Hypoxemia in children with pneumonia and its clinical predictors

Indian Journal of Pediatrics

Volumn 73, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 777-781

  Basnet, Sudha ^a   Adhikari, Ramesh Kant ^a   Gurung, Chitra Kumar ^b  

^a Department of Community Medicine and Family Health ^*  (Nepal)

^b TRIBHUVAN UNIVERSITY   (Nepal)

Author keywords

Clinical predictors; Hypoxemia; Pneumonia

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOXEMIA; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PNEUMONIA; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ANOXEMIA; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; NEPAL; PNEUMONIA; PREVALENCE; PROGNOSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 33749494796     PISSN: 00195456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02790384     Document Type: Article

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