Low Neonatal Mortality and High Incidence of Infectious Diseases in a Vietnamese Province Hospital

Table 2

Distribution of diagnoses at discharge in Dong Thap Hospital.

Discharge diagnosis^1	Dong Thap Hospital		Children’s Hospital 1, Ho Chi Minh City [5]
	Cases	%	Cases	%
Prematurity	225	21.3	385	6.7
Infection	936	88.5	3618	62.8
Sepsis/meningitis	172	16.3
Skin/umbilical infection	232	21.9
Pneumonia	155	14.7
Unspecified infection	377	35.6
Congenital malformations	53	5.0	864	15.0
Asphyxia	49	4.6	120	2.1
Jaundice	280	26.5	1060	18.4

Each neonate had one or more diagnoses assigned.
36 of 1094 did not have a discharge diagnosis registered.