TY - JOUR
T1 - Estimating global, regional and national rotavirus deaths in children aged <5 years
T2 - Current approaches, new analyses and proposed improvements
AU - Global Rotavirus Surveillance Network
AU - Clark, Andrew
AU - Black, Robert
AU - Tate, Jacqueline
AU - Roose, Anna
AU - Kotloff, Karen
AU - Lam, Diana
AU - Blackwelder, William
AU - Parashar, Umesh
AU - Lanata, Claudio
AU - Kang, Gagandeep
AU - Troeger, Christopher
AU - Platts-Mills, James
AU - Mokdad, Ali
AU - Sanderson, Colin
AU - Lamberti, Laura
AU - Levine, Myron
AU - Santosham, Mathuram
AU - Steele, Duncan
AU - Soenarto, Yati
AU - Rugambwa, Celse
AU - Mpabalwani, Evans
AU - Mwenda, Jason
AU - Murray, Jill
AU - Cohen, Adam
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PY - 2017/9
Y1 - 2017/9
N2 - Background: Rotavirus is a leading cause of diarrhoeal mortality in children but there is considerable disagreement about how many deaths occur each year. Methods and findings: We compared CHERG, GBD and WHO/CDC estimates of age under 5 years (U5) rotavirus deaths at the global, regional and national level using a standard year (2013) and standard list of 186 countries. The global estimates were 157,398 (CHERG), 122,322 (GBD) and 215,757 (WHO/CDC). The three groups used different methods: (i) to select data points for rotavirus-positive proportions; (ii) to extrapolate data points to individual countries; (iii) to account for rotavirus vaccine coverage; (iv) to convert rotavirus-positive proportions to rotavirus attributable fractions; and (v) to calculate uncertainty ranges. We conducted new analyses to inform future estimates. We found that acute watery diarrhoea was associated with 87% (95% CI 83–90%) of U5 diarrhoea hospitalisations based on data from 84 hospital sites in 9 countries, and 65% (95% CI 57–74%) of U5 diarrhoea deaths based on verbal autopsy reports from 9 country sites. We reanalysed data from the Global Enteric Multicenter Study (GEMS) and found 44% (55% in Asia, and 32% in Africa) rotavirus-positivity among U5 acute watery diarrhoea hospitalisations, and 28% rotavirus-positivity among U5 acute watery diarrhoea deaths. 97% (95% CI 95–98%) of the U5 diarrhoea hospitalisations that tested positive for rotavirus were entirely attributable to rotavirus. For all clinical syndromes combined the rotavirus attributable fraction was 34% (95% CI 31–36%). This increased by a factor of 1.08 (95% CI 1.02–1.14) when the GEMS results were reanalysed using a more sensitive molecular test. Conclusions: We developed consensus on seven proposals for improving the quality and transparency of future rotavirus mortality estimates.
AB - Background: Rotavirus is a leading cause of diarrhoeal mortality in children but there is considerable disagreement about how many deaths occur each year. Methods and findings: We compared CHERG, GBD and WHO/CDC estimates of age under 5 years (U5) rotavirus deaths at the global, regional and national level using a standard year (2013) and standard list of 186 countries. The global estimates were 157,398 (CHERG), 122,322 (GBD) and 215,757 (WHO/CDC). The three groups used different methods: (i) to select data points for rotavirus-positive proportions; (ii) to extrapolate data points to individual countries; (iii) to account for rotavirus vaccine coverage; (iv) to convert rotavirus-positive proportions to rotavirus attributable fractions; and (v) to calculate uncertainty ranges. We conducted new analyses to inform future estimates. We found that acute watery diarrhoea was associated with 87% (95% CI 83–90%) of U5 diarrhoea hospitalisations based on data from 84 hospital sites in 9 countries, and 65% (95% CI 57–74%) of U5 diarrhoea deaths based on verbal autopsy reports from 9 country sites. We reanalysed data from the Global Enteric Multicenter Study (GEMS) and found 44% (55% in Asia, and 32% in Africa) rotavirus-positivity among U5 acute watery diarrhoea hospitalisations, and 28% rotavirus-positivity among U5 acute watery diarrhoea deaths. 97% (95% CI 95–98%) of the U5 diarrhoea hospitalisations that tested positive for rotavirus were entirely attributable to rotavirus. For all clinical syndromes combined the rotavirus attributable fraction was 34% (95% CI 31–36%). This increased by a factor of 1.08 (95% CI 1.02–1.14) when the GEMS results were reanalysed using a more sensitive molecular test. Conclusions: We developed consensus on seven proposals for improving the quality and transparency of future rotavirus mortality estimates.
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U2 - 10.1371/journal.pone.0183392
DO - 10.1371/journal.pone.0183392
M3 - Article
C2 - 28892480
AN - SCOPUS:85029441701
SN - 1932-6203
VL - 12
JO - PLoS ONE
JF - PLoS ONE
IS - 9
M1 - e0183392
ER -