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Table 3 Comparison of length of stay among under five children with SAM attending NEMMH, Southern Ethiopia

From: Mortality and morbidity trends and predictors of mortality in under-five children with severe acute malnutrition in Hadiya zone, South Ethiopia: a four-year retrospective review of hospital-based records (2012–2015)

Variables

Frequency

Median Length of stay in days

Inter quartile range (25–75) in days

*P-value

Morbidity (n = 433)

   

0.740

Kwashiorkor

186

12

4–25

 

Marasmus

140

8

3–18

 

Marasmic-Kwashiorkor

107

12

8–36

 

Co-morbidity (n = 356)

   

0.798

AGE

78

8

2–12

 

Diarrhoea

39

11

3–24

 

PTB

15

12

7–36

 

Pneumonia

118

11

3–24

 

Others

106

9

3–24

 

Admission type (n = 498)

   

0.016

New

444

11

7–19

 

Repeat

54

8

5–14

 
  1. *Tested using Kruskal –Wallis