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Childhood Acute Illness and Nutrition (CHAIN) Network: a protocol for a multi-site prospective cohort study to identify modifiable risk factors for mortality among acutely ill children in Africa and Asia
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Introduction Children admitted to hospitals in resource-poor settings remain at risk of both inpatient and post-discharge mortality. While known risk factors such as young age and nutritional status can identify children at risk, they do not provide clear mechanistic targets for intervention. The Childhood Acute Illness and Nutrition (CHAIN) cohort study aims to characterise the biomedical and social risk factors for mortality in acutely ill children in hospitals and after...
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-028454
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- BMJ Publishing Group Publisher's website
- Journal:
- BMJ Open Journal website
- Volume:
- 9
- Issue:
- 5
- Article number:
- e028454
- Publication date:
- 2019-05-05
- Acceptance date:
- 2019-03-12
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2044-6055
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987629
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- The Childhood Acute Illness and Nutrition (CHAIN) Network
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- 2019
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- © Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2019. Re-use permitted under CC BY. Published by BMJ. This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Unported license, which permits others to copy, redistribute, remix, transform and build upon this work for any purpose, provided the original work is properly cited, a link to the licence is given, and indication of whether changes were made.
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