Pneumonia case-finding in the RESPIRE Guatemala indoor air pollution trial: standardizing methods for resource-poor settings

Pneumonia case-finding in the RESPIRE Guatemala indoor air pollution trial: standardizing methods for resource-poor settings

OBJECTIVE: Trials of environmental risk factors and acute lower respiratory infections (ALRI) face a double challenge: implementing sufficiently sensitive and specific outcome assessments, and blinding. We evaluate methods used in the first randomized exposure study of pollution indoors and respirat...

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Main Authors: Nigel Bruce, Martin Weber, Byron Arana, Anaite Diaz, Alisa Jenny, Lisa Thompson, John McCracken, Mukesh Dherani, Damaris Juarez, Sergio Ordonez, Robert Klein, Kirk R Smith
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The World Health Organization 2007-07-01
Series:Bulletin of the World Health Organization
Online Access:http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0042-96862007000700011&lng=en&tlng=en

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