Hypoxaemia among children in rural hospitals in Papua New Guinea: Epidemiology and resource availability - A study to support a national oxygen programme

Annals of Tropical Paediatrics

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 277-284

  Wandi, Francis ^c   Peel, David ^a   Duke, Trevor ^b  

^a Ashdown Consultants   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c Kundiawa Hospital   (Papua New Guinea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

CHILD HEALTH; DISEASE INCIDENCE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; HYPOXIA; NEONATE;

ALTITUDE; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BRONCHIOLITIS; CHILD HEALTH CARE; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; ENCEPHALITIS; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FATALITY; FEBRILE CONVULSION; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH CARE AVAILABILITY; HEALTH CARE NEED; HEALTH PROGRAM; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPOXEMIA; INCIDENCE; INFANT; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MATERIALS HANDLING; MENINGITIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OXYGEN TENSION; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; PNEUMONIA; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; PULSE OXIMETRY; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; RURAL AREA; SEASHORE; STAFF TRAINING; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HOSPITAL; HOSPITALIZATION; INSTRUMENTATION; MORTALITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEWBORN; OXIMETRY; OXYGEN THERAPY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS;

MELANESIA; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; PAPUA NEW GUINEA;

ANOXEMIA; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HOSPITALS, RURAL; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; OXIMETRY; OXYGEN INHALATION THERAPY; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 34447308201     PISSN: 02724936     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/146532806X152791     Document Type: Article

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