Evaluation of latent class analysis and decision thresholds to guide the diagnosis of pediatric tuberculosis in a rwandan reference hospital

Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Tuyisenge, Lisine ^a   Ndimubanzi, C Patrick ^b   Ndayisaba, Gilles ^b   Muganga, Narcisse ^a,c   Menten, Joris ^d   Boelaert, Marleen ^d   Van Den Ende, Jef ^d  

^a Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Kigali   (Rwanda)

^b Coopération Au Développement ^*  (Luxembourg)

^c UNIVERSITY OF RWANDA   (Rwanda)

^d INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Diagnostic accuracy; Guideline; Latent class analysis; Pediatrics; Sub Saharan Africa; Threshold; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; COUGHING; DECISION MAKING; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ENDEMIC DISEASE; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS PREVALENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PEDIATRIC WARD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RWANDA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYMPTOM; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

EID: 75949117198     PISSN: 08913668     EISSN: 15320987     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/INF.0b013e3181c61ddb     Document Type: Article

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