Background
Poor glycemic control is the most challenging issue in diabetes care as shown from different studies globally. Worldwide, around forty to sixty percent of patients have poorly controlled ...
Background:
Acute poisoning is a common reason for emergency department visit and hospitalization worldwide with major morbidity and mortality. WHO reports poisoning is a significant global public health problem which ...
Background: In the last few decades there is substantial improvement in atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) outcomes; however ASCVD remains the leading cause of morbidity and mortality globally. In the past 20 ...
Background: Goiter is an abnormal enlargement of the thyroid gland due to inadequate intake of iodine and goitrogenic food. It is the most important public health problem in developing countries like Ethiopia. Endemic ...
BACKGROUND: Venous thromboembolism (VTE), which includes deep vein thrombosis (DVT) and pulmonary embolism (PE), is a major cause of mortality and morbidity in hospitalized medical patients. Greater than 25% of all VTE is ...
Background: Myocardial infarction is diagnosed when cardiac biomarkers rise, together with supporting evidence such as usual symptoms, suggestive electrocardiographic changes, or imaging evidence of new loss of viable ...
Background: Sepsis is life-threatening organ dysfunction caused by a dysregulated host response to infection. Sepsis is the major causes of morbidity and mortality in Intensive care Units (ICU) in low and middle-income ...
Background: Venous thromboembolism is the third most common cause of vascular mortality worldwide and comprises deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism. Pulmonary embolism has been called “the leading cause of preventable ...
Background: Acute kidney injury complicates 5-7% of acute care hospital admissions and up to 30% of admissions to the intensive care unit in the United States. Even though it is largely preventable disease, the problem is ...
Background: Diabetes Mellitus is a chronic disease that exerts a huge economic burden for the
patients. The chronicity of the disease leads the households to financial hardship. But the economic
burden of diabetes ...
Background: An arrhythmia is a problem with the rate or rhythm of the heartbeat. During an arrhythmia, the heart can beat too fast, too slowly, or with an irregular rhythm. The normal sinus rate has been considered to be ...
Background:
Heart failure is a complex clinical syndrome resulting from structural and functional impairment of ventricular filling or ejection of blood.
Understanding precipitants that contribute to exacerbation of Heart ...
Back ground: Kangaroo mother care (KMC) is one of the few health practices that was developed in low income countries and transferred to high income ones, significantly reduces mortality associated with low birth weight ...
Background- Globally, the electronic information and communication technology has been
applied and much expanded in health care industry. In developing counties including Ethiopia,
electronic medical record system ...
Introduction:Hypothermia plays a significant role in neonatal mortality; which accounts for a five-fold increase in mortality during the first seven days of birth. Globally Case fatality rate of neonatal hypothermia ranges ...
Introduction: Cervical cancer screening is a step or procedure under taken to identify women
with any form of cervical changes. Cervical cancer is a cancer which occurs due to abnormal cell
growth and commonly caused ...
Background: Stunting (being shortness for once age) is a critical public health problemof developing countries.Its prevalence in Amhara Region is the highest (41.3%) which is above the national average (37%). Nutrition ...
Background: Driving quality in pediatric healthcare services plays an important role both in
reducing mortality and morbidity and to bring parental satisfaction. Parental perception is an
important method of measuring ...
Background: Although effective medication exists to treat asthma symptoms and prevent
exacerbations, few studies done in Ethiopia showed that adherence is suboptimal. This warrants
a need to assess the level of medication ...
Minimum dietary diversity is the consumption of four or more food groups from the seven
food groups for higher dietary quality. Currently, there are a number of studies on childhood dietary
diversity practice in different ...