The Kaplan Meier estimates of mortality and its predictors among newborns admitted with low birth weight at public hospitals in Ethiopia

Samuel Dessu; Aklilu Habte; Molalegn Mesele

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0238629

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The Kaplan Meier estimates of mortality and its predictors among newborns admitted with low birth weight at public hospitals in Ethiopia

Samuel Dessu ,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

* E-mail: dessusamuel@yahoo.com

Affiliation Department of Public Health, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Wolkite University, Wolkite, Ethiopia

http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9800-1076

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Aklilu Habte,

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Public Health, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Wachamo University, Hossana, Ethiopia
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Molalegn Mesele

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Midwifery, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Wolaita Soddo University, Wolaita Soddo, Ethiopia
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The Kaplan Meier estimates of mortality and its predictors among newborns admitted with low birth weight at public hospitals in Ethiopia

Samuel Dessu,
Aklilu Habte,
Molalegn Mesele

Published: September 11, 2020
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0238629

About the Authors

Samuel Dessu

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

* E-mail: dessusamuel@yahoo.com

Affiliation Department of Public Health, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Wolkite University, Wolkite, Ethiopia

http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9800-1076

Aklilu Habte

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Public Health, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Wachamo University, Hossana, Ethiopia

Molalegn Mesele

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Midwifery, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Wolaita Soddo University, Wolaita Soddo, Ethiopia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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