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Update RDS mortality fractions for all 3 locations
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Alix Pletcher committed Jan 24, 2025
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- These values are from the 2016 EmONC Final Report and are therefore only reflective of Ethiopian health system a decade ago. Please use these as a placeholder for now while we
try to find reliable values for Nigeria and Pakistan.
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- 0.64 (95% CI 0.50-0.82) relative risk on RDS mortality of facility having CPAP
- Note that we might want RR for NICU, but this value is for CPAP.
- 0.53 (95% CI 0.34-0.83) relative risk on RDS mortality of neonate receiving CPAP
- Note that we might want RR for NICU, but this value is for CPAP. The population that this effect size applies to is
preterm infants with "respiratory failure becoming evident soon after birth".
Source: `2020 Cochrane review <https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8094155/>`_
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- 0.69 (95% CI 0.59-0.81) relative risk for RDS mortality based on birthing parent receiving antenatal corticosteroids
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spontaneous preterm labour, preterm prelabour rupture of the membranes or planned preterm delivery."
Source: `2017 Cochrane review <https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28321847/>`_
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- Percentage of preterm deaths caused by RDS: Ethiopia - 45.3%; Nigeria - 52.4%; Pakistan - 35.6%
- Percentage of preterm deaths caused by RDS: Ethiopia - 87.1%; Nigeria - 98.1%; Pakistan - 89.7%
- Ethiopia source: `Major causes of death in preterm infants in selected hospitals in Ethiopia <https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214109X19302207>`_
Nigeria source: `Current Trends in Neonatal Morbidity and Mortality - Experiences from a Tertiary Center in Lagos, Nigeria <https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9490664/>`_
Pakistan source: `Birth asphyxia is under-rated as a cause of preterm neonatal mortality in low- and middle-income countries <https://obgyn.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1471-0528.17220>`_
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