Factors associated with in-hospital mortality of patients admitted to an intensive care unit in a tertiary hospital in Malawi

Mtisunge Kachingwe; Raphael Kazidule Kayambankadzanja; Wezzie Kumwenda Mwafulirwa; Singatiya Stella Chikumbanje; Tim Baker

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0273647

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Factors associated with in-hospital mortality of patients admitted to an intensive care unit in a tertiary hospital in Malawi

Mtisunge Kachingwe ,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: mtkachingwe@gmail.com

Affiliations Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital, Blantyre, Malawi, Kamuzu University of Health Sciences, Blantyre, Malawi

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1244-9238

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Raphael Kazidule Kayambankadzanja,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital, Blantyre, Malawi, Kamuzu University of Health Sciences, Blantyre, Malawi
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Wezzie Kumwenda Mwafulirwa,

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital, Blantyre, Malawi
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Singatiya Stella Chikumbanje,

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital, Blantyre, Malawi, Kamuzu University of Health Sciences, Blantyre, Malawi
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Tim Baker

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital, Blantyre, Malawi, Kamuzu University of Health Sciences, Blantyre, Malawi, Department of Global Public Health, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, Perioperative Medicine and Intensive Care, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
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Factors associated with in-hospital mortality of patients admitted to an intensive care unit in a tertiary hospital in Malawi

Mtisunge Kachingwe,
Raphael Kazidule Kayambankadzanja,
Wezzie Kumwenda Mwafulirwa,
Singatiya Stella Chikumbanje,
Tim Baker

Published: September 30, 2022
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0273647

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