The Predictive Performance of a Pneumonia Severity Score in Human Immunodeficiency Virus–negative Children Presenting to Hospital in 7 Low- and Middle-income Countries

Abstract Background In 2015, pneumonia remained the leading cause of mortality in children aged 1–59 months. Methods Data from 1802 human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)–negative children aged 1–59 months enrolled in the Pneumonia Etiology Research for Child Health (PERCH) study with severe or very sev...

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Published in:	Clinical infectious diseases Vol. 70; no. 6; pp. 1050 - 1057
Main Authors:	Gallagher, Katherine E, Knoll, Maria D, Prosperi, Chrissy, Baggett, Henry C, Brooks, W Abdullah, Feikin, Daniel R, Hammitt, Laura L, Howie, Stephen R C, Kotloff, Karen L, Levine, Orin S, Madhi, Shabir A, Murdoch, David R, O’Brien, Katherine L, Thea, Donald M, Awori, Juliet O, Baillie, Vicky L, Ebruke, Bernard E, Goswami, Doli, Kamau, Alice, Maloney, Susan A, Moore, David P, Mwananyanda, Lawrence, Olutunde, Emmanuel O, Seidenberg, Phil, Sissoko, Seydou, Sylla, Mamadou, Thamthitiwat, Somsak, Zaman, Khalequ, Scott, J Anthony G
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	US Oxford University Press 03.03.2020
Subjects:	Child Child, Preschool Developing Countries Female HIV Hospitals Humans Infant Pneumonia - epidemiology Severity of Illness Index severity index pneumonia prognosis/prognostic scores respiratory disease pneumococcal disease
ISSN:	1058-4838, 1537-6591, 1537-6591
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