Morbidity and mortality of severe malnutrition among Sudanese children in New Halfa Hospital, Eastern Sudan

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 106, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 66-68

  Mahgoub, Hyder M ^a   Adam, Ishag ^b  

^a New Halfa Teaching Hospital Sudan   (Sudan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KHARTOUM   (Sudan)

Author keywords

Children; Malnutrition; Oedema; Severe; Sudan

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD DEATH; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDEMA; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MORBIDITY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; SEPTICEMIA; SUDAN;

CHILD HEALTH SERVICES; DIARRHEA; EDEMA; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MEDICAL RECORDS; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; RISK FACTORS; SEPSIS; SUDAN;

EID: 83155175141     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: 18783503     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trstmh.2011.09.003     Document Type: Article

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