Validity of neonatal jaundice evaluation by primary health-care workers and physicians in Karachi, Pakistan

Validity of neonatal jaundice evaluation by primary health-care workers and physicians in Karachi, Pakistan

Objective: The purpose of this study was to validate primary health-care workers' and physicians' visual assessment of neonatal hyperbilirubinemia in Karachi, Pakistan. Study Design: We compared primary health-care workers' and physicians' clinical identification of jaundice in i...

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of perinatology 2010-09, Vol.30 (9), p.616-621
Hauptverfasser: Hatzenbuehler, L, Zaidi, A K M, Sundar, S, Sultana, S, Abbasi, F, Rizvi, A, Darmstadt, G L
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Sprache:eng
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Algorithms
Babies
Bilirubin - blood
Childrens health
Clinics
Community Health Workers
Developing Countries
Diagnosis
Health care
Humans
Hyperbilirubinemia
Infant
Infant, Newborn
Jaundice
Jaundice, Neonatal - diagnosis
LDCs
Medical personnel
Medical referrals
Medicine
Medicine & Public Health
Neonatal jaundice
Neonates
Newborn babies
Observer Variation
original-article
Pakistan
Pediatric Surgery
Pediatrics
Physical Examination
Physician Assistants
Physicians
Practice
Public health
Sensitivity and Specificity
Services
Severity of Illness Index
Validity
Workers
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Zusammenfassung:Objective: The purpose of this study was to validate primary health-care workers' and physicians' visual assessment of neonatal hyperbilirubinemia in Karachi, Pakistan. Study Design: We compared primary health-care workers' and physicians' clinical identification of jaundice in infants
ISSN:0743-8346
1476-5543
DOI:10.1038/jp.2010.13