Table 2 Description of identified neonatal individual-level datasets by variable categories
Type | Individual-Level Datasets | ||||||
Tool | Neonatal Nutrition Network | Clinical Information Networkc | CPAP Data Summaryd | WHO iKMC Study | SNCU Facility Based Newborn Care Database | Vermont Oxford Global Database | NEST360 Neonatal Inpatient Dataset |
Reference | [32] | [27] | [29] | [21] | [31] | - | |
Country | Nigeria | Kenya | Malawi | Multi-Country | India | Multi-Country | Multi-Country |
No. Variables | 69 | 120 | 55 | 254 | 113 | 64 | 60 |
Purpose | Research (Newborn Nutrition) | Research (Monitoring Data Quality) | Research (Oxygen Therapy and CPAP Use and Outcome) | Research (KMC Use and Outcome) | Programme (Monitoring Outcomes) | Programme (Quality Improvement) | Alliance (Quality Improvement and Tracking Outcomes) |
Category | Number of Variables (Proportion of Variables, %) | ||||||
Maternal Historya | 23 (33%) | 19 (16%) | 4 (7%) | 67 (26%) | 41 (36%) | 14 (22%) | 6 (10%) |
Birth Details | 7 (10%) | 9 (8%) | 8 (15%) | 27 (11%) | 14 (12%) | 13 (20%) | 8 (13%) |
Admission Details and Identifiers | 8 (12%) | 25 (21%) | 14 (26%) | 28 (11%) | 17 (15%) | 6 (9%) | 14 (23%) |
Newborn Complications and Observations | 1 (1%) | 25 (21%) | 13 (24%) | 56 (22%) | 32 (28%) | 1 (2%) | 11 (18%) |
Newborn Interventionsb | 16 (23%) | 34 (28%) | 13 (24%) | 49 (19%) | 2e (2%) | 14 (22%) | 13 (22%) |
Discharge Outcomes, Diagnosis, Cause of Death | 14 (20%) | 7 (6%) | 3 (6%) | 21 (8%) | 7 (6%) | 16 (25%) | 7 (12%) |
Post Discharge Follow-up | 0 (0%) | 1 (1%) | 0 (0%) | 6 (2%) | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 1 (2%) |