Clinical risk factors of death from pneumonia in children with severe acute malnutrition in an urban critical care ward of Bangladesh.

BACKGROUND: Risks of death are high when children with pneumonia also have severe acute malnutrition (SAM) as a co-morbidity. However, there is limited published information on risk factors of death from pneumonia in SAM children. We evaluated clinically identifiable factors associated with death in...

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Main Authors: Mohammod Jobayer Chisti, Mohammed Abdus Salam, Hasan Ashraf, Abu S G Faruque, Pradip Kumar Bardhan, Md Iqbal Hossain, Abu S M S B Shahid, K M Shahunja, Sumon Kumar Das, Gazi Imran, Tahmeed Ahmed
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3767805?pdf=render