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Appendix H: Evidence tables

Bibliographic details Study type & Patient characteristics Test, Reference Standard, Results Reviewers Comments
Evidence level Threshold for a positive test
Country: USA Evidence Level: III Sample was split between those tested Need for phototherapy (no clear Overall rate of phototherapy
automatically (n = 113) and those definition) 12/301 (3.9%) Blinding: None
50 tested selectively (n = 188)
Rates of phototherapy
Mean GA: 39.4 weeks among universally tested babies 4/113
Mean BW: 3344 g (3.5%)
Gender: Males = 50.5% among selectively tested babies 8/188
Ethnicity: (4.3%)
White = 44.5%
Black = 16.3% Odds Ratio (OR) 0.83 (95% CI: 0.24 – 2.81)
Asian = 17.9%
Other = 21.3% Rates of readmission for phototherapy
among universally tested babies 2/113
Exclusion criteria: (1.8%)
babies in intensive care among selectively tested babies 1/188
(0.5%)

Odds Ratio (OR) 3.36
(0.32 – 37.58)

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