Objective: To evaluate impact of simple interventions on neonatal mortality in a low-resource
teaching hospital in India. Study design: Before-and-after intervention trial setting: limited …

Background: Long-term, sustainable programs to address high incidence and death rates
from neonatal infections are required for improving child survival. There is an urgent need to …

Background Neonatal sepsis is one of the major causes of death during the first month of life
and early empirical treatment with injectable antibiotics is a life-saving intervention …

Objective To estimate the direct causes of mortality among preterm neonates< 33 weeks'
gestation by examining three large multicentric, hospital-based datasets in India. Method …

This study was conducted to compare the survival and morbidity of extremely low birth
weight neonates born during two different time periods (2009–10 and 2001–02) at a Level III …

Background Neonatal mortality currently accounts for 41% of all global deaths among
children below five years. Despite recording a 33% decline in neonatal deaths between …

Background Neonatal care is not available to most neonates in developing countries
because hospitals are inaccessible and costly. We developed a package of home based …

Background Each year almost one million newborns die from infections, mostly in low-
income countries. Timely case management would save many lives but the relative mortality …

OBJECTIVE: The skin is a potential source for invasive infections in neonates from
developing countries such as Bangladesh, where the level of environmental contamination …

Background Pediatric sepsis has a high mortality rate in limited resource settings. Sepsis
protocols have been shown to be a cost-effective strategy to improve morbidity and mortality …