Mortality and its risk factors in Malawian children admitted to hospital with clinical pneumonia, 2001-12: A retrospective observational study

The Lancet Global Health

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2016, Pages e57-e68

  Lazzerini, Marzia ^b   Seward, Nadine ^a   Lufesi, Norman ^c   Banda, Rosina ^d   Sinyeka, Sophie ^d   Masache, Gibson ^d   Nambiar, Bejoy ^a   Makwenda, Charles ^d   Costello, Anthony ^a   McCollum, Eric D ^a,e   Colbourn, Tim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE FOR MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH IRCCS BURLO GAROFOLO   (Italy)

^c Acute Respiratory Infection Control Programme   (Malawi)

^d Parent and Child Health Initiative ^*  (Malawi)

^e JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BREATHING RATE; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FATALITY; FEMALE; FEVER; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFANT; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MYCOSIS; NEWBORN; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PNEUMOCYSTIS JIROVECI; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITY CONTROL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX DIFFERENCE; CLASSIFICATION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HOSPITALIZATION; INCIDENCE; MALAWI; MORTALITY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROCEDURES; RISK FACTOR; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TRENDS;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALAWI; MALE; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PNEUMONIA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 84951732331     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2214109X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S2214-109X(15)00215-6     Document Type: Article

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