Pneumonia case-finding in the RESPIRE Guatemala indoor air pollution trial: standardizing methods for resource-poor settings

• Main Authors: Nigel Bruce (Author), Martin Weber (Author), Byron Arana (Author), Anaite Diaz (Author), Alisa Jenny (Author), Lisa Thompson (Author), John McCracken (Author), Mukesh Dherani (Author), Damaris Juarez (Author), Sergio Ordonez (Author), Robert Klein (Author), Kirk R Smith (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: The World Health Organization, 2007-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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OBJECTIVE: Trials of environmental risk factors and acute lower respiratory infections (ALRI) face a double challenge: implementing sufficiently sensitive and specific outcome assessments, and blinding. We evaluate methods used in the first randomized exposure study of pollution indoors and respirat...