Derivation and validation of a novel risk assessment tool to identify children aged 2-59 months at risk of hospitalised pneumonia-related mortality in 20 countries.
Chris A ReesTimothy ColbournShubhada HooliCarina KingNorman LufesiEric D McCollumCharles MwansamboClare CutlandShabir Ahmed MadhiMarta NunesJoseph L MatthewEmmanuel Addo-YoboNoel ChisakaMumtaz HassanPatricia L HibberdPrakash M JeenaJuan M LozanoWilliam B MacLeodArchana PatelDonald M TheaNgoc Tuong Vy NguyenCissy B KartasasmitaMarilla LuceroShally AwasthiAshish BavdekarMonidarin ChouPagbajabyn NymadawaJean-William PapeGlaucia Paranhos-BaccalaValentina S PicotMala Rakoto-AndrianariveloVanessa RouzierGraciela RussomandoMariam SyllaPhilippe VanhemsJianwei WangRai AsgharSalem BanajehImran IqbalIrene Maulen-RadovanGreta Mino-LeonSamir K SahaMathuram SantoshamSunit SinghiSudha BasnetTor A StrandShinjini BhatnagarNitya WadhwaRakesh LodhaSatinder AnejaAlexey W ClaraHarry CampbellHarish NairJennifer FalconerShamim A QaziYasir B NisarMark I Neumannull nullPublished in: BMJ global health (2022)
The PREPARE risk assessment tool had good discriminatory ability for identifying children at risk of hospitalised pneumonia-related mortality in a large, geographically diverse dataset. After external validation, this tool may be implemented in various settings to identify children at risk of hospitalised pneumonia-related mortality.