| Title: |
Deaths with preceding hospitalisations within 180 days in eight countries in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia: A secondary descriptive analysis of the Child Health and Mortality Prevention Surveillance (CHAMPS) network. |
| Authors: |
Varo, Rosauro; Cole, Kaitlin; Madewell, Zachary J; Iglesias, Jaime Fanjul; Igunza, Kitiezo Aggrey; Akelo, Victor; Mugah, Christopher; Onyango, Dickens; Were, Joyce A; Madhi, Shabir A; Dangor, Ziyaad; Johnstone, Siobhan; Lala, Sanjay G; Ruder, Tanya; Mandomando, Inacio; Kincardett, Milton; Xerinda, Elisio G; Scott, J Anthony G; Assefa, Nega; Madrid, Lola; Hassen, Faisel A; Edris, Yunus; Ogbuanu, Ikechukwu; Bassey, Ima-Abasi; Samura, Solomon; Sillah, Abdul Salaam; Kaluma, Erick; Arifeen, Shams El; Biswas, Rajib; Gurley, Emily S; Rahman, Afruna; Hossain, Mohammad Zahid; Omer, Saad B; Kazi, Abdul Momin; Belgaumi, Sameer M; Allana, Raheel; Keita, Adama M; Bassat, Quique; Mutevedzi, Portia C; Whitney, Cynthia G; Rees, Chris A; Child Health and Mortality Prevention Surveillance (CHAMPS) Netw |
| Publisher Information: |
BMJ |
| Publication Year: |
2026 |
| Collection: |
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine: LSHTM Research Online |
| Description: |
OBJECTIVES: To describe (1) the proportion of deaths that were in recently hospitalised children and (2) causes of mortality among deceased children aged 0-59 months with preceding hospitalisations who enrolled in a mortality surveillance programme. DESIGN: Descriptive study using prospectively collected data. SETTING: Eight Child Health and Mortality Prevention Surveillance (CHAMPS) community and healthcare sites in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. PARTICIPANTS: Deaths among children aged 0-59 months enrolled in CHAMPS 2016-2023. INTERVENTIONS: None. PRIMARY AND SECONDARY OUTCOME MEASURES: Deaths with antecedent hospitalisations within 180 days of death. Causes of death determined by expert panels who reviewed clinical data and histopathologic and microbiologic results from postmortem minimally invasive tissue sampling. RESULTS: CHAMPS enrolled 8548 deaths; we excluded 3688 neonates who died before discharge or ≤24 hours of birth and 482 with unclear information on antecedent hospitalisations. Out of the 4378 remaining deaths, 16.7% (95% CI 15.7% to 17.9%) were deaths that occurred within 180 days of a hospitalisation (n=733/4378). Of these, 55.7% (95% CI 52.0% to 59.3%) occurred outside healthcare facilities. Among included deaths with minimally invasive tissue sampling completed (n=337), lower respiratory tract infections (41.2%, 95% CI 36.0% to 46.7%), sepsis (39.8%, 95% CI 34.5% to 45.2%) and undernutrition (n=92, 27.3%, 95% CI 22.7% to 32.4%) were most common causes of death among cases with antecedent hospitalisations. The greatest proportion of deaths with antecedent hospital admissions occurred among cases aged 1-11 months (48.0%, 95% CI 44.4% to 51.7%), compared with those aged 0-1 months (21.7%, 95% CI 18.8% to 24.9%) and those aged 1-5 years (30.3%, 95% CI 27.0% to 33.8%). Moreover, the greatest proportion of deaths with antecedent hospital admissions occurred among infants/children with weight-for-age Z-score of |
| Document Type: |
article in journal/newspaper |
| File Description: |
text |
| Language: |
English |
| ISSN: |
2044-6055 |
| Relation: |
https://researchonline.lshtm.ac.uk/id/eprint/4681775/1/Varo-etal-2026-Deaths-with-preceding-hospitalisations.pdf; Varo, Rosauro; Cole, Kaitlin; Madewell, Zachary JORCID logo; Iglesias, Jaime Fanjul; Igunza, Kitiezo Aggrey; Akelo, Victor; Mugah, Christopher; Onyango, Dickens; Were, Joyce A; Madhi, Shabir A; +32 more.Dangor, Ziyaad; Johnstone, Siobhan; Lala, Sanjay G; Ruder, Tanya; Mandomando, Inacio; Kincardett, Milton; Xerinda, Elisio G; Scott, J Anthony G ORCID logo; Assefa, Nega ORCID logo; Madrid, Lola; Hassen, Faisel AORCID logo; Edris, Yunus; Ogbuanu, Ikechukwu; Bassey, Ima-Abasi; Samura, Solomon; Sillah, Abdul Salaam; Kaluma, Erick; Arifeen, Shams El; Biswas, RajibORCID logo; Gurley, Emily S; Rahman, Afruna; Hossain, Mohammad Zahid; Omer, Saad B; Kazi, Abdul MominORCID logo; Belgaumi, Sameer MORCID logo; Allana, Raheel; Keita, Adama M; Bassat, QuiqueORCID logo; Mutevedzi, Portia C; Whitney, Cynthia G; Rees, Chris AORCID logo; and Child Health and Mortality Prevention Surveillance (CHAMPS) Netw (2026) Deaths with preceding hospitalisations within 180 days in eight countries in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia: A secondary descriptive analysis of the Child Health and Mortality Prevention Surveillance (CHAMPS) network. BMJ open, 16 (3). e106095-. ISSN 2044-6055 DOI:10.1136/bmjopen-2025-106095 |
| DOI: |
10.1136/bmjopen-2025-106095 |
| Availability: |
https://researchonline.lshtm.ac.uk/id/eprint/4681775/; https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2025-106095 |
| Rights: |
cc_by_4 |
| Accession Number: |
edsbas.494537CD |
| Database: |
BASE |