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Computerized Lung Sound Screening for