Josephine Shabani

Neonatal admissions and mortality: a statistical adjustment approach using birthweight-specific curves to address bias due to underreporting in 65 hospitals in four African countries

Underreporting of neonatal admissions and deaths – particularly among < 1000 g newborns – compromises the plausibility of in-patient neonatal mortality rate (iNMR) estimates. This limits progress tracking, since 2.3 million neonatal deaths occur annually, and 65 countries are projected to miss the Sustainable Dev...