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Appropriateness of clinical severity classification of new WHO childhood pneumonia guidance: a multi-hospital, retrospective, cohort study
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Background Management of pneumonia in many low-income and middle-income countries is based on WHO guidelines that classify children according to clinical signs that define thresholds of risk. We aimed to establish whether some children categorised as eligible for outpatient treatment might have a risk of death warranting their treatment in hospital. Methods We did a retrospective cohort study of children aged 2–59 months admitted to one of 14 hospitals in Kenya with pneumonia between March 1,...
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- Elsevier Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Lancet Global Health Journal website
- Volume:
- 6
- Issue:
- 1
- Pages:
- e74-e83
- Publication date:
- 2017-12-12
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2214-109X
- Source identifiers:
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812332
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- pubs:812332
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- 2018-01-10
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- Copyright holder:
- Agweyu et al
- Copyright date:
- 2017
- Notes:
- Copyright © 2017 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an Open Access article under the CC BY 4.0 license.
- Licence:
- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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