George, EC;
Walker, AS;
Kiguli, S;
Olupot-Olupot, P;
Opoka, RO;
Engoru, C;
Akech, SO;
... Babiker, AG; + view all
(2015)
Predicting mortality in sick African children: the FEAST Paediatric Emergency Triage (PET) Score.
BMC Medicine
, 13
, Article 174. 10.1186/s12916-015-0407-3.
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Abstract
Mortality in paediatric emergency care units in Africa often occurs within the first 24 h of admission and remains high. Alongside effective triage systems, a practical clinical bedside risk score to identify those at greatest risk could contribute to reducing mortality.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Predicting mortality in sick African children: the FEAST Paediatric Emergency Triage (PET) Score |
| Location: | England |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1186/s12916-015-0407-3 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12916-015-0407-3 |
| Additional information: | © 2015 George et al. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses /by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Inst of Clinical Trials and Methodology UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Inst of Clinical Trials and Methodology > MRC Clinical Trials Unit at UCL |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1472256 |
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