Open AccessPredictors of mortality in children due to severe and very severe pneumonia
Author(s) -
Chandrakant M Bokade,
Abhishek Madhura,
Abhay S Bagul,
Subhash B. Thakre
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
nigerian medical journal/nigerian medical journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2229-774X
pISSN - 0300-1652
DOI - 10.4103/0300-1652.165038
Subject(s) - medicine , pneumonia , severe acute malnutrition , confidence interval , case fatality rate , odds ratio , pediatrics , referral , multivariate analysis , logistic regression , observational study , univariate analysis , mortality rate , malnutrition , epidemiology , family medicine
Mortality due to pneumonia in children is more than any other illness. Limited data is available to predict mortality in children with pneumonia from central India.