Childhood Pneumonia
Comparable outcomes among trial and nontrial participants in a clinical trial of antibiotics for childhood pneumonia : a retrospective cohort study
... of childhood pneumonia recommending outpatient therapy for children with lower chest wall indrawing with oral ...bacterial pneumonia, resulting in a relative increase in the proportion of children ...
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Measurement and valuation of health providers' time for the management of childhood pneumonia in rural Malawi - An empirical study
... The pace of new vaccine adoption has been accelerat- ing in recent years, with more sophisticated and expen- sive products becoming increasingly available on the market [2]. This can put a strain on the Expanded ...
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Childhood Pneumonia Screener: a concept
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Using the Zero Inflated Negative Binomial Model to assess Factors Associated with Occurrence of Childhood Pneumonia
... Unlike categorical data whose distribution is almost always known, count data is different and may sometimes have excess zeros. The childhood pneumonia cases showed excess zeroes and over-dispersion (the ...
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Estimating average inpatient and outpatient costs and childhood pneumonia and diarrhoea treatment costs in an urban health centre in Zambia
... of pneumonia and diarrhoea is needed for inclusion in cost-effectiveness ...under-five pneumonia and diarrhoea visits and bed days recorded in the health cen- tre's records, and the total outpatient and ...
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Utility of lung ultrasound in childhood pneumonia in a tertiary care center
... Background: Pneumonia is a major cause of childhood mortality and morbidity ...of pneumonia. To assess lung ultrasound (LUS) findings in childhood pneumonia and to correlate lung ...
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Experience developing national evidence-based clinical guidelines for childhood pneumonia in a low-income setting - making the GRADE?
... severe pneumonia: benzyl penicillin/ampicillin and gentamicin versus ceftriaxone We found no experimental data directly comparing out- comes following treatment of very severe childhood pneumonia ...
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Childhood pneumonia increases risk for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: the COPDGene study
... follow childhood cohorts are limited by younger age at follow-up, especially given that the highest rates of COPD are in those over 65 [7, 10, ...weight, childhood socio-economic status, and objective ...
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“It is good to take her early to the doctor” – mothers’ understanding of childhood pneumonia symptoms and health care seeking in Kilimanjaro region, Tanzania
... Our findings demonstrate a good community understand- ing of childhood pneumonia symptoms with a strong pref- erence for modern medicine and facility care. However, access to appropriate care was limited ...
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RNA viruses in community-acquired childhood pneumonia in semi-urban Nepal; a cross-sectional study
... cause pneumonia more fre- quently in school-age children, but can also cause mild infections in younger children ...in pneumonia is hampered by the difficulties of obtaining specimens from the lower airways ...
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Treating childhood pneumonia in hard to reach areas: A model based comparison of mobile clinics and community based care
... of childhood pneumonia were excluded because they were not expected to have a significant impact on the relative effectiveness of the two strategies being ...
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Determinates of Childhood Pneumonia and Diarrhea with Special Emphasis to Exclusive Breastfeeding in North Achefer District, Northwest Ethiopia: A Case Control Study
... of childhood illnesses in our area are ...of childhood pneumonia and ...or pneumonia over three months prior to the survey while controls were 122 children who visited well baby clinic for ...
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Temperature variability and childhood pneumonia: an ecological study
... Some studies have observed significantly increased respiratory-related mortality associated with big TCN [12] while others did not find significant effects [11]. Our study stands out of previous studies by specifically ...
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Encouraging rational antibiotic use in childhood pneumonia: a focus on Vietnam and the Western Pacific Region
... acquired pneumonia, the authors performed a compre- hensive review of common bacterial pathogens and their reported drug resistance profiles in the Western Pacific Region — Vietnam in ...acquired pneumonia ...
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Childhood pneumonia and meningitis in the Eastern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea in the era of conjugate vaccines: study methods and challenges
... pediatric pneumonia and meningitis cases and community controls in a third-world setting with limited health services, health and other infrastructures presents unique ...
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Zinc adjunct therapy reduces case fatality in severe childhood pneumonia: a randomized double blind placebo-controlled trial
... We attempted to get blood culture on most of our patients but did this on only 184/352 (52.3%) of the children. Of these, 45/184 (24.5%) were culture positive. Secondly, we did not measure serum C-reactive protein (CRP), ...
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Correlation of serum vitamin D levels and anemia in childhood pneumonia: a case control study from rural area
... acquired pneumonia and level < 50 ng/ml was associated with ...develop pneumonia, but in a pneumonia child it may increase the severity of infection and ...
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Improved oxygen systems in district hospitals in Lao PDR: a prospective field trial of the impact on outcomes for childhood pneumonia and equipment sustainability
... many childhood, newborn and maternal conditions but often not well recognised or managed in settings where resources are ...with pneumonia were evaluated using a before-and-after controlled study design ...
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Quality Improvement Methods Increase Appropriate Antibiotic Prescribing for Childhood Pneumonia
... of childhood CAP for hospitalized patients was pro- vided to all participants of the seminar and to their divisions to distribute to faculty who were unable to ...
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Effect of enhancing audit and feedback on uptake of childhood pneumonia treatment policy in hospitals that are part of a clinical network: a cluster randomized trial
... (indrawing) pneumonia was correctly classified and treated according to new guidelines (coded 1 for chil- dren who were correctly classified and treated, otherwise the indicator was coded ...
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