Antenatal corticosteroids for women at risk of imminent preterm birth in low-resource countries: the case for equipoise and the need for efficacy trials.

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Published in BMJ Glob Health on August 30, 2017

Authors

Joshua P Vogel1, Olufemi T Oladapo1, Cynthia Pileggi-Castro2, Ebunoluwa A Adejuyigbe3, Fernando Althabe4, Shabina Ariff5, Adejumoke Idowu Ayede6, Abdullah H Baqui7, Anthony Costello2, Davy M Chikamata8, Caroline Crowther9, Bukola Fawole10, Luz Gibbons4, Alan H Jobe11, Monica Lulu Kapasa12, John Kinuthia13, Alka Kriplani14, Oluwafemi Kuti15, James Neilson16, Janna Patterson17, Gilda Piaggio18, Rahat Qureshi19, Zahida Qureshi20, Mari Jeeva Sankar21, Jeffrey S A Stringer22, Marleen Temmerman1, Khalid Yunis23, Rajiv Bahl2, A Metin Gülmezoglu1

Author Affiliations

1: UNDP/UNFPA/UNICEF/WHO/World Bank Special Programme of Research, Development and Research Training in Human Reproduction (HRP), Department of Reproductive Health and Research, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.
2: Department of Maternal Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.
3: Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ife, Nigeria.
4: Department of Mother and Child Health Research for Clinical Effectiveness and Health Policy (IECS), Buenos Aires, Argentina.
5: Department of Pediatrics & Child Health, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan.
6: Department of Paediatrics, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria.
7: International Center for Maternal and Newborn Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
8: Ministry of Community Development, Mother & Child Health, Lusaka, Zambia.
9: Liggins Institute, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.
10: Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria.
11: Department of Pediatrics, Cincinnati Childrens Hospital, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.
12: Department of Paediatrics, University Teaching Hospital, Lusaka, Zambia.
13: Department of Research & Programs, Kenyatta National Hospital, Nairobi, Kenya.
14: All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.
15: Department of Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Perinatology, College of Health Sciences, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ife, Nigeria.
16: Department of Women's and Children's Health, The University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK.
17: Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Geneva, Switzerland.
18: Department of Medical Statistics, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
19: Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan.
20: Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, School of Medicine, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya.
21: Department of Pediatrics, WHO Collaborating Centre for Training and Research in Newborn Care, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi, India.
22: University of North Carolina, School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.
23: National Collaborative Perinatal Neonatal Network, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon.

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