A Prospective Comparison of Malaria with Other Severe Diseases in African Children: Prognosis and Optimization of Management

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 37, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 890-897

  Planche, Tim ^a   Agbenyega, Tsiri ^b   Bedu Addo, George ^c   Ansong, Daniel ^c   Owusu Ofori, Alex ^c   Micah, Frank ^c   Anakwa, Cyclopea ^c   Asafo Agyei, Emmanuel ^c   Hutson, Alan ^d   Stacpoole, Peter W ^e   Krishna, Sanjeev ^a  

^a ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b KWAME NKRUMAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Ghana)

^c KOMFO ANOKYE TEACHING HOSPITAL   (Ghana)

^d UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LACTIC ACID;

AFRICA; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CHILD HOSPITALIZATION; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; COMA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HEMATOCRIT; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; LACTATE BLOOD LEVEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; SCORING SYSTEM; TEACHING HOSPITAL;

CHILD; HUMANS; LACTIC ACID; MALARIA; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RESPIRATION; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0142107403     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/377536     Document Type: Article

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