Care at first-level facilities for children with severe pneumonia in Bangladesh: a cohort study

The Lancet

Volumn 372, Issue 9641, 2008, Pages 822-830

  Chowdhury, Enayet K ^a   El Arifeen, Shams ^a   Rahman, Muntasirur ^a   Hoque, DM Emdadul ^a   Hossain, M Altaf ^b   Begum, Khadija ^a   Siddik, Ashraf ^a   Begum, Nazma ^a   Rahman, Qazi Sadeq ur ^a   Akter, Tasnima ^a   Haque, Twaha M ^a   Al Helal, ZA Motin ^b   Baqui, Abdullah H ^c   Bryce, Jennifer ^c   Black, Robert E ^c  

^a INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR DIARRHOEAL DISEASE RESEARCH   (Bangladesh)

^b Directorate General of Health Services   (Bangladesh)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BANGLADESH; CHILD HEALTH CARE; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PATIENT REFERRAL; PNEUMONIA; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIOECONOMICS;

EID: 50949123416     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(08)61166-6     Document Type: Article

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