Usefulness and applicability of the revised dengue case classification by disease: Multi-centre study in 18 countries

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Barniol, Judit ^a   Gaczkowski, Roger ^a   Barbato, Eliana V ^b   da Cunha, Rivaldo V ^c   Salgado, Doris ^d   Martínez, Eric ^e   Segarra, Carmita S ^f   Pleites Sandoval, Ernesto B ^g   Mishra, Ajay ^h   Laksono, Ida S ⁱ   Lum, Lucy C S ^j   Martínez, José G ^k   Núnez, Andrea ^l   Balsameda, Angel ^l   Allende, Ivan ^m   Ramírez, Gladys ⁿ   Dimaano, Efren ^o   Thomacheck, Kay ^p   Akbar, Naeema A ^q   Ooi, Eng E ^r   Villegas, Elci ^s   Hien, Tran T ^t   Farrar, Jeremy ^u   Horstick, Olaf ^v   Kroeger, Axel ^v,w   Jaenisch, Thomas ^a   more..

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b Hospital Municipal Francés   (Bolivia)

^c Universidad Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul   (Brazil)

^d UNIVERSIDAD SURCOLOMBIANA   (Colombia)

^e INSTITUTO DE MEDICINA TROPICAL PEDRO KOURÍ   (Cuba)

^f Hospital de Infecciología   (Ecuador)

^g Hospital Nacional de Ninos Benjamin Bloom   (El Salvador)

^h Sunderlal Memorial Hospital   (India)

ⁱ GADJAH MADA UNIVERSITY   (Indonesia)

^j UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

^k Servicios de Salud de Nuevo Leon   (Mexico)

^l Ministerio de Salud   (Nicaragua)

^m Estrategia de Gestión Integrada para prevención y control del Dengue en Paraguay   (Paraguay)

ⁿ MINISTERIO DE SALUD   (Peru)

^o San Lazaro Hospital   (Philippines)

^p CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (Puerto Rico)

^q Preventive Affair Department   (Saudi Arabia)

^r DUKE NUS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Singapore)

^s UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES   (Venezuela)

^t UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON HOSPITALS   (United Kingdom)

^u OXFORD UNIVERSITY CLINICAL RESEARCH UNIT   (Viet Nam)

^v WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^w LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CASE MANAGEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DENGUE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL RECORD; QUALITY CONTROL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; PATHOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; QUESTIONNAIRE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DENGUE; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79954595387     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-11-106     Document Type: Article

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