External validation of clinical severity scores to guide referral of paediatric acute respiratory infections in resource-limited primary care settings.

ABSTRACT: Accurate and reliable guidelines for referral of children from resource-limited primary care settings are lacking. We identified three practicable paediatric severity scores (the Liverpool quick Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (LqSOFA), the quick Pediatric Logistic Organ Dysfunction-2, and the modified Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome) and externally validated their performance in young children presenting with acute respiratory infections (ARIs) to a primary care clinic located within a refugee camp on the Thailand-Myanmar border. This secondary analysis of data from a longitudinal birth cohort study consisted of 3010 ARI presentations in children aged ≤ 24 months. The primary outcome was receipt of supplemental oxygen. We externally validated the discrimination, calibration, a

SUBMITTER: Chandna A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10624658 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature