Determinants of mortality, intensive care requirement and prolonged hospitalization in malaria - A tertiary care hospital based cohort study from South-Western India

Malaria Journal

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Saravu, Kavitha ^a   Rishikesh, Kumar ^a   Kamath, Asha ^a  

^a KASTURBA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

Intensive care; Malaria; Malarial outcomes; Non severe malaria; Plasmodium falciparum; Plasmodium vivax; Prolonged hospitalization; Severe malaria

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN MALARIA; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FEVER; HEMOGLOBINURIA; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INDIA; INTENSIVE CARE; KIDNEY FAILURE; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; LUNG EDEMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MALE; METABOLIC ACIDOSIS; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; SHOCK; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TERTIARY CARE CENTER; ADOLESCENT; AGED; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; INFANT; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MIDDLE AGED; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INDIA; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTENSIVE CARE; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TERTIARY HEALTHCARE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84907586958     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2875-13-370     Document Type: Article

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