Predicting Hospitalised Paediatric Pneumonia Mortality Risk: An External Validation of RISC and mRISC, and Local Tool Development (RISC-Malawi) from Malawi

BACKGROUND: Pneumonia is the leading infectious cause of under-5 mortality in sub-Saharan Africa. Clinical prediction tools may aide case classification, triage, and allocation of hospital resources. We performed an external validation of two published prediction tools and compared this to a locally...

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Autores principales: Hooli, Shubhada, Colbourn, Tim, Lufesi, Norman, Costello, Anthony, Nambiar, Bejoy, Thammasitboon, Satid, Makwenda, Charles, Mwansambo, Charles, McCollum, Eric D., King, Carina
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2016
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5193399/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28030608
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0168126

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