Infant- and child-level predictors of mortality in low-resource settings: the WHO Child Mortality Risk Stratification Multi-Country Pooled Cohort
Catherine Schwinger
Abstract:SUMMARYBackgroundDespite impressive reductions in overall global child mortality, rates of decline have slowed during the last decade. Current guidelines for the care of at-risk children in low-resource settings mostly focus on broad clinical syndromes or undernutrition rather than children’s individual contextualized risk. We aimed to identify readily assessable child-level characteristics that can predict child mortality risk in a range of community and healthcare settings in high-burden settings.MethodsWe a… Show more
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