Inpatient signs and symptoms and factors associated with death in children aged 5 years and younger admitted to two Ebola management centres in Sierra Leone, 2014: A retrospective cohort study

The Lancet Global Health

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 2016, Pages e495-e501

  Shah, Tejshri ^a,b   Greig, Jane ^a   van der Plas, Linda Margaretha ^c   Achar, Jay ^a   Caleo, Grazia ^a   Squire, James Sylvester ^d   Turay, Alhaji Sayui ^d   Joshy, Grace ^e   D'Este, Catherine ^e   Banks, Emily ^e   Vogt, Florian ^f   Lokuge, Kamalini ^a,e  

^a MÉDECINS SANS FRONTIÈRES   (Switzerland)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE HEALTHCARE NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^c ANTONI VAN LEEUWENHOEK HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^d Ministry of Health and Sanitation of Sierra Leone   (Sierra Leone)

^e The Australian National University   (Australia)

^f MÉDECINS SANS FRONTIÈRES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANOREXIA; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BLOOD CLOTTING TEST; BREATHING DISORDER; CHILD; CONFUSION; CONJUNCTIVAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; COUGHING; DEATH; DIARRHEA; DISTRESS SYNDROME; DYSPHAGIA; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; EBOLAVIRUS; FEMALE; FEVER; HEADACHE; HICCUP; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; JAUNDICE; LETHARGY; LOSS OF APPETITE; MALE; MYALGIA; PHYSICAL DISEASE BY BODY FUNCTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RASH; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STOMACH PAIN; VIRUS LOAD; VOMITING; WEAKNESS; HOSPITALIZATION; INFANT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MORTALITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SIERRA LEONE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VIROLOGY;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIARRHEA; EBOLAVIRUS; FEVER; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INFANT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SIERRA LEONE; VIRAL LOAD; VOMITING;

EID: 84975291655     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2214109X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S2214-109X(16)30097-3     Document Type: Article

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