Predictors, causes, and trends of neonatal mortality at Nekemte Referral Hospital, east Wollega Zone, western Ethiopia (2010–2014). Retrospective cohort study

• Elias Merdassa Roro ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Elias Merdassa Roro, Meseret Itana Tumtu

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: emerdassa@gmail.com, eliasm@wollegauniversity.edu.et

  Affiliation Department of Public Health, Institute of Health Sciences, Wollega University, Nekemte, Oromia, Ethiopia

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8985-5336

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• Meseret Itana Tumtu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Elias Merdassa Roro, Meseret Itana Tumtu

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Public Health, Institute of Health Sciences, Wollega University, Nekemte, Oromia, Ethiopia, Nekemte Polly Clinic, Nekemte Town, Oromia, Ethiopia

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• Dejene Seyoum Gebre

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Public Health, Institute of Health Sciences, Wollega University, Nekemte, Oromia, Ethiopia

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