Predictors of treatment failure in hospitalized children [3-59 months] with severe and very severe pneumonia

Indian Pediatrics

Volumn 50, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 787-789

  Jain, Dipty L ^a   Sarathi, Vijaya ^a   Jawalekar, Sarvesh ^a  

^a GOVERNMENT MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

Children; Pneumonia; Predictors; Treatment failure

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CEFOTAXIME;

ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHILD; CHILD HOSPITALIZATION; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOGLYCEMIA; HYPOXEMIA; INFANCY; INFANT; LEUKOPENIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MEASLES VACCINATION; PREDICTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RISK FACTOR; TACHYPNEA; TREATMENT FAILURE; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; HOSPITALIZATION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PNEUMONIA;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INFANT; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PNEUMONIA; RISK FACTORS; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 84884692482     PISSN: 00196061     EISSN: 09747559     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13312-013-0220-z     Document Type: Article

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