Burden of disease in adults admitted to hospital in a rural region of coastal Kenya: An analysis of data from linked clinical and demographic surveillance systems

The Lancet Global Health

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Etyang, Anthony O ^a,b   Munge, Kenneth ^a,b   Bunyasi, Erick W ^a,b   Matata, Lena ^a,b   Ndila, Carolyne ^a   Kapesa, Sailoki ^a,b   Owiti, Maureen ^b   Khandwalla, Iqbal ^b   Brent, Andrew J ^a,b,d,g   Tsofa, Benjamin ^a,b   Kabibu, Pamela ^b   Morpeth, Susan ^a,b,d   Bauni, Evasius ^a,e   Otiende, Mark ^a   Ojal, John ^a   Ayieko, Philip ^a   Knoll, Maria D ^f   Smeeth, Liam ^c   Williams, Thomas N ^a,b,e,g   Griffiths, Ulla K ^c   Scott, J Anthony G ^a,b,c,d,e   more..

^a KEMRI WELLCOME TRUST RESEARCH PROGRAMME   (Kenya)

^b Kilifi District Hospital   (Kenya)

^c LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^e Studies of the Epidemiology of Epilepsy in Demographic Surveillance Systems   (Ghana)

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

^g IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTERIAL GAS; ARTICLE; BLOOD CULTURE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID CULTURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM FUNCTION DISORDER; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; FEMALE; GASTROENTERITIS; HEALTH SURVEY; HEART FAILURE; HIV TEST; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; ICD-10; INFECTION; INJURY; KENYA; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENINGITIS; NEOPLASM; NON COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; PARASITOSIS; PNEUMONIA; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; RADIOGRAPHY; RURAL AREA; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CAUSE OF DEATH; COST OF ILLNESS; DISABLED PERSON; HOSPITAL; HOSPITALIZATION; MIDDLE AGED; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; RURAL POPULATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; WOUNDS AND INJURIES; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CAUSE OF DEATH; COST OF ILLNESS; DISABLED PERSONS; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; INFECTION; KENYA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; QUALITY-ADJUSTED LIFE YEARS; RURAL POPULATION; SEX FACTORS; WOUNDS AND INJURIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84896923234     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2214109X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S2214-109X(14)70023-3     Document Type: Article

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