Neonatal Mortality Rates With and Without a Minimum Threshold

Fu-Wen Liang; Yu-Shan Chang; Chia-Sui Chou; Mei-Jy Jeng; Ichiro Kawachi; Tsung-Hsueh Lu

doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.47487

Neonatal Mortality Rates With and Without a Minimum Threshold

JAMA Netw Open. 2024 Nov 4;7(11):e2447487. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.47487.

Authors

Fu-Wen Liang^{1

2

3}, Yu-Shan Chang⁴, Chia-Sui Chou^{5

6}, Mei-Jy Jeng^{5

6}, Ichiro Kawachi⁷, Tsung-Hsueh Lu⁸

Affiliations

¹ Department of Public Health, College of Health Sciences, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
² Department of Medical Research, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
³ Center for Big Data Research, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
⁴ Department of Emergency Medicine, Chi Mei Medical Center, Tainan, Taiwan.
⁵ Neonatal Medical Care Center, Department of Pediatrics, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan.
⁶ Institute of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, College of Medicine, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taipei, Taiwan.
⁷ Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts.
⁸ Department of Public Health, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan.

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Plain language summary

This cross-sectional study examines international variations in neonatal mortality rates with and without minimum thresholds for gestational age (22 weeks) and birth weight (500 g) in 2010 and 2020.