Predictors of death in under-five children with diarrhoea admitted to a critical care ward in an urban hospital in Bangladesh

Acta Paediatrica, International Journal of Paediatrics

Volumn 100, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Chisti, Mohammod J ^a,b   Pietroni, Mark A C ^b   Smith, Jonathan H ^b,c   Bardhan, Pradip K ^b   Salam, Mohammed A ^a  

^a ICDDRB Clinical Sciences Division   (Bangladesh)

^b INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR DIARRHOEAL DISEASE RESEARCH   (Bangladesh)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Absent pulse; Death; Diarrhoea; Hypoxaemia; Severe malnutrition; Special care ward

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BANGLADESH; BLOOD CULTURE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYANOSIS; DEHYDRATION; DIARRHEA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; HYPERKALEMIA; HYPERNATREMIA; HYPOGLYCEMIA; HYPOKALEMIA; HYPONATREMIA; HYPOTHERMIA; HYPOXEMIA; INFANT; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LOBAR PNEUMONIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALNUTRITION; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PULSE RATE; REHYDRATION; SEPSIS; SOCIAL STATUS; SURVIVAL; VOMITING;

ANOXIA; BANGLADESH; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMORBIDITY; DIARRHEA; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, URBAN; HUMANS; HYPERNATREMIA; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MALNUTRITION; PNEUMONIA; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEPSIS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 80855148213     PISSN: 08035253     EISSN: 16512227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1651-2227.2011.02368.x     Document Type: Article

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