Predictors of early newborn deaths at Dar es Salaam public regional referral hospitals: A prospective observational hospital-based study

• Grace Frank Mhando ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Grace Frank Mhando, Kelvin Melkizedeck Leshabari

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

  Affiliations Dept of Paediatrics/Child Health, Faculty of Medicine, Hubert Kairuki Memorial University, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, Dept of Paediatrics & Child Health, Amana Regional Referral Hospital, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, NEOnatal Network (NEON-r) research group, Registered Trustees of Ultimate Family Healthcare, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

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• Salvatory Florence Kalabamu,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Dept of Paediatrics/Child Health, Faculty of Medicine, Hubert Kairuki Memorial University, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

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• Maulidi Rashidi Fataki,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Dept of Paediatrics/Child Health, Faculty of Medicine, Hubert Kairuki Memorial University, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

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• Christina Clinton Galabawa,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Dept of Paediatrics/Child Health, Faculty of Medicine, Hubert Kairuki Memorial University, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, NEOnatal Network (NEON-r) research group, Registered Trustees of Ultimate Family Healthcare, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, Port Health Centre, Tanzania Ports Authority, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

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• Kelvin Melkizedeck Leshabari

  Contributed equally to this work with: Grace Frank Mhando, Kelvin Melkizedeck Leshabari

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

  * E-mail: celsius_lx@yahoo.co.uk, kelvin.leshabari@ufht.or.tz

  Affiliations NEOnatal Network (NEON-r) research group, Registered Trustees of Ultimate Family Healthcare, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, Ageing Initiative in sub-Saharan Africa (AISA) research group, Registered Trustees of Ultimate Family Healthcare, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, H3 Clinical Research Unit, I-Katch Technology Ltd, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2663-993X

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