Nutritional and clinical status of children admitted to the malnutrition ward, Maputo Central Hospital: A comparison of data from 2001 and 1983

Journal of Tropical Pediatrics

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 102-105

  Cartmell, E ^a   Natalal, H ^a   Francois I ^a   Ferreira, M H ^a   Grahnquist, L ^a  

^a MAPUTO CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Mozambique)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BRONCHOPNEUMONIA; CHILD NUTRITION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECONOMIC ASPECT; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFANT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; KWASHIORKOR; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MARASMUS; MEASLES; MOZAMBIQUE; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PATIENT REFERRAL; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SUPERINFECTION; TUBERCULOSIS; UNDERWEIGHT;

BODY WEIGHT; CHILD NUTRITION DISORDERS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; GROWTH DISORDERS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT NUTRITION DISORDERS; MALE; MORBIDITY; MOZAMBIQUE; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; WASTING SYNDROME;

EID: 20444420830     PISSN: 01426338     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/tropej/fmh088     Document Type: Article

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