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Appendix J: Excluded studies

Reference Reason for exclusion
Owa JA, Durosinmi MA, and Alabi AO. Determinants of severity of neonatal hyperbilirubinaemia in ABO incompatibility in Study only included babies with ABO
Nigeria. Tropical Doctor 1991; 21:(1)19–22. incompatibility
Palmer DC and Drew JH. Jaundice: a 10 year review of 41,000 live born infants. Australian Paediatric Journal 1983; 19:(2)86–9. Study was superseded by a 15 year analysis of this
data
Pashapour N, Nikibahksh AA, and Golmohammadlou S. Urinary tract infection in term neonates with prolonged jaundice. Babies were only tested for urinary tract infections
Urology Journal 2007; 4:(2)91–4.
Pays M and Beljean M. Microdetermination of unbound bilirubin. Application to the prevention of kernicterus by estimation of Conference abstract
the serum bilirubin binding capacity in neonatal hyperbilirubinemia. Zeitschrift fur Klinische Chemie und Klinische Biochemie
1974; 12:(5)250–1.
Penberthy L, St JA, and Blake G. Bilirubin analyses in neonatal jaundice. Medical Journal of Australia 1978; 1:(12)659. Correspondence
Polacek K. Risk of kernicterus in newborn infants with a high level of conjugated bilirubin. Acta Paediatrica Scandinavica 1966; Only babies with conjugated hyperbilirubinaemia
55:(4)401–4. were included
Priolisi A and Ziino L. Comparative analysis between the reserve albumin-binding capacity (HBABA method) and the saturation Tests not relevant to guideline
index of hyperbilirubinemic sera. Biology of the Neonate 1971; 19:(4)258–71.
Priolisi A. Clinical experience with Sephadex gel filtration for the estimation of non-albumin bound bilirubin in sera of jaundiced No test for G6PD
infants. Birth Defects: Original Article Series 1976; 12:(2)245–54.
Rastogi D and Rastogi S. Neonatal hyperbilirubinemia in healthy breast-fed newborn: Assessment at discharge. Emergency and Case study
Office Pediatrics 1999; 12:(3)100–2.
Ratnavel N and Ives NK. Investigation of prolonged neonatal jaundice. Current Paediatrics 2005; 15:(2)85–91. Overview
Rehman H, Khan MA, Hameed A et al. Erythrocyte glucose 6 phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency and neonatal jaundice. JPMA - Incomplete data – numbers with blood group
Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association 1995; 45:(10)259–60. incompatibility not given
Reiser DJ. Neonatal jaundice: physiologic variation or pathologic process. Critical Care Nursing Clinics of North America 2004; Overview
16:(2)257–69.
Ritter DA, Kenny JD, Norton HJ et al. A prospective study of free bilirubin and other risk factors in the development of kernicterus Not all babies who died had an autopsy
in premature infants. Pediatrics 1982; 69:(3)260–6.
Rolinski B, Kuster H, Ugele B et al. Total bilirubin measurement by photometry on a blood gas analyzer: potential for use in Comparison of methods to measure serum
neonatal testing at the point of care. Clinical Chemistry 2001; 47:(10)1845–7. bilirubin
Roux P, Karabus CD, and Hartley PS. The effect of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency on the severity of neonatal Babies with blood group incompatibility were
jaundice in Cape Town. South African Medical Journal 1982; 61:(21)781–2. excluded
Sansone G, Perroni L, and Yoshida A. Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase variants from Italian subjects associated with severe Three cases studies
neonatal jaundice. British Journal of Haematology 1975; 31:(2)159–65.
Sarici SU, Serdar MA, Erdem G et al. Evaluation of plasma ionized magnesium levels in neonatal hyperbilirubinemia. Pediatric Babies with ABO/Rh incompatibility or G6PD
Research 2004; 55:(2)243–7. deficiency were excluded
Sarma DK, Shukla R, Lodha A et al. Neonatal screening for glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency: Experience in Babies only tested for G6PD deficiency
a private hospital. Emirates Medical Journal 2006; 24:(3)211–4.

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