Figure 1.

Flowchart of children included in this study. Flowchart shows children excluded via both data quality and per definition of study population. For the primary analysis we analyzed 629 children dying under age 6 months (473 in-hospital deaths and 156 community deaths). For the secondary analysis we analyzed 661 children dying under age 12 months (611 in-hospital deaths and 50 community deaths). GOLD I: Pediatric deaths published as a retrospective case series from 1 November 2014 to 31 October 2015 [9]. GOLD II includes pediatric deaths collected after this publication. Abbreviations: m, months; BMGF, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; GOLD, Global Online Mortality Database; RSV, respiratory syncytial virus; ZPRIME, Zambia Pertussis RSV Infant Mortality Estimation Study.