Standardization of clinical assessment and sample collection across all PERCH study sites

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 64, Issue , 2017, Pages S228-S237

  Crawley, Jane ^a   Prosperi, Christine ^b   Baggett, Henry C ^c,d   Brooks, W Abdullah ^b,e   Knoll, Maria Deloria ^b   Hammitt, Laura L ^b,f   Howie, Stephen R C ^g,h,i   Kotloff, Karen L ^j   Levine, Orin S ^b,k   Madhi, Shabir A ^l   Murdoch, David R ^m,n   O'Brien, Katherine L ^b   Thea, Donald M ^o   Awori, Juliet O ^f   Bunthi, Charatdao ^c   DeLuca, Andrea N ^b   Driscoll, Amanda J ^b   Ebruke, Bernard E ^g   Goswami, Doli ^e   Hidgon, Melissa M ^b   Karron, Ruth A ^b   Kazungu, Sidi ^f   Kourouma, Nana ^p   Mackenzie, Grant ^g,q   Moore, David P ^l,r   Mudau, Azwifari ^l   Mwale, Magdalene ^s   Nahar, Kamrun ^e   Park, Daniel E ^b,t   Piralam, Barameht ^u   Seidenberg, Phil ^o,v   Sylla, Mamadou ^p   Feikin, Daniel R ^b,w   Scott, J Anthony G ^f,g   Fancourt, Nicholas ^b   Fu, Wei ^b   Higdon, Melissa M ^b   Kagucia, E Wangeci ^b   Li, Mengying ^b   Wu, Zhenke ^b   Zeger, Scott L ^b   Watson, Nora L ^x   Endtz, Hubert P ^e   Zaman, Khalequ ^e   Hossain, Lokman ^e   Jahan, Yasmin ^e   Ashraf, Hasan ^e   Antonio, Martin ^g   McLellan, Jessica ^g   Machuka, Eunice ^g   Shamsul, Arifin ^g   Zaman, Syed M A ^g   Morpeth, Susan C ^f   Kamau, Alice ^f   Tapia, Milagritos D ^j,p   Sow, Samba O ^j,p   Tamboura, Boubou ^j,p   Onwuchekwa, Uma ^j,p   Toure, Aliou ^j,p   Adrian, Peter V ^l   Baillie, Vicky L ^l   Kuwanda, Locadiah ^l   Mudau, Azwifarwi ^l   Groome, Michelle J ^l   Thamthitiwat, Somsak ^c   Maloney, Susan A ^c   Rhodes, Julia ^c   Sawatwong, Pongpun ^c   Akarasewi, Pasakorn ^c   Mwananyanda, Lawrence ^o,s   Chipeta, James ^o,s   Mwansa, James ^o,s   Somwe, Somwe Wa ^o,s   Kwenda, Geoffrey ^o,s   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

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

^c Centers for Disease Control CDC Thailand Field Station   (Thailand)

^d CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^e INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR DIARRHOEAL DISEASE RESEARCH   (Bangladesh)

^f KENYA MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

^g LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^h UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^j UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^k BILL AND MELINDA GATES FOUNDATION   (United States)

^l UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^m UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

ⁿ CANTERBURY HEALTH LABORATORIES   (New Zealand)

^o BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^p Centre Pour le Développement des Vaccins CVD Mali   (Mali)

^q MURDOCH CHILDREN'S RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^r UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^s UNIVERSITY TEACHING HOSPITAL   (Zambia)

^t GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^u Nakhon Phanom Provincial Health Office   (Thailand)

^v UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^w NATIONAL CENTER FOR IMMUNIZATION AND RESPIRATORY DISEASES   (United States)

^x EMMES CORPORATION   (United States)

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Author keywords

Childhood; Hospital; Pneumonia; Standardization; Training

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHECKLIST; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; MEDICAL STAFF; MULTIPLE CHOICE TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; PROTOCOL COMPLIANCE; RECOGNITION; REFRESHER COURSE; SAMPLING; SKILL; STAFF TRAINING; STANDARDIZATION; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; BANGLADESH; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; GAMBIA; HOSPITAL; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; KENYA; LABORATORY TECHNIQUE; MALE; MALI; MULTICENTER STUDY; MULTICENTER STUDY (TOPIC); PNEUMONIA; SOUTH AFRICA; SPECIMEN HANDLING; STANDARDS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THAILAND; VIRUS PNEUMONIA; ZAMBIA;

BANGLADESH; CHILD; CLINICAL LABORATORY TECHNIQUES; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EPIDEMIOLOGIC RESEARCH DESIGN; FEMALE; GAMBIA; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; INTERNATIONALITY; KENYA; MALE; MALI; MULTICENTER STUDIES AS TOPIC; PNEUMONIA; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; PNEUMONIA, VIRAL; SOUTH AFRICA; SPECIMEN HANDLING; THAILAND; ZAMBIA;

EID: 85038089951     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/cix077     Document Type: Article

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