Preterm Neonatal Characteristics in Harari and Dire Dawa Hospitals, 2021-2024

Boru Abera Ebsa's dataset contains neonatal-related characteristics for 612 preterm neonates admitted to NICU public hospitals in the Harari region and Dire Dawa administration. The data was collected between November 1, 2021 and October 31, 2024. It is a 9.5 KB Excel file last updated on April 17, 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyze preterm neonatal characteristics based on the described clinical data.
• Study temporal trends in NICU admissions based on the 2021-2024 collection period.
• Investigate regional healthcare outcomes based on the specified Harari and Dire Dawa geography.

Strengths

• Contains 612 patient records, providing a substantive sample size.
• Covers a defined 3-year period from November 2021 to October 2024.
• Released under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to the two specified regions in Ethiopia.

Provenance

Source

Boru Abera Ebsa via figshare.

Collection Method

Likely collected from hospital admissions records.

Time Range

November 1, 2021 to October 31, 2024.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-17 17:52:15; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Public hospitals in the Harari region and Dire Dawa administration, Ethiopia.