Mortality and its risk factors in Malawian children admitted to hospital with clinical pneumonia, 2001-12: a retrospective observational study

• المؤلفون الرئيسيون: Dr. Marzia Lazzerini, PhD (مؤلف), Nadine Seward, PhD (مؤلف), Norman Lufesi, MPhil (مؤلف), Rosina Banda, BScNE (مؤلف), Sophie Sinyeka, MSc (مؤلف), Gibson Masache, MSc (مؤلف), Bejoy Nambiar, MPH (مؤلف), Charles Makwenda, MSc (مؤلف), Prof. Anthony Costello, FMedSci (مؤلف), Eric D McCollum, MD (مؤلف), Dr. Tim Colbourn, PhD (مؤلف)
• التنسيق: كتاب
• منشور في: Elsevier, 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z.
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Background: Few studies have reported long-term data on mortality rates for children admitted to hospital with pneumonia in Africa. We examined trends in case fatality rates for all-cause clinical pneumonia and its risk factors in Malawian children between 2001 and 2012. Methods: Individual patient...