Clinical predictors of radiological pneumonia: A cross-sectional study from a tertiary hospital in Nepal.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Despite readily availability of vaccines against both Hemophilus influenzae and Pneumococcus, pneumonia remains the most common cause of morbidity and mortality in children under the age of five years in Nepal. With growing antibiotic resistance and a general move towards more rational antibiotic use, early identification of clinical signs for the prediction of radiological pneumonia would help practitioners to start the treatment of patients. The main aim of this study was to reassess the clinical predictors of pneumonia in Nepal.

Methods

This cross-sectional study was conducted between June 2015 and November 2015 at Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital, a tertiary hospital in Kathmandu, Nepal. Children aged 3-60 months with a clinical diagnosis of pneumonia by

SUBMITTER: Shrestha S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7377451 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature