Clinical case review: A method to improve identification of true clinical and radiographic pneumonia in children meeting the World Health Organization definition for pneumonia
Authors:
- the ARIVAC Research ConsortiumTCthe ARIVAC Research Consortium
- Taneli PuumalainenTPTaneli Puumalainen
- Beatriz QuiambaoBQBeatriz Quiambao
- Erma Abucejo-LadesmaEAErma Abucejo-Ladesma
- Socorro LupisanSLSocorro Lupisan
- Tarja Heiskanen-KosmaTHTarja Heiskanen-Kosma
- Petri RuutuPRPetri Ruutu
- Marilla G LuceroMLMarilla G Lucero
- Hanna NohynekHNHanna Nohynek
- Eric Af SimoesESEric Af Simoes
- Ian RileyIRIan Riley
Open Access
- 21 July 2008
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in BMC Infectious Diseases
- Vol. 8 (1) , 95
Abstract
The World Health Organization's (WHO) case definition for childhood pneumonia, composed of simple clinical signs of cough, difficult breathing and fast breathing, is widely used in resource poor settings to guide management of acute respiratory infections. The definition is also commonly used as an entry criteria or endpoint in different intervention and disease burden studies.Keywords
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