1. Reporting of fetal, neonatal and perinatal death.
Trial | Fetal death (FD) | Intrapartum death | Stillbirth | Neonatal death (NND) | Perinatal death (PND) | Included inDodd 2013? | Decision for PND for multiples review? |
Aboulghar 2012 | ‐ | ‐ | ‐ | Reported as maternal outcome. From text appears as if at least one pregnancy affected by demise of both twins | ‐ | Yes | Cannot reliably convert maternal denominator for neonatal outcome. Data not included |
Awwad 2015 | Yes | ‐ | ‐ | ‐ | Yes, as a baby outcome. | N/A | Include |
Cetingoz 2011 | No death data | ‐ | ‐ | ‐ | ‐ | No PND reported | N/A |
Serra 2013 | Fetal death reported as maternal outcome and only as a single co‐twin demise outcome. Unsure if any pregnancies where both twins died | ‐ | ‐ | Yes, as a baby outcome | Not reported. Cannot convert fetal death into a baby outcome because only reported if single twin demise likely to underestimate | Yes | Data not included. |
Norman 2009 | Reported as a maternal outcome and denominator not clear | ‐ | ‐ | Yes | No | No | No |
Rode 2011 | Yes. as maternal outcome but specifies only 1 twin affected in each of those pregnancies | ‐ | ‐ | Yes | In text | Yes | Yes |
Wood 2012 | ‐ | ‐ | ‐ | ‐ | Yes, as infant outcome | N/A | Yes |
Awwad 2015 | ‐ | ‐ | Yes | Yes | Yes, as infant outcome | N/A | Yes |
Briery 2009 | ‐ | ‐ | ‐ | Yes | ‐ | No PND reported | N/A |
Combs 2010triplets | ‐ | ‐ | ‐ | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Combs 2011twins | ‐ | ‐ | ‐ | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Hartikainen‐Sorri 1980 | ‐ | ‐ | ‐ | ‐ | Yes in text | Yes | Yes |
Lim 2011 | ‐ | 1 or more died during delivery after 24 wks and also any IUD before onset labour or onset delivery | Reported “all live births” | ‐ | No, and cannot be reliably added up from data presented | Yes | Data not included |
Rouse 2007 | Yes | ‐ | ‐ | Yes | Yes, from text (not in table) | No ‐ not sure why data not included | Yes |
Senat 2013 | Yes | Yes | ‐ | Yes | Can add NND and FD (IP and IU); all Ns clear | No ‐ not sure why data not included | Yes. Extrapolated from text and checked |
Caritis 2009 | Yes, as a maternal outcome | ‐ | ‐ | Yes | Cannot add FD and NND because FD reported as a maternal outcome | No | Data not included |
IP: intrapartum IU: intra‐uterine IUD: intra‐uterine death N/A: not applicable wk: week