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Oyato, Befekadu Tesfaye https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8909-1209
Sime, Teshome Ketema
Debele, Tirunesh
Abasimel, Husen Zakir https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7684-4339
Alemu, Fikadu Tolesa https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8034-3737
Asfaw, Samuel Boja
Mekonnin, Wuletaw Tadesse
Gesisa, Hana Israel https://orcid.org/0009-0007-7351-7448
Kebede, Elleni Tesfaye https://orcid.org/0009-0005-4834-8676
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Received: 16 October 2024
Accepted: 20 January 2025
First Online: 24 January 2025
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: Ethical clearance and approval were obtained from the Salale University Institutional Review Board (IRB) with reference number SLU-IRB/32/23. As the study only used anonymized retrospective patient data, a waiver of consent to participate was granted by the reviewing institutions. An official letter of support detailing the study’s objectives was sent to the hospitals under study. The final approval to collect data was given by the chief clinical director and NICU head of each institution after they had reviewed the ethical clearance and verified the anonymity of the participants. Confidentiality and anonymity were preserved, and the client records were returned to their original place once the data collection was completed. The entire work was performed in line with the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki.
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: The authors declare no competing interests.
