during the Sustainable Development Goal Era: A Retrospective Cohort Analysis.

Abstract:

BACKGROUND:Nigeria has the largest number of global under-five deaths and almost half of these occur in the newborn period in an almost 50:50 ratio across hospital facilities and communities. We examine and describe risk factors for newborn mortality at a busy neonatal unit of a referral tertiary hospital in North-central Nigeria. METHODS:We conducted a retrospective cohort analysis of all newborn admissions to the Dalhatu Araf Specialist Hospital between September 2018 and March 2020. We determined the newborn mortality rate (NMR) and case fatality rates (CFRs) for individual diagnostic categories and determined risk predictors for mortality using cox-proportional hazard models. RESULTS:Of 1171 admitted newborn infants, 175 (14.9%) died with about half of these occurring within 24 h of admission. Extremely low birth weight infants and those with congenital anomalies had the highest CFRs. Identified risk factors for mortality were age at admission [adjusted hazard ratio (AHR): 0.996, 95% CI: 0.993-0.999], admitting weight (AHR: 0.9995, 95% CI: 0.9993-0.9997) and home delivery (AHR: 1.65, 95% CI: 1.11-to 2.46). CONCLUSIONS:Facility-based newborn mortality is high in North-central Nigeria. Majority of these deaths occur within the first 24 h of admission, signifying challenges in acute critical newborn care. To improve the current situation and urgently accelerate progress to meet the sustainable development goal NMR targets, there is an urgent need to develop human and material resources for acute critical newborn care while encouraging facility-based delivery and decentralizing existing newborn care. Lay summaryNigeria now has the greatest number of deaths in children below the age of five globally. Almost half of these occurred in the newborn period and these deaths occur within hospital facilities and also in communities in an almost 50:50 ratio. As such, the country might not attain global newborn mortality rates that were set as targets for the sustainable development goals (SDGs). In this article, we examine and describe the risk factors for newborn deaths occurring at a typical newborn unit in North-central Nigeria. During the period under review, we found that about 175 (14.9%) died and about half of these deaths occurred within 24 h of admission. Extremely small babies and those who were born with physical defects had the highest death rates. Older babies and those who weighed more at admission had decreased risks of dying while being delivered at home increased the risk of death. Hospital newborn deaths remain high in North-central Nigeria and the pattern of early admission deaths signifies challenges in stabilizing critically ill newborn infants. There is an urgent need to develop human and material resources for acute critical newborn care while encouraging institutional delivery and decentralizing of existing newborn care.

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J Trop Pediatr

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Ogunkunle TO,Gabriel TY,Bello SO,Abdullahi Y,Bulus J,Ozhe SI,Imam A

doi

10.1093/tropej/fmaa126

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Has Abstract

pub_date

2021-01-09 00:00:00

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0142-6338

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1465-3664

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6076725

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