Causes and outcome of young infant admissions to a Kenyan district hospital

Archives of Disease in Childhood

Volumn 88, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 438-443

  English, M ^a   Ngama, M ^a   Musumba, C ^a   Wamola, B ^a   Bwika, J ^a   Mohammed, S ^a   Ahmed, M ^a   Mwarumba, S ^a   Ouma, B ^a   McHugh, K ^b   Newton, C ^a  

^a KEMRI WELLCOME TRUST RESEARCH PROGRAMME   (Kenya)

^b GREAT ORMOND STREET HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; CHILD CARE; CHILD HOSPITALIZATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROBACTER INFECTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; HYPOGLYCEMIA; HYPOXEMIA; INFANT; INFANT DISEASE; INFANT MORTALITY; JAUNDICE; KENYA; KLEBSIELLA; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PEDIATRIC HOSPITAL; PERINATAL ASPHYXIA; PREMATURITY; PREVENTIVE MEDICINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; STANDARDIZATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; TETANUS;

ANOXEMIA; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HOSPITALS, DISTRICT; HUMANS; HYPOGLYCEMIA; INFANT; INFANT CARE; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT NUTRITION PHYSIOLOGY; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; JAUNDICE, NEONATAL; KENYA; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0038333430     PISSN: 00039888     EISSN: 14682044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/adc.88.5.438     Document Type: Article

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