Coma scales for children with severe falciparum malaria.

The Blantyre coma scale (BCS) is used to assess children with severe falciparum malaria, particularly as a criterion for cerebral malaria, but it has not been formally validated. We compared the BCS to the Adelaide coma scale (ACS), for Kenyan children with severe malaria. We examined the inter-obse...

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Main Authors: Newton, C, Chokwe, T, Schellenberg, J, Winstanley, P, Forster, D, Peshu, N, Kirkham, F, Marsh, K
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: 1997