Burden of hospitalized childhood community-acquired pneumonia: A retrospective cross-sectional study in Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia and the Republic of Korea

Burden of hospitalized childhood community-acquired pneumonia: A retrospective cross-sectional study in Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia and the Republic of Korea

Background: Few studies describe the community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) burden in children in Asia. We estimated the proportion of all CAP hospitalizations in children from nine hospitals across the Republic of Korea (high-income), Indonesia, Malaysia (middle-income), and Vietnam (low/middle-income)...

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Main Authors: Kah Kee Tan, Duc Anh Dang, Ki Hwan Kim, Cissy Kartasasmita, Hwang Min Kim, Xu-Hao Zhang, Fakrudeen Shafi, Ta-Wen Yu, Emilio Ledesma, Nadia Meyer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2018-01-01
Series:Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics
Subjects:
asia
children
costs
epidemiology
hospitalization
pneumonia
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21645515.2017.1375073

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21645515.2017.1375073

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