Can clinical signs predict hypoxaemia in Papua New Guinean children with moderate and severe pneumonia?

Annals of Tropical Paediatrics

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 23-27

  Laman, Moses ^a   Ripa, Paulus ^a   Vince, John ^a   Tefuarani, Nakapi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAPUA NEW GUINEA   (Papua New Guinea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

CHILD HEALTH; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; PNEUMONIA; RESPIRATORY DISEASE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION FUNCTION; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; CYANOSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; DROWSINESS; FEMALE; HEAD MOVEMENT; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; HYPOXEMIA; INFANT; INFECTIOUS PNEUMONIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; OXYGEN THERAPY; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; PREDICTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PULSE OXIMETRY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANOXEMIA; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; OXIMETRY; OXYGEN; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; PNEUMONIA; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

MELANESIA; OCEANIC REGIONS; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; WORLD;

EID: 14944357606     PISSN: 02724936     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/146532805X23317     Document Type: Article

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