Danielle E Y Ehret, Asrat Demtse Gebremedhin, Amanuel Hadgu Berhe, Yohanes Hailu, Gesit Metaferia, Kaitlin Kessler, Ryan Kessler, Marie Dunn, Agneta Golan, Miroslav Stavel, Jaroslava Belava, Jeffrey D Horbar, Erika M Edwards, Bogale Worku, Michael Dunn, Mahlet Abayneh
AIM: To assess the inter-rater reliability of modified Downes' scores assigned by physicians and nurses in the Ethiopian Neonatal Network and to calculate the concordance of score-based treatment for preterm infants with respiratory distress. METHODS: We included preterm infants admitted from June 2020 to July 2021 to four tertiary neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) of the Ethiopian Neonatal Network that presented with respiratory distress. We calculated the kappa statistic to determine the nurse and physician correlation for each component of the modified Downes' score and total score on admission and evaluated the concordance of scores above and below the treatment threshold of 4...
September 7, 2023: Acta Paediatrica