Evidence behind the WHO guidelines: Hospital care for children. What are the clinical indicators of PCP?

Journal of Tropical Pediatrics

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 4-7

  Wijesingha, Savini ^a   Graham, Stephen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b MALAWI LIVERPOOL WELLCOME TRUST CLINICAL RESEARCH PROGRAMME   (Malawi)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; OXYGEN;

ABNORMAL RESPIRATORY SOUND; BREATHING RATE; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; CHILD; CHILD DEATH; CHILD HEALTH CARE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COUGHING; CYANOSIS; DYSPNEA; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FEVER; HOSPITAL CARE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HYPOXIA; LABORATORY TEST; LUNG AUSCULTATION; LUNG INFILTRATE; LUNG LAVAGE; NONHUMAN; ONSET AGE; OXYGEN THERAPY; PNEUMOCYSTIS CARINII; PNEUMOCYSTIS JIROVECI; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPUTUM ANALYSIS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

CHILD; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; PEDIATRICS; PNEUMONIA, PNEUMOCYSTIS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 33846686567     PISSN: 01426338     EISSN: 14653664     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/tropej/fml059     Document Type: Review

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