Gebretsadik, Achamyelesh
Hagos, Hailemichael
Tefera, Kebede
Article History
Received: 2 January 2020
Accepted: 14 April 2020
First Online: 28 April 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Approval of this study was given by the research and the ethics committee of the School of Public Health and the Institutional Review Board of the College of Medical and Health Sciences at Hawassa University. Permission to undertake this study was also obtained from Yirgalem General hospital administrative director then an official letter was sent to the medical record department from the chief clinical service officer of the hospital. Since all data was secondary data and obtained directly from medical records with no direct contact with patients, consent, waiver was requested and granted from the IRB. To insure privacy and confidentiality of sensitive information, names were replaced with codes of each participant.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.