The effect of case management on childhood pneumonia mortality in developing countries

International Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 39, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2010, Pages

  Theodoratou, Evropi ^a   Al Jilaihawi, Sarah ^a   Woodward, Felicity ^a   Ferguson, Joy ^a   Jhass, Arnoupe ^a   Balliet, Manuela ^a   Kolcic, Ivana ^b   Sadruddin, Salim ^c   Duke, Trevor ^d   Rudan, Igor ^a,e   Campbell, Harry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^c SAVE THE CHILDREN   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SPLIT   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Case management; Childhood pneumonia; Community; Developing countries; Hospital

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; RETINOL; ZINC; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; OXYGEN;

AGE CLASS; ANTIBIOTICS; CHILD HEALTH; CHILD MORTALITY; DATA SET; DEVELOPING WORLD; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH CARE; HOSPITAL SECTOR; LITERATURE REVIEW; META-ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PNEUMONIA; VITAMIN; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; ZINC;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OXYGEN THERAPY; PNEUMONIA; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION; FEMALE; MALE; META ANALYSIS; MORTALITY; NEWBORN; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REVIEW; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CHILD MORTALITY; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; OXYGEN; PNEUMONIA; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VITAMIN A; ZINC;

EID: 77951647598     PISSN: 03005771     EISSN: 14643685     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyq032     Document Type: Article

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