Predictors of long term neurological outcome in bacterial meningitis

Indian Journal of Pediatrics

Volumn 74, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 369-374

  Singhi, Pratibha ^a   Bansal, Arun ^a   Geeta, P ^a   Singhi, Sunit ^a  

^a POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Acute bacterial meningitis; Children; Developmental delay; Neurological sequelae; Outcome

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BRAIN INFARCTION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID CULTURE; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CLINICAL STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RISK; SEIZURE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVOR; TENDON REFLEX; ACUTE DISEASE; CHILD; CLASSIFICATION; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PROGNOSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR;

ACUTE DISEASE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; MENINGITIS, PNEUMOCOCCAL; MENTAL RETARDATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; PROGNOSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 34248177731     PISSN: 00195456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12098-007-0062-6     Document Type: Article

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