Chris A. Rees, Tim Colbourn, Shubhada Hooli, Carina King et al.
INTRODUCTION: Existing risk assessment tools to identify children at risk of hospitalised pneumonia-related mortality have shown suboptimal discriminatory value during external validation. Our objective was to derive and validate a novel risk assessment tool to identify children aged 2-59 months at ...
Chris A. Rees, Shubhada Hooli, Carina King, Eric D. McCollum et al.
BACKGROUND: Existing scores to identify children at risk of hospitalized pneumonia-related mortality lack broad external validation. Our objective was to externally validate three such risk scores. METHODS: We applied the Respiratory Index of Severity in Children (RISC) for HIV-negative children, th...
Shubhada Hooli, Carina King, Eric D. McCollum, Tim Colbourn et al.
OBJECTIVES: We determined the pulse oximetry benefit in pediatric pneumonia mortality risk stratification and chest-indrawing pneumonia in-hospital mortality risk factors. METHODS: We report the characteristics and in-hospital pneumonia-related mortality of children aged 2-59 months who were include...
Satinder Aneja, Suvasini Sharma
Perinatal asphyxia is a notable cause of mortality in newborn babies and of neurodevelopmental disability in infancy and childhood, especially in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs). Therapeutic hypothermia has profoundly changed the management of hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy. This th...
H Martı́n, Jennifer Falconer, Emmanuel Addo‐Yobo, Satinder Aneja et al.
Background: The existing World Health Organization (WHO) pneumonia case management guidelines rely on clinical symptoms and signs for identifying, classifying, and treating pneumonia in children up to 5 years old. We aimed to collate an individual patient-level data set from large, high-quality pre-...