Table 5.
Summary of subgroup analysis on mortality rate among preterm in Eastern Africa by country, design, year of publication, and sample size from January 2012–December 2020.
| Variable | Characteristics | Pooled prevalence % (95%CI) |
I2, (p-value) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Country | Ethiopia | 23.7 (17.2–30.3) | 98.2% (<0.001) |
| Tanzania | 14.3 (4.5–24.1) | 98.4% (<0.001) | |
| Burundi | 24.5 (17.0–31.9) | 74.1% (<0.049) | |
| Eritrea | 10.9 (0.4–21.4) | 94.7% (<0.001) | |
| Uganda | 17.2 (3.8–30.6) | 98.1% (<0.001) | |
| By study design | Prospective cohort | 18.1 (12.0–24.2) | 93.3% (<0.001) |
| Retrospective Cohort | 19.4 (14.1–24.8) | 99.0% (<0.001) | |
| Cross-sectional | 19.7 (14.3–25.1) | 98.3% (<0.001) | |
| By the year of publication | 2012–2018 | 19.2 (13.8–24.6) | 98.7% (<0.001) |
| 2019–2020 | 19.3 (15.0–23.7) | 98.3% (<0.001) | |
| By sample size | <350 | 19.2 (16.0–22.4) | 92.8% (<0.001) |
| ≥350 | 17.9 (13.9–22.0) | 99.0% (<0.001) |