Outcomes among children and adults at risk of severe dengue in Sri Lanka: Opportunity for outpatient case management in countries with high disease burden.
Champica K BodinayakeAjith DeS NagahawatteVasantha DevasiriNiroshana J DahanayakeWeerasinghe Mudiyanselage Dilip Gaya Bandara WijayaratneNayani Prasangika WeerasingheMadureka PremamaliTianchen ShengBradly P NicholsonHarshanie A UbeysekaraRuvini Mp KurukulasooriyaAruna Dharshan de SilvaTruls ØstbyeChristopher W WoodsL Gayani TillekeratnePublished in: PLoS neglected tropical diseases (2021)
One-half of patients hospitalized with acute dengue progressed to develop DHF and a very small number developed DSS or severe dengue. Developing an algorithm for triaging patients to ambulatory versus inpatient management should be the future goal to optimize utilization of healthcare resources in dengue-endemic countries.