Are primary health workers skilled enough to assess the severity of illness among young infants?

Indian Pediatrics

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 713-718

  Bandyopadhyay, Sutapa ^b   Kumar, Rajesh ^a   Singhi, Sunit ^b   Aggarwal, Arun K ^b  

^a POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Evaluation; Illness; Infants; Primary care workers; Skills

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD HEALTH CARE; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANT DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHYSICIAN; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; SKILL; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ADULT; ALLIED HEALTH PERSONNEL; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MIDDLE AGED; NEONATOLOGY;

EID: 0041379731     PISSN: 00196061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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