Emergency triage assessment for hypoxaemia in neonates and young children in a Kenyan hospital: an observational study

OBJECTIVE: To describe the prevalence of hypoxaemia in children admitted to a hospital in Kenya for the purpose of identifying clinical signs of hypoxaemia for emergency triage assessment, and to test the hypothesis that such signs lead to correct identification of hypoxaemia in children, irrespecti...

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Main Authors: Michael K Mwaniki, D James Nokes, James Ignas, Patrick Munywoki, Mwanajuma Ngama, Charles RJC Newton, Kathryn Maitland, James A Berkley
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The World Health Organization 2009-04-01
Series:Bulletin of the World Health Organization
Online Access:http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0042-96862009000400011&lng=en&tlng=en