Global and regional burden of hospital admissions for severe acute lower respiratory infections in young children in 2010: a systematic analysis

The annual number of hospital admissions and in-hospital deaths due to severe acute lower respiratory infections (ALRI) in young children worldwide is unknown. We aimed to estimate the incidence of admissions and deaths for such infections in children younger than 5 years in 2010. We estimated the i...

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Published in:	The Lancet (British edition) Vol. 381; no. 9875; pp. 1380 - 1390
Main Authors:	Nair, Harish, Simões, Eric AF, Rudan, Igor, Gessner, Bradford D, Azziz-Baumgartner, Eduardo, Zhang, Jian Shayne F, Feikin, Daniel R, Mackenzie, Grant A, Moiïsi, Jennifer C, Roca, Anna, Baggett, Henry C, Zaman, Syed MA, Singleton, Rosalyn J, Lucero, Marilla G, Chandran, Aruna, Gentile, Angela, Cohen, Cheryl, Krishnan, Anand, Bhutta, Zulfiqar A, Arguedas, Adriano, Clara, Alexey Wilfrido, Andrade, Ana Lucia, Ope, Maurice, Ruvinsky, Raúl Oscar, Hortal, María, McCracken, John P, Madhi, Shabir A, Bruce, Nigel, Qazi, Shamim A, Morris, Saul S, El Arifeen, Shams, Weber, Martin W, Scott, J Anthony G, Brooks, W Abdullah, Breiman, Robert F, Campbell, Harry
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Kidlington Elsevier Ltd 20.04.2013 Elsevier Elsevier Limited Lancet Publishing Group
Subjects:	Acute Disease Biological and medical sciences boys Child, Preschool Children Children & youth Chinese languages Developing countries Disease control Estimates Fatalities Female General aspects Girls Global Health Health facilities health services Hospital Mortality Hospitalization Hospitalization - statistics & numerical data Hospitals Humans Incidence Infant Infections Influenza A Virus, H1N1 Subtype Influenza, Human - epidemiology Influenza, Human - mortality Internal Medicine Language LDCs Male Medical sciences Miscellaneous Mortality Pneumonia Population Population statistics Population studies Public health. Hygiene Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine Respiratory tract infection Respiratory Tract Infections - epidemiology Respiratory Tract Infections - mortality Rural communities Sensitivity analysis Sex Studies Surveillance Systematic review Working groups World Health Organization South Africa Gambia Europe Africa Human Preschool age Medicine Statistical analysis Respiratory disease Hospital admission Acute Regional Severe Respiratory system infection Child Public health
ISSN:	0140-6736, 1474-547X, 1474-547X
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