Prospective validation of pediatric disease severity scores to predict mortality in Ugandan children presenting with malaria and non-malaria febrile illness

INTRODUCTION: The development of simple clinical tools to identify children at risk of death would enable rapid and rational implementation of lifesaving measures to reduce childhood mortality globally. METHODS: We evaluated the ability of three clinical scoring systems to predict in-hospital mortal...

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Autores principales: Conroy, Andrea L, Hawkes, Michael, Hayford, Kyla, Namasopo, Sophie, Opoka, Robert O, John, Chandy C, Liles, W Conrad, Kain, Kevin C
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4339236/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25879892
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13054-015-0773-4

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4339236/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25879892
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13054-015-0773-4

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