Prediction of illness severity and outcome of children symptomatic following kerosene ingestion

Annals of Tropical Paediatrics

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 309-314

  Simmank, Karin ^a   Wagstaff, Lucy ^a   Sullivan, Keith ^b   Filteau, Suzanne ^b   Tomkins, Andrew ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KEROSENE;

CHILD HEALTH; DEVELOPING WORLD; MORBIDITY; NUTRITIONAL STATUS;

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPLICATION; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DIARRHEA; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FEVER; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INGESTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PNEUMONIA; PREDICTION; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0031732629     PISSN: 02724936     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02724936.1998.11747965     Document Type: Article

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