Potentially modifiable factors associated with death of infants and children with severe pneumonia routinely managed in district hospitals in Malawi

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2015, Pages

  Enarson, Penelope M ^a,b   Gie, Robert P ^b,c   Mwansambo, Charles C ^d   Chalira, Alfred E ^d   Lufesi, Norman N ^d   Maganga, Ellubey R ^e   Enarson, Donald A ^a,b   Cameron, Neil A ^c   Graham, Stephen M ^a,f  

^a INTERNATIONAL UNION AGAINST TUBERCULOSIS AND LUNG DISEASE   (France)

^b STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF STELLENBOSCH   (South Africa)

^d MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Malawi)

^e UNICEF   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFUSION FLUID; OXYGEN;

ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CHILD; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; DISEASE SEVERITY; HUMAN; INFANT; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALAWI; MALNUTRITION; MEDICAL RECORD; MENINGITIS; NEWBORN; PEDIATRIC WARD; PNEUMONIA; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; SURVIVAL; CASE MANAGEMENT; COMPLICATION; FEMALE; HOSPITAL; HOSPITALIZATION; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

ANEMIA; CASE MANAGEMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HOSPITALS; HOSPITALS, DISTRICT; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALAWI; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MENINGITIS; PNEUMONIA; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 84941991975     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0133365     Document Type: Article

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