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Research in Nursing &Health, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Body mass index (BMI) is an inexpensive, easy‐to‐calculate, and noninvasive marker of malnutrition. Few studies have examined the longitudinal effects of BMI on the incidence of unfavorable physical health outcomes (UPHOs) among older adults receiving homecare nursing.
Lisako Kato +7 more
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An Analysis of the Prevalence of Pneumonia for Children under 12 Year Old in Tawau General Hospital, Malaysia [PDF]
arXiv, 2012 Pneumonia is one of the serious illnesses, which involves lung infection specifically alveoli. Nearly 40,000 to 70,000 people die each year in United State because of pneumonia. Therefore, it is not a surprise that pneumonia is one of the most critical illnesses for children under 12 years old in many parts of the world, including Malaysia and ...
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Classification of pediatric pneumonia using chest X-rays by functional regression [PDF]
arXiv, 2020 An accurate and prompt diagnosis of pediatric pneumonia is imperative for successful treatment intervention. One approach to diagnose pneumonia cases is using radiographic data. In this article, we propose a novel parsimonious scalar-on-image classification model adopting the ideas of functional data analysis.
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Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2019 Monotherapy with lefamulin, a novel, pleuromutilin antibiotic with intravenous and oral formulation options, was noninferior to moxifloxacin for efficacy and generally safe and well tolerated for community-acquired bacterial pneumonia (CABP). Lefamulin’s
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Procalcitonin and community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) in children [PDF]
, 2015 The role of procalcitonin (PCT) as a biomarker for sepsis in adults is well documented, while its role in infections affecting neonatal children remains controversial.
Agnello, L. +5 more
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Pediatric Discovery, EarlyView.The study explored the clinical characteristics and risk factors of HBoV‐positive severe pneumonia in children. These findings indicate that HBoV can be identified in respiratory samples from children with severe pneumonia, denoting its role as a viral pathogen in hospitalized children with this condition.
Jing Liao +6 more
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Diagnosis and Treatment of Community-Acquired Pneumonia in Children
Zdorovʹe Rebenka, 2016 In practice, especially in the outpatient setting, serious problems of pediatrics are early diagnosis and rational therapy of pneumonia in children.
I.A. Karymdzhanov +2 more
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Pediatric Discovery, EarlyView.Seven hundred and thirty‐nine children infected with SARS‐CoV‐2 in Zhuhai tend to have close‐contact aggregated morbidity within the family, with fever and cough as the main manifestations. Low age, underlying disease, some laboratory indicators, and patchy exudative changes on CT of the lungs are the windsocks of the severity of the infection ...
Ting Liu +7 more
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BMC Pulmonary Medicine, 2019 BackgroundDifferentiating bacterial from viral pneumonia is important for guiding targeted management and judicious use of antibiotics. We assessed if clinical characteristics and blood inflammatory biomarkers could be used to distinguish bacterial from ...
M. Bhuiyan +14 more
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Pediatric Discovery, EarlyView.This article introduces a national, multicenter, prospective, non‐interventional, observational registry study, which established a comprehensive and sustainable database of lower respiratory tract infection in children. This database will help improve the scientific research efficiency of clinicians and facilitate the exploration of underlying ...
Yu Deng +40 more
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