Survival status and predictors of mortality among severely acute malnourished under-5 children admitted to stabilisation centers in selected government hospitals in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 2022: a retrospective cohort study

The study identified a survival rate slightly higher than the acceptable range set by the social and public health economics study group. Factors like vaccination status, HIV, pneumonia, shock, intravenous fluid and the absence of feeding F-75 predicted mortality.