External validation of the DHAKA score and comparison with the current IMCI algorithm for the assessment of dehydration in children with diarrhoea: a prospective cohort study

• Những tác giả chính: Adam C Levine, MD (Tác giả), Justin Glavis-Bloom, MD (Tác giả), Payal Modi, MD (Tác giả), Sabiha Nasrin, MBBS (Tác giả), Bita Atika, MBBS (Tác giả), Soham Rege, BS (Tác giả), Sarah Robertson, MS (Tác giả), Christopher H Schmid, PhD (Tác giả), Nur H Alam, MD (Tác giả)
• Định dạng: Sách
• Được phát hành: Elsevier, 2016-10-01T00:00:00Z.
• Những chủ đề: article
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Background: Dehydration due to diarrhoea is a leading cause of child death worldwide, yet no clinical tools for assessing dehydration have been validated in resource-limited settings. The Dehydration: Assessing Kids Accurately (DHAKA) score was derived for assessing dehydration in children with diar...