TY - JOUR
T1 - Treatment options and barriers to case management of neonatal pneumonia in India
T2 - A protocol for a scoping review
AU - Nair, N. Sreekumaran
AU - Lewis, Leslie Edward
AU - Murthy, Shruti
AU - Godinho, Myron Anthony
AU - Lakiang, Theophilus
AU - Venkatesh, Bhumika T.
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgements The authors would like to thank the following individuals for their continuous support and guidance during this process of protocol development: Dr Manoj Das, Director Projects, The INCLEN Trust International, New Delhi; Dr Anju Sinha, Deputy Director General, Scientist ‘E’, Division of Child Health, Indian Council of Medical Research, New Delhi; Dr KK Diwakar, Professor and Head, Department of Neonatology, Associate Dean, Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church Medical College, Kerala; Mrs Ratheebhai V, Senior Librarian and Information Scientist, at Manipal School at Communication, Manipal University, Manipal; Dr Ravinder M Pandey, Professor and Head, Department of Biostatistics, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi; Dr B Shantharam Baliga, Professor, Department of Paediatrics, Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore, Karnataka,; Dr Shirish Darak, Senior Researcher, PRAYAS, Pune, Maharashtra; Dr Unnikrishnan B, Associate Dean and Professor, Department of Community Medicine, Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore. They also thank Public Health Evidence South Asia (PHESA) and Manipal University, Manipal for providing the necessary institutional and infrastructural support for the project. They would also like to thank The INCLEN Trust International, New Delhi, and The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for the financial support which made this project possible.
Funding Information:
Funding This project is supported by a grant from Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (grant OPP1084307) to The INCLEN Trust International and sub-grant to Manipal University (subgrant INC2015GNT004). The views expressed through this project do not necessarily represent the views of Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation or The INCLEN Trust International or Manipal University.
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PY - 2017/9/1
Y1 - 2017/9/1
N2 - Introduction India contributes to the highest neonatal deaths globally. Case management is said to be the cornerstone of pneumonia control. Much of the published evidence focuses on children aged 1 to 59 months. This scoping review, thus, aims to identify the treatment options for and barriers to case management of neonatal pneumonia in India. Methods and analysis This protocol is part of a series of three reviews on neonatal pneumonia in India. Studies addressing treatment of or barriers to case management of neonatal pneumonia in Indian context, published in English in peer-reviewed and indexed journals will be eligible for inclusion. Electronic search will be conducted on nine databases. Hand searching and snowballing will be done for published and grey literature. Selection of studies will be done in title, abstract and full-text stages. A narrative summary will be performed to summarise the details of evidence. Ethics and dissemination As this is a review involving analysis of secondary data which is available in the public domain and does not involve human participants, ethical approval was not required. The findings of the study will be shared with all stakeholders of this research. Knowledge dissemination workshops will be conducted with relevant stakeholders to ultimately transfer the evidence tailored to the stakeholder (eg, policy briefs, publications, information booklets and so on). PROSPERO 2016 CRD42016045449.
AB - Introduction India contributes to the highest neonatal deaths globally. Case management is said to be the cornerstone of pneumonia control. Much of the published evidence focuses on children aged 1 to 59 months. This scoping review, thus, aims to identify the treatment options for and barriers to case management of neonatal pneumonia in India. Methods and analysis This protocol is part of a series of three reviews on neonatal pneumonia in India. Studies addressing treatment of or barriers to case management of neonatal pneumonia in Indian context, published in English in peer-reviewed and indexed journals will be eligible for inclusion. Electronic search will be conducted on nine databases. Hand searching and snowballing will be done for published and grey literature. Selection of studies will be done in title, abstract and full-text stages. A narrative summary will be performed to summarise the details of evidence. Ethics and dissemination As this is a review involving analysis of secondary data which is available in the public domain and does not involve human participants, ethical approval was not required. The findings of the study will be shared with all stakeholders of this research. Knowledge dissemination workshops will be conducted with relevant stakeholders to ultimately transfer the evidence tailored to the stakeholder (eg, policy briefs, publications, information booklets and so on). PROSPERO 2016 CRD42016045449.
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U2 - 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-017617
DO - 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-017617
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85040617207
SN - 2044-6055
VL - 7
JO - BMJ Open
JF - BMJ Open
IS - 9
M1 - e017617
ER -