Evaluation of simple laboratory investigations to predict fatal outcome in infants with severe malnutrition presenting in an urban diarrhoea treatment centre in Bangladesh

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 15, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1322-1325

  Chisti, Mohammod J ^a   Ahmed, Tahmeed ^a   Bardhan, Prodip K ^a   Salam, Mohammed A ^a  

^a ICDDRB Clinical Sciences Division   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

Death; Diarrhoea; Hypoglycaemia; Severe malnutrition; Survivor

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; ELECTROLYTE; GLUCOSE;

DIABETES; DIARRHEAL DISEASE; DISEASE TREATMENT; HOSPITAL SECTOR; LABORATORY METHOD; MALNUTRITION; MORTALITY; PROTEIN; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SERUM; SURVIVAL;

ARTICLE; BANGLADESH; BLOOD CELL COUNT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; ELECTROLYTE BLOOD LEVEL; FATALITY; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPOCALCEMIA; HYPOGLYCEMIA; HYPOKALEMIA; HYPOMAGNESEMIA; HYPONATREMIA; INFANT; LABORATORY TEST; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALNUTRITION; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; URBAN AREA;

BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BLOOD CELL COUNT; BLOOD GLUCOSE; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; DIARRHEA, INFANTILE; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPOGLYCEMIA; INFANT; MALE; MALNUTRITION; POINT-OF-CARE SYSTEMS; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

BANGLADESH;

EID: 79251523875     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: 13653156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3156.2010.02619.x     Document Type: Article

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