Prognostic accuracy of five simple scales in childhood bacterial meningitis

Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 44, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 557-565

  Pelkonen, Tuula ^a,b,c   Roine, Irmeli ^d   Monteiro, Lurdes ^e   Cruzeiro, Manuel Leite ^a   Pitkäranta, Anne ^c,f   Kataja, Matti ^g   Peltola, Heikki ^b,c  

^a Hospital Pediatrico David Bernardino   (Angola)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI AND HELSINKI UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^d UNIVERSIDAD DIEGO PORTALES   (Chile)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH DR RICARDO JORGE   (Portugal)

^f HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^g NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Child; Developing countries; Meningitis; Outcome; Risk factors

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BAYESIAN LUANDA SCALE; BLANTYRE COMA SCALE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONVULSION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DYSPNEA; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HERSON TODD SCALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROGNOSIS; RATING SCALE; SIMPLE LUANDA SCALE; SURVIVAL RATE;

ANGOLA; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; ODDS RATIO; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTORS; ROC CURVE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84864068274     PISSN: 00365548     EISSN: 16511980     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/00365548.2011.652666     Document Type: Article

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