Indicators of acute bacterial meningitis in children at a rural Kenyan district hospital

Pediatrics

Volumn 114, Issue 6, 2004, Pages

  Berkley, James A ^a,b   Versteeg, Anne C ^a   Mwangi, Isaiah ^a   Lowe, Brett S ^a   Newton, Charles R J C ^a  

^a KENYA MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

^b ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

IMCI; Kenya; Meningitis; Rural; Sub Saharan

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; CYANOSIS; FEBRILE CONVULSION; FEEDING; FOCAL EPILEPSY; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INFANT; KENYA; LETHARGY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PEDIATRICS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RURAL AREA; SCREENING; SEIZURE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; ACUTE DISEASE; CHILD; HOSPITAL; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; NECK; PUNCTURE; ROC CURVE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ACUTE DISEASE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDERS; CYANOSIS; HOSPITALS, DISTRICT; HOSPITALS, RURAL; HUMANS; INFANT; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; KENYA; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; NECK; ROC CURVE; SEIZURES; SPINAL PUNCTURE;

EID: 16644385676     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 00314005     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2004-0007     Document Type: Article

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