Pattern and predictors of emergency department early mortality in St Paul Hospital Millennium Medical college, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Abstract Background: To mitigate the consequences of ill-health and preventable mortality, a nation's health system should be adaptable and responsive to morbidity and early mortality trends. To that end, high-quality health-care facility-based studies are required to provide critical information about patterns of deaths occurring in healthcare settings. Literature on mortality statistics in low- and middle-income nations is currently scarce. There is no published literature in the study site, and limited studies exist in Ethiopia, regarding ED mortality. This study aims to characterize all-cause early mortality among patients presenting to emergency departments, understand patterns, and identify predictors of early mortality. That will be scientific evidence for hospital leaders, policy makers and to the larger scientific community in general. Methods: The study design will be a two and half-years, retrospective review of hospital records of patients treated at St. Paul Hospital Millennium Medical College. A chart review of deaths from January. 1, 2020 to June 30 2022, will be conducted. Using SPSS Version 25, descriptive and analytical statistics will be performed. All variables summary statistics will be analyzed. In order to describe the subset of patients who might have benefited from adult ED care, all participants under the age of 12 will be excluded. To assess the association between early death, and demographic and clinical characteristics as well as categorical variables, multivariant method will be used. [Ethiop. J. Health Dev. 2024; 38(2): 00-00] Key words: emergency mortality, study protocol, Ethiopia