An instrument for the assessment of diarrhoeal severity based on a longitudinal community-based study

BMJ Open

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2014, Pages

  Lee, Gwenyth ^a   Yori, Pablo Peñataro ^a,b   Olortegui, Maribel Paredes ^a,b   Caulfield, Laura E ^a   Sack, David A ^a   Fischer Walker, Christa ^a   Black, Robert E ^a   Kosek, Margaret ^a,b  

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

^b ASOCIACIÓN BENÉFICA PRISMA   (Peru)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANOREXIA; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; DIARRHEA SEVERITY SCORE; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEVER; HEALTH AUXILIARY; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HUMAN; INFANT; LIQUID FECES; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALAISE; MASS SPECTROMETER; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; NEWBORN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RURAL POPULATION; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STOMACH PAIN; WEIGHT CHANGE; WEIGHT GAIN; DEMOGRAPHY; HEALTH; PERU; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; DIARRHEA; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; PERU; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RURAL HEALTH; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 84903177955     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20446055     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2014-004816     Document Type: Article

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