Delayed care seeking for fatal pneumonia in children aged under five years in Uganda: a case-series study

OBJECTIVE: To review individual case histories of children who had died of pneumonia in rural Uganda and to investigate why these children did not survive. METHODS: This case-series study was done in the Iganga/Mayuge demographic surveillance site, Uganda, where 67 000 people were visited once every...

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Main Authors: Karin Källander, Helena Hildenwall, Peter Waiswa, Edward Galiwango, Stefan Peterson, George Pariyo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The World Health Organization 2008-05-01
Series:Bulletin of the World Health Organization
Online Access:http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0042-96862008000500009&lng=en&tlng=en