Prevalence, risk factors and outcomes of neonatal hypothermia at admission at a tertiary neonatal unit, Kigali, Rwanda - a cross-sectional study.

Introduction: Thermoregulation remains a key physiological challenge faced by a neonate after delivery. We assessed the prevalence, risk factors and outcomes of hypothermia in admitted neonates at a tertiary teaching hospital of Kigali city in Rwanda.

Materials And Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted, from July 2013 to September 2017, of neonates who were admitted in the neonatology unit of the University Teaching Hospital of Kigali (CHUK) and whose admission temperature were recorded.

Correction: Retinopathy of prematurity in Rwanda: a prospective multi-centre study following introduction of screening and treatment services.

An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via a link at the top of the paper.In the original Article, Erwin Van Kerschaver was erroneously attributed an affiliation. This has been corrected in the XML,HTML and PDF versions of this Article.

Retinopathy of prematurity in Rwanda: a prospective multi-centre study following introduction of screening and treatment services.

Objectives: To investigate risk factors for retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) in a newly established ROP screening and management programme in Rwanda, Africa.

Methods: In this multi-centre prospective study 795/2222 (36%) babies fulfilled the inclusion criteria (gestational age (GA) < 35 weeks or birth weight (BW) < 1800 g or unstable clinical course), 424 (53%) of whom were screened for ROP. 270 died before the first screening.

Establishing a neonatal database in a tertiary hospital in Rwanda - an observational study.

: Monitoring and evaluation is vital in the quest to improve the quality of care and to reduce the morbidity and mortality of neonates in a resource-limited setting. Databases offer several advantages such as data on large cohorts of neonates and from multiple centres. : To establish a minimal dataset neonatal database in Kigali, Rwanda and to assess the quality and timing of the data entry process.