Objective. To determine predictive factors for the presence of focal infiltrates in children with
clinically suspected pneumonia in a pediatric emergency department. Methods. Children (1 …

Importance Pneumonia is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in children. It is
important to identify the clinical symptoms and physical examination findings associated with …

OBJECTIVE: To study the association between historical and physical examination findings
and radiographic pneumonia in children who present with suspicion for pneumonia in the …

Background: The diagnosis of pneumonia in children is challenging, given the wide overlap
of many of the symptoms and physical examination findings with other common respiratory …

Emergency physicians need to clinically differentiate children with and without radiographic
evidence of pneumonia. In this prospective cohort study of 510 patients 2 to 59 months of …

Pneumonia remains a common source of morbidity and mortality in children. A key question
in the diagnostic evaluation of children with acute respiratory illness is whether chest …

Objectives In 1997, a Canadian task force published evidence-based guidelines for
diagnosing pediatric pneumonia, concluding that the absence of each of four signs (ie …

BACKGROUND: Although chest radiography is commonly used to establish the diagnosis of
pneumonia in children, the reliability of radiographic findings among radiologists is not well …

BACKGROUND Chest radiographs (CXRs) are frequently used in the diagnosis of
community-acquired pneumonia (CAP). We sought to construct a predictive model for …

Background: The World Health Organization (WHO) established guidelines that rely on
simple clinical signs for the diagnosis of childhood pneumonia in resource-limited settings …