Validation of visual estimation of neonatal jaundice in low-income and middle-income countries: a multicentre observational cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Determine the sensitivity and specificity of neonatal jaundice visual estimation by primary healthcare workers (PHWs) and physicians as predictors of hyperbilirubinaemia.

Design

Multicentre observational cohort study.

Setting

Hospitals in Chandigarh and Delhi, India; Dhaka, Bangladesh; Durban, South Africa; Kumasi, Ghana; La Paz, Bolivia.

Participants

Neonates aged 1-20 days (n=2642) who presented to hospitals for evaluation of acute illness. Infants referred for any reason from another health facility or those needing immediate cardiopulmonary resuscitation were excluded.

Outcome measures

Infants were evaluated for distribution (head, trunk, distal extremities) and degree (mild, moderate, severe) of jaundice by PHWs and physicians. Serum bilir

SUBMITTER: Darmstadt GL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8720979 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature