Community-based validation of assessment of newborn illnesses by trained community health workers in Sylhet district of Bangladesh

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 14, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1448-1456

  Baqui, Abdullah H ^a,b   Arifeen, Shams E ^b   Rosen, Heather E ^a   Mannan, Ishtiaq ^a,b   Rahman, Syed M ^b   Al Mahmud, Arif Billah ^b   Hossain, Daniel ^b   Das, Milan K ^b   Begum, Nazma ^b   Ahmed, Saifuddin ^a   Santosham, Mathuram ^a   Black, Robert E ^a   Darmstadt, Gary L ^a  

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

^b INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR DIARRHOEAL DISEASE RESEARCH   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

Bangladesh; Community health workers; Newborn assessment; Newborn health; Newborn illness; Validation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKER; DISEASE SEVERITY; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH SERVICES; HEALTH STATUS; NEONATE; SYMPTOM; TRAINING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BANGLADESH; COMMUNITY ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; GOLD STANDARD; HEALTH AUXILIARY; HUMAN; KAPPA STATISTICS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEWBORN; NEWBORN DISEASE; PHYSICAL DISEASE BY BODY FUNCTION; PHYSICIAN; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRAINING; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALGORITHMS; BANGLADESH; COMMUNITY HEALTH AIDES; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, NEWBORN, DISEASES; MIDDLE AGED; NEONATAL SCREENING; NURSING ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; YOUNG ADULT;

ASIA; BANGLADESH; EURASIA; SOUTH ASIA; SYLHET;

EID: 70449395799     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: 13653156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3156.2009.02397.x     Document Type: Article

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