title: Modifiable factors for prevention of childhood mortality.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To know the disease-related causes of child mortality and identify socially modifiable factors affecting child mortality among hospitalized children aged >1 month-18 years in a referral hospital of North India.
  
  
  METHODS
  Causes of death (ICD-10 based) were extracted retrospectively from hospital files (n=487) from 17 March 2003 to 30 June 2012. Modifiable factors were prospectively studied in 107 consecutive deaths from 6 October 2011 to 30 June 2012.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Pneumonia, CNS infections and diarrhea were the most common disease-related causes of child mortality.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Amongst modifiable factors, administrative issues were most common followed by family-related reasons and medical-personnel related problems.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics, Government Medical College and Hospital, Sector 32, Chandigarh, India. Correspondence to: Dr Vidushi Mahajan, Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Government Medical College and Hospital, Sector 32, Chandigarh, India. vidushimahajan2003@yahoo.co.in.
authors.forename: Vidushi
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Mahajan
authors.forename: Amarpreet
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kaur
authors.forename: Amit
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sharma
authors.forename: Chandrika
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Azad
authors.forename: Vishal
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Guglani
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002423:Cause of Death; D002648:Child; D046688:Child Mortality; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007194:India / Q000453:epidemiology; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D012189:Retrospective Studies