Clinical case review: A method to improve identification of true clinical and radiographic pneumonia in children meeting the World Health Organization definition for pneumonia

Background The World Health Organization's (WHO) case definition for childhood pneumonia, composed of simple clinical signs of cough, difficult breathing and fast breathing, is widely used in resource poor settings to guide management of acute respiratory infections. The definition is also comm...

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Published in:	BMC infectious diseases Vol. 8; no. 1; p. 95
Main Authors:	Puumalainen, Taneli, Quiambao, Beatriz, Abucejo-Ladesma, Erma, Lupisan, Socorro, Heiskanen-Kosma, Tarja, Ruutu, Petri, Lucero, Marilla G, Nohynek, Hanna, Simoes, Eric AF, Riley, Ian
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	London BioMed Central 21.07.2008 BioMed Central Ltd BMC
Subjects:	Bacterial vaccines Diagnosis Female Health aspects Hospitalization Humans Infant Infectious Diseases Internal Medicine Male Medical Microbiology Medicine Medicine & Public Health Parasitology Philippines Pneumococcal Vaccines Pneumonia - diagnosis Pneumonia - diagnostic imaging Pneumonia - prevention & control Pneumonia in children Pneumonia, Bacterial - diagnosis Prevention Radiography Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic Research Article Retrospective Studies Risk factors Severity of Illness Index Streptococcus pneumoniae Tropical Medicine World Health Organization United States Disease Episode Pneumonia Severe Pneumonia Acute Lower Respiratory Infection Lower Respiratory Infection
ISSN:	1471-2334, 1471-2334
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