The definition of pneumonia, the assessment of severity, and clinical standardization in the pneumonia etiology research for child health study

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 54, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2012, Pages

  Scott, J Anthony G ^a,b   Wonodi, Chizoba ^c   Moïsi, Jennifer C ^a,b,c   Deloria Knoll, Maria ^c   Deluca, Andrea N ^c   Karron, Ruth A ^d   Bhat, Niranjan ^c   Murdoch, David R ^e,f   Crawley, Jane ^b   Levine, Orin S ^c   O'Brien, Katherine L ^c   Feikin, Daniel R ^c,g  

^a KEMRI WELLCOME TRUST RESEARCH PROGRAMME   (Kenya)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c International Vaccine Access Center   (United States)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^f CANTERBURY HEALTH LABORATORIES   (New Zealand)

^g NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BRONCHODILATING AGENT; PNEUMOCOCCUS VACCINE;

ANEMIA; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; AUSCULTATION; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; BREAST FEEDING; BREATHING DISORDER; BREATHING RATE; BRONCHIOLITIS; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONVULSION; COUGHING; CYANOSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRINKING; FEBRILE CONVULSION; FEVER; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE TYPE B; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HOSPITAL ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; KIDNEY FAILURE; LETHARGY; LUNG ASPIRATION; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; OBSTRUCTIVE AIRWAY DISEASE; OXYGEN SATURATION; OXYGEN THERAPY; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM; PULSE OXIMETER; SEPSIS; SEPTIC SHOCK; STANDARDIZATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STOMACH LAVAGE; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TACHYCARDIA; TACHYPNEA; THORACOCENTESIS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; VIRAL RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; VOMITING; WHEEZING;

ALGORITHMS; CHILD WELFARE; CHILD, HOSPITALIZED; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COUGH; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DYSPNEA; EPIDEMIOLOGIC RESEARCH DESIGN; HUMANS; INFANT; PATIENT SELECTION; PNEUMONIA; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 84858138518     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/cir1065     Document Type: Article

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