Predicting mortality for paediatric inpatients where malaria is uncommon

Archives of Disease in Childhood

Volumn 97, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 889-894

  Clifton, Dana C ^a   Ramadhani, Habib O ^b   Msuya, Levina J ^b,c   Njau, Boniface N ^b   Kinabo, Grace D ^b,c   Buchanan, Ann M ^a,b,d   Crump, John A ^a,b,c,d  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b KILIMANJARO CHRISTIAN MEDICAL CENTRE   (Tanzania)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d KILIMANJARO CHRISTIAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BREAST FEEDING; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEEDING DISORDER; FEMALE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INFANT; LETHARGY; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALE; MORTALITY; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; TANZANIA; THRUSH; WASTING SYNDROME;

ADOLESCENT; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; CHILD, HOSPITALIZED; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INFANT; INPATIENTS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TANZANIA; TERTIARY CARE CENTERS;

EID: 84866515574     PISSN: 00039888     EISSN: 14682044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/archdischild-2012-301812     Document Type: Article

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