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Table 1 Overall trend in burden of individual clinical diagnoses 1990-2008

From: An increase in the burden of neonatal admissions to a rural district hospital in Kenya over 19 years

Admissions annual cases

Year

Neonatal

sepsis

Culture

positive

Prematurity

Neonatal

encephalopathy

Neonatal

jaundice

Neonatal

tetanus

Neonatal

meningitis

1990

49

-

50

-

-

20

7

1991

78

-

32

4

-

41

9

1992

69

-

40

5

-

26

6

1993

81

-

73

5

-

28

7

1994

100

-

59

9

-

13

4

1995

148

-

58

13

-

22

4

1996

149

-

39

11

-

32

4

1997

172

-

47

6

9

10

2

1998

134

54

41

11

35

26

1

1999

178

70

57

22

38

25

3

Trend:1990-

1999(95%CI)

13.8

(8.2-19.4)

**

0.6

(-4.1-5.3)

1.6

(0.3-2.9)

**

-1.3

(-3.0-0.5)

-0.8

(-1.0 to -0.7)

t-stats

5.78

-

0.30

3.0

-

-1.75

-12.9

Pvalue

0.001

-

0.77

0.02

-

0.12

< 0.001

2000

144

55

61

29

46

25

9

2001

149

52

72

37

91

27

5

2002

227

51

79

37

65

23

12

2003

234

51

79

68

88

6

14

2004

245

57

64

57

91

11

11

2005

274

75

90

100

118

12

17

2006

238

58

106

120

91

12

6

2007

276

57

97

111

84

18

9

2008

307

46

136

133

55

13

17

Trend:2000-

2008(95%CI)

16.5

(6.2-26.7)

0.0

(-4.5 -4.5)

7.3

(2.8-11.8)

14.6

(11.3-17.8)

-2.7

(-11.7-6.2)

-1.0

(-4.5-2.6)

0.5

(-0.8 -1.9)

t-stats

3.94

0.0

4.00

10.86

-0.74

-1.66

0.93

Pvalue

0.008

1.0

0.007

< 0.001

0.49

0.54

0.39

Overall Trend:

1990-2008 (95%CI)

13.1

(10.7-15.6)

-0.6

(-3.1 -1.9)

4.8

(2.4-7.2)

11.0

(5.7-16.3)

5.9

(1.7-10.2)

-1.0

(-1.6 to -0.4)

0.6

(0.06 -1.2)

t-stats

11.3

-0.58

4.2

4.4

2.9

-3.6

2.35

P-Value

< 0.001

0.58

0.001

< 0.001

0.01

0.002

0.03

  1. ** Trend analysis not done where data available for <5years.