Pediatric Malaria Mortality Factors in Eastern Uganda, 2020-2024

264 million global malaria cases and 569,000 deaths occurred in 2023. This dataset supports a case-control study of 100 deaths and 200 recoveries among children under five at Mbale Regional Referral Hospital in Uganda from 2020 to 2024, identifying clinical and behavioral predictors of mortality. The data was authored by Patrick Kwizera and published on figshare in April 2026.

Use Cases

• Predicting mortality risk based on clinical features like convulsions and severe anemia mentioned in the description
• Analyzing the impact of care-seeking delays on patient outcomes as described in the study
• Modeling associations between demographic factors (age, sex) and severe malaria mortality
• Training classifiers to identify high-risk pediatric malaria cases from admission records

Strengths

• Data is derived from a study with a defined case-control design (100 cases, 200 controls)
• Covers a specific 5-year time range (2020-2024) from a single referral hospital
• Includes statistically significant predictors with adjusted odds ratios, such as convulsions (aOR=17) and care delay >24 hours (aOR=8.8)

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Data is limited to a single hospital in Eastern Uganda, which may affect generalizability

Provenance

Source

figshare, authored by Patrick Kwizera

Collection Method

Retrospective data extraction from patient records for an unmatched 1:2 case-control study

Time Range

2020 to 2024

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-20 17:43:04; freshness should be verified

Geography

Mbale Regional Referral Hospital, Eastern Uganda