Pneumonia case-finding in the RESPIRE Guatemala indoor air pollution trial: Standardizing methods for resource-poor settings

Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Volumn 85, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 535-544

  Bruce, Nigel ^a   Weber, Martin ^b   Arana, Byron ^c   Diaz, Anaite ^c   Jenny, Alisa ^d   Thompson, Lisa ^d   McCracken, John ^e   Dherani, Mukesh ^a   Juarez, Damaris ^c   Ordonez, Sergio ^c   Klein, Robert ^f   Smith, Kirk R ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DEL VALLE DE GUATEMALA   (Guatemala)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^f CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN; OXYGEN;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; BLINDNESS; ENVIRONMENTAL FATE; INDOOR AIR; PNEUMONIA; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; RESOURCE SCARCITY; RESPIRATORY DISEASE; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STANDARDIZATION; VIRUS; X-RAY;

AIR POLLUTION; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BREATHING RATE; CASE FINDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; FEMALE; FIELD WORK; GUATEMALA; HEALTH CENTER; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; OXYGEN SATURATION; PATIENT REFERRAL; PHYSICIAN; PNEUMONIA; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; PULSE OXIMETRY; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL PNEUMOVIRUS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION, INDOOR; ANTIGENS, VIRAL; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; FIRES; GUATEMALA; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; OXIMETRY; PNEUMONIA; POVERTY; PREGNANCY; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; RESEARCH DESIGN; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL VIRUS, HUMAN; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; RISK FACTORS;

CENTRAL AMERICA; GUATEMALA [CENTRAL AMERICA];

RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL VIRUS; RICE STRIPE VIRUS;

EID: 34447267415     PISSN: 00429686     EISSN: 15640604     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2471/BLT.06.035832     Document Type: Article

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