Treatment outcomes of Pumani bubble-CPAP versus oxygen therapy among preterm babies presenting with respiratory distress at a tertiary hospital in Tanzania—Randomised trial

• Annette Baine Mwatha ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Annette Baine Mwatha, Rune Philemon

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: jclabab@gmail.com

  Affiliations Kilimanjaro Christian Medical University College, Moshi, Tanzania, Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Center (KCMC), Moshi, Tanzania, Gertrude`s Children`s Hospital, Nairobi, Kenya

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0433-7730

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• Michael Mahande ,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Institute of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, Kilimanjaro Christian Medical University College (KCMUCo), Moshi, Tanzania

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• Raimos Olomi ,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Kilimanjaro Christian Medical University College, Moshi, Tanzania, Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Center (KCMC), Moshi, Tanzania

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• Beatrice John ,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Institute of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, Kilimanjaro Christian Medical University College (KCMUCo), Moshi, Tanzania

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• Rune Philemon

  Contributed equally to this work with: Annette Baine Mwatha, Rune Philemon

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Kilimanjaro Christian Medical University College, Moshi, Tanzania, Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Center (KCMC), Moshi, Tanzania

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