ArticleFrontiers in pediatrics2023
Clinical hypoxemia score for outpatient child pneumonia care lacking pulse oximetry in Africa and South Asia.
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- Reliability of Physical Examination Findings in Youths Diagnosed With Pneumonia.JAMA network open · 2026Article
- Predictors of Length of Hospital Stay Among Under-Five Children with Clinical Pneumonia at a Rural Tertiary Hospital Setting in South Africa.Pediatric reports · 2026Article
- Characteristics and outcomes of children initiated on high flow nasal cannula and continuous positive airway pressure at the emergency centre of a district hospital in South Africa.African journal of emergency medicine : Revue africaine de la medecine d'urgence · 2025Article
- Development and validation of a novel clinical risk score to predict hypoxaemia in children with pneumonia using the WHO PREPARE dataset.BMJ global health · 2025Article
- Pediatric COVID-19 in Lesotho and Post-pandemic Implications on Lower Respiratory Infections in Children.Cureus · 2024Article
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Background: Pulse oximeters are not routinely available in outpatient clinics in low- and middle-income countries. We derived clinical scores to identify hypoxemic child pneumonia. Methods: This was a retrospective pooled analysis of two outpatient datasets of 3-35 month olds with World Health Organization (WHO)-defined pneumonia in Bangladesh and Malawi. We constructed, internally validated, and compared fit & discrimination of four models predicting SpO Results: 12,712 observations were included. The independent and composite LASSO models discriminated moderately (both C-statistic 0.77) between children with a SpO Conclusions: In the absence of pulse oximeters, both LASSO models better identified outpatient hypoxemic pneumonia cases than the WHO guidelines. Score external validation and implementation are needed.
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