Infant Mortality

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A Trial of Hyperimmune Globulin to Prevent Congenital Cytomegalovirus Infection. 
  • A retrospective cohort study to quantify the contribution of health systems to child survival in Kenya: 1996-2014. 
  • A retrospective review of gastroschisis epidemiology and referral patterns in northern Ghana. 
  • A simulation based technique to estimate intracluster correlation for a binary variable. 
  • Accountable Care Reforms Improve Women's And Children's Health In Nepal. 
  • Advancing obstetric and neonatal care in a regional hospital in Ghana via continuous quality improvement. 
  • Advantages of Bayesian monitoring methods in deciding whether and when to stop a clinical trial: an example of a neonatal cooling trial. 
  • Adverse cardiac events in children with Williams syndrome undergoing cardiovascular surgery: An analysis of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons Congenital Heart Surgery Database. 
  • Age-specific mortality trends in France and Italy since 1900: period and cohort effects. 
  • Aggressive vs. conservative phototherapy for infants with extremely low birth weight. 
  • American Indian and Alaska Native infant and pediatric mortality, United States, 1999-2009. 
  • An analysis of the reasons for Japan's low infant mortality rate. 
  • Analysis of the equity of emergency medical services: a cross-sectional survey in Chongqing city. 
  • Antifungal therapy and outcomes in infants with invasive Candida infections. 
  • Are births underreported in rural China? Manipulation of statistical records in response to China's population policies. 
  • Assessment of an Updated Neonatal Research Network Extremely Preterm Birth Outcome Model in the Vermont Oxford Network. 
  • Association between Policy Changes for Oxygen Saturation Alarm Settings and Neonatal Morbidity and Mortality in Infants Born Very Preterm. 
  • Association between early postnatal weight loss and death or BPD in small and appropriate for gestational age extremely low-birth-weight infants. 
  • Association of Antenatal Steroid Exposure at 21 to 22 Weeks of Gestation With Neonatal Survival and Survival Without Morbidities. 
  • Association of antenatal corticosteroids with mortality and neurodevelopmental outcomes among infants born at 22 to 25 weeks' gestation. 
  • Association of chorioamnionitis and its duration with neonatal morbidity and mortality. 
  • Association of in utero magnesium exposure and spontaneous intestinal perforations in extremely low birth weight infants. 
  • Avoiding 40% of the premature deaths in each country, 2010-30: review of national mortality trends to help quantify the UN sustainable development goal for health. 
  • Between-hospital variation in treatment and outcomes in extremely preterm infants. 
  • Birth spacing, breastfeeding, and early child mortality in a traditional Indian society: a hazards model analysis. 
  • Black women health inequity: The origin of perinatal health disparity. 
  • Burden of Invasive Staphylococcus aureus Infections in Hospitalized Infants. 
  • Burden of Neonatal Surgical Conditions in Northern Ghana. 
  • Cardiopulmonary resuscitation in hospitalized infants. 
  • Cause, timing, and location of death in the Single Ventricle Reconstruction trial. 
  • Causes and timing of death in extremely premature infants from 2000 through 2011. 
  • Causes of community stillbirths and early neonatal deaths in low-income countries using verbal autopsy: an International, Multicenter Study. 
  • Changes in childhood pneumonia and infant mortality rates following introduction of the 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine in Nicaragua. 
  • Characteristics of patients who die of necrotizing enterocolitis. 
  • Characterization of Death in Infants With Neonatal Seizures. 
  • Child survival, height for age and household characteristics in Brazil. 
  • Children in dark times: a year of silent emergency. 
  • Community-based newborn care in Bangladesh. 
  • Comparative analysis of antifibrinolytic medications in pediatric heart surgery. 
  • Comprehending the lack of access to maternal and neonatal emergency care: Designing solutions based on a space-time approach. 
  • Daily mortality of infants born at less than 30weeks' gestation. 
  • Defining Surgical Workforce Density Targets to Meet Child and Neonatal Mortality Rate Targets in the Age of the Sustainable Development Goals: A Global Cross-Sectional Study. 
  • Disparities in maternal hypertension and pregnancy outcomes: evidence from North Carolina, 1994-2003. 
  • Drivers of the reduction in childhood diarrhea mortality 1980-2015 and interventions to eliminate preventable diarrhea deaths by 2030. 
