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Abstract
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
- neonate
- pneumonia
- treatment
- case management
- barriers
- scoping review
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Contributors NSN: guarantor of the review. NSN, BTV and LEL: conceived the research idea and reviewed the manuscript. NSN and LEL: provided overall technical guidance. LEL: assisted in developing search terms. SM, TL and MG: designed the protocol, drafted the manuscript and developed and pilot tested the search strategies and data extraction form.
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.
Competing interests All authors have completed the ICMJE uniform disclosure form atwww.icmje.org/coi_disclosure.pdf and declare: all authors had financial support (grants) from Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (grant OPP1084307) to The INCLEN Trust International and subgrant to Manipal University (subgrant INC2015GNT004)., during the conduct of the study and for the submitted work; no financial relationships with any organisations that might have an interest in the submitted work in the previous 3 years; no other relationships or activities that could appear to have influenced the submitted work.
Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.
Data sharing statement All data supporting this study will be provided as supplementary material together with the manuscript of the study’s final results.