Debre Berhan University

One in seven has severe pain: a point-prevalence study of hospitalised patients across Africa

ABSTRACT: Acute pain in hospitalised patients is common, yet African data are scarce. We conducted a prospective point-prevalence study of hospitalised adult patients across Africa to determine acute pain prevalence and severity and investigate associations of pain with critical...

Sequence Labeling in Urdu Social Media Texts: Data Annotation and Transformer-Based Deep Learning Models

Sequence labeling tasks such as part-of-speech (POS) tagging and named entity recognition (NER) have advanced significantly in high-resource languages and well-structured texts. However, low-resource languages, such as Urdu, face unique challenges due to limited annotated resourc...

The intention of community pharmacy professionals to provide vaccination services: using the theory of planned behavior model

Community pharmacies play a crucial role in expanding access to vaccination services. Vaccination services in Ethiopia can significantly enhance public health services by improving vaccine accessibility. However, pharmacist-led vaccination services are not yet available. This stu...

The 30-day perioperative outcomes of sigmoid volvulus surgery in resource-limited setting in Northcentral Ethiopia

Sigmoid volvulus remains a leading cause of intestine obstruction in low middle income countries, particularly in volvulus belt countries. The objective of this study to explore the morbidity and mortality after sigmoid volvulus surgery in Northcentral Ethiopia. Hospital-based re...

Imbalance-aware explainable machine learning for concurrent child undernutrition modeling

Abstract Child undernutrition remains a significant public-health issue in Ethiopia, shaped by socioeconomic, environmental, and health-related factors. This study develops a machine-learning (ML) classification model that accounts for concurrent nutritional outcomes in male and...

Prevalence of hypocalcemia in neonates receiving phototherapy: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Although phototherapy is the standard treatment for neonatal hyperbilirubinemia, its adverse effects cause electrolyte disturbances. Aggregated evidence regarding the prevalence of phototherapy-induced hypocalcemia remains inconsistent across studies. Therefore, this systematic r...