Time to recovery of neonatal sepsis and its predictors in public hospitals of North Shoa Zone, Central Ethiopia.

Background: Neonatal sepsis remains one of the most common causes of morbidity and mortality among neonates in developing countries. It can cause severe morbidities and sequelae, even though patients survive. Prolonged recovery time of neonatal sepsis leads to hospitalization, increased cost of treatments, antimicrobial resistance, disseminated intravascular coagulation, respiratory failure, septic shock, brain lesions, renal failure, and cardiovascular dysfunction, and eventually death.

Determinants of puerperal sepsis among postpartum women: a case-control study in East Shoa Zone public hospitals, Central Ethiopia.

Objective: To identify determinants of puerperal sepsis among postpartum women attending East Shoa Zone public hospitals, Central Ethiopia, 2023.

Design And Setting: An institutional-based, unmatched case-control study was conducted from 19 June 2023 to 4 September 2023, in East Shoa Zone public hospitals.

Participants: 495 postpartum women (100 cases and 395 controls) were selected using systematic sampling techniques.