Abstract
Along with the individual trial findings the figure [contained in this comment]: Log odds of neonatal mortality associated with chlorhexidine cord cleansing by proportion of home deliveries in control group (A) and neonatal mortality in control group (B) is consonant with the current WHO guidelines for cord care to which we recommend no change. Cord cleanliness is part of the suite of hard-won improvements that accompany the increases in survival being seen worldwide. In settings in which neonatal mortality rates remain high we recommend the kinds of programme that have been associated with reductions in all-cause mortality. These include improvements in institutional quality of care and efforts to improve community-based practices both central to the 2014 Every Newborn Action Plan. (Excerpts) © The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. Open Access.
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