Pallor as a sign of anaemia in small Tanzanian children at different health care levels

Acta Tropica

Volumn 99, Issue 2-3, 2006, Pages 113-118

  Mogensen, Christian B ^a,b   Sørensen, Jeff E ^b   Bjorkman, Anders ^c  

^a ODENSE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b Lugala Lutheran Hospital   (Tanzania)

^c KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Anaemia; OPD; Pallor

Indexed keywords

ANEMIA; CHILD HEALTH; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH MONITORING; HEALTH SURVEY; MALARIA; RURAL AREA;

ANEMIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONJUNCTIVA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH SURVEY; HEMATOCRIT; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTPATIENT; PALLOR; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; PUBLIC HEALTH; TANZANIA; WARD;

ANEMIA; ANIMALS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEMATOCRIT; HUMANS; INFANT; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALE; PALLOR; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RURAL POPULATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TANZANIA;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; TANZANIA;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 33750502015     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2005.12.010     Document Type: Article

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