  • Drug use and HIV/AIDS in Burma. 
  • Early CPAP versus surfactant in extremely preterm infants. 
  • Effect of WHO newborn care training on neonatal mortality by education. 
  • Effect of fluconazole prophylaxis on candidiasis and mortality in premature infants: a randomized clinical trial. 
  • Effect of health systems context on infant and child mortality in sub-Saharan Africa from 1995 to 2015, a longitudinal cohort analysis. 
  • Effects of the threat of medical malpractice litigation and other factors on birth outcomes. 
  • Expanding Prenatal Care to Unauthorized Immigrant Women and the Effects on Infant Health. 
  • Extending Delivery Coverage to Include Prenatal Care for Low-Income, Immigrant Women Is a Cost-Effective Strategy. 
  • Extremely low birth weight and infant mortality rates in the United States. 
  • Factors Associated With Early Deaths Following Neonatal Male Circumcision in the United States, 2001 to 2010. 
  • Factors Associated with Early Neonatal and First-Year Mortality in Infants with Myelomeningocele in California from 2006 to 2011. 
  • Factors associated with the decline in under-five diarrhea mortality in India: a LiST analysis. 
  • Fetal nicotine or cocaine exposure: which one is worse? 
  • Frequency of anomalies and hospital outcomes in infants with gastroschisis and omphalocele. 
  • Gastroschisis: the effect of labor and ruptured membranes on neonatal outcome. 
  • Gestational age at initiation of 17-alpha hydroxyprogesterone caproate and recurrent preterm birth. 
  • Global, regional, and national progress towards Sustainable Development Goal 3.2 for neonatal and child health: all-cause and cause-specific mortality findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019. 
  • Global, regional, national, and selected subnational levels of stillbirths, neonatal, infant, and under-5 mortality, 1980-2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015. 
  • Health Care Disparity and State-Specific Pregnancy-Related Mortality in the United States, 2005-2014. 
  • Impact evaluation of a maternal and neonatal health training intervention in private Ugandan facilities. 
  • Impact of socioeconomic factors and health determinants on preterm birth in Brazil: a register-based study. 
  • Improved survival and neurodevelopmental outcomes among extremely premature infants born near the limit of viability. 
  • Infant Mortality Lessons Learned from a Fetal and Infant Mortality Review Program. 
  • Infant and child deaths in acute care settings: implications for palliative care. 
  • Infant and child mortality in India in the last two decades: A Geospatial Analysis 
  • Infectious diseases in pregnancy. 
  • Interstage mortality after the Norwood procedure: Results of the multicenter Single Ventricle Reconstruction trial. 
  • Mapping 123 million neonatal, infant and child deaths between 2000 and 2017. 
  • Marketing child survival. 
  • Maternal and neonatal outcomes of grand multiparas over two decades in Mali. 
  • Measuring progress and projecting attainment on the basis of past trends of the health-related Sustainable Development Goals in 188 countries: an analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016. 
  • Modeling community-level effects on preterm birth. 
  • Mortality Risk Factors among Infants Receiving Dialysis in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. 
  • Mortality and neurodevelopmental outcome after Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia in infants. 
  • Mortality rates in conflict zones in Karen, Karenni, and Mon states in eastern Burma. 
  • Mortality, In-Hospital Morbidity, Care Practices, and 2-Year Outcomes for Extremely Preterm Infants in the US, 2013-2018. 
  • Multidisciplinary Development of a Low-Cost Gastroschisis Silo for Use in Sub-Saharan Africa. 
  • Multidisciplinary team partnerships to improve maternal and neonatal outcomes: the Kybele experience. 
  • Multilevel quantile function modeling with application to birth outcomes. 
  • Neonatal Outcomes Associated with Noncephalic Presentation at Delivery in Preterm Birth. 
  • Neonatal outcomes of moderately preterm infants compared to extremely preterm infants. 
  • Neonatal, infant, and under-5 mortality and morbidity burden in the Eastern Mediterranean region: findings from the Global Burden of Disease 2015 study. 
  • Newborn-care training and perinatal mortality in developing countries. 
  • Non-immune hydrops after 20 weeks' gestation: review of 10 years' experience with suggestions for management. 
  • Nutrition for the diabetic pregnant woman. 
  • Omphalocele: clinical outcomes in cases with normal karyotypes. 
  • Outcome of infants delivered between 24 and 28 weeks' gestation in women with severe pre-eclampsia. 
  • Outcome of patients undergoing transabdominal cerclage: a descriptive study. 
  • Outcome of triplet and quadruplet pregnancies resulting from in vitro fertilization. 
  • Outcomes of Preterm Infants following Discussions about Withdrawal or Withholding of Life Support. 
  • PROLONG Clinical Study Protocol: Hydroxyprogesterone Caproate to Reduce Recurrent Preterm Birth. 
  • Pediatrics and the unwanted child in history: foundling homes, disease, and the origins of foster care in New York City, 1860 to 1920. 
  • Personality Traits and Performance Contracts: Evidence from a Field Experiment among Maternity Care Providers in India 
  • Population-based survey methods to quantify associations between human rights violations and health outcomes among internally displaced persons in eastern Burma. 
  • Postnatal Cytomegalovirus Infection and the Risk for Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia. 
  • Potentially Avertable Child Mortality Associated with Surgical Workforce Scale-up in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Global Study. 
  • Preeclampsia into eclampsia: toward a new paradigm. 
  • Prenatal diagnosis and the pediatric surgeon: the impact of prenatal consultation on perinatal management. 
  • Preventable losses: infant mortality increases in Venezuela. 
  • Prolonged hospital stay for extremely premature infants: risk factors, center differences, and the impact of mortality on selecting a best-performing center. 
  • Racial and ethnic differences in infant mortality and low birth weight. A psychosocial critique. 
  • Racial/ethnic differences in necrotizing enterocolitis incidence and outcomes in premature very low birth weight infants. 
  • Reducing infant mortality in North Carolina. 
  • Relationship Between Cesarean Delivery Rate and Maternal and Neonatal Mortality. 
  • Renal biopsy and pregnancy. 
  • Retinopathy of prematurity. A randomized, prospective trial of transcutaneous oxygen monitoring. 
  • Review clears Brompton surgeons. 
  • Safety of Enalapril in Infants Admitted to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. 
  • Safety of histamine-2 receptor blockers in hospitalized VLBW infants. 
  • Saving neonatal lives by improving infection prevention in low-resource units: tools are needed. 
  • Selective management of abruptio placentae: a prospective study. 
  • Small area variation in low birthweight: looking beyond socioeconomic predictors. 
  • Spatial autocorrelation in uptake of antenatal care and relationship to individual, household and village-level factors: results from a community-based survey of pregnant women in six districts in western Kenya. 
  • Stage 1 hybrid palliation for hypoplastic left heart syndrome--assessment of contemporary patterns of use: an analysis of The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Congenital Heart Surgery Database. 
  • Survival and Neurodevelopmental Outcomes among Periviable Infants. 
  • Target ranges of oxygen saturation in extremely preterm infants. 
  • Technologies for global health. 
  • The Association of Hydrocortisone Dosage on Mortality in Infants Born Extremely Premature. 
  • The Prevalence and Impact of Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia Among Patients Undergoing Surgery for Congenital Heart Disease. 
  • The effect of community nurses and health volunteers on child mortality: the Navrongo Community Health and Family Planning Project. 
  • The effect of systematic pediatric care on neonatal mortality and hospitalizations of infants born with oral clefts. 
  • The effect of women's status on infant and child mortality in four rural areas of Bangladesh. 
  • The impact of the Women, Infants and Children Food Supplement Program on birth outcome. 
  • The importance of pregnancy planning in lupus pregnancies. 
  • Third-Trimester Prenatal Syphilis Screening: A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis. 
  • Timing and causes of neonatal mortality in Tamale Teaching Hospital, Ghana: A retrospective study. 
  • Treatment outcomes of necrotizing enterocolitis for preterm infants. 
  • Use of prophylactic antibiotics in women with previable prelabor rupture of membranes. 
  • Where do poor women in developing countries give birth? A multi-country analysis of demographic and health survey data. 
  • [Revolution for the benefit of the children?]. 
  • [Spatial analysis of the quality of Primary Health Care services in reducing child mortality]. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Merli, M. Giovanna, Professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke Global Health Institute