Development of a prognostic risk score to aid antibiotic decision-making for children aged 2-59 months with World Health Organization fast breathing pneumonia in Malawi: An Innovative Treatments in Pneumonia (ITIP) secondary analysis.

<h4>Background</h4>Due to increasing antimicrobial resistance in low-resource settings, strategies to rationalize antibiotic treatment of children unlikely to have a bacterial infection are needed. This study's objective was to utilize a database of placebo treated Malawian children...

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Main Authors: Eric D McCollum, Siobhan P Brown, Evangelyn Nkwopara, Tisungane Mvalo, Susanne May, Amy Sarah Ginsburg
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0214583