Pattern of neonatal and postneonatal deaths over a decade (1995--2004) at a Military Hospital in Saudi Arabia.

Objective: To describe and monitor the causes of neonatal and postneonatal deaths in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) over a 10-year-period.

Methods: This is a descriptive study of all infants who died in the NICU from January 1995 until December 2004 at Riyadh Military Hospital, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Data were collected prospectively on all infants admitted to NICU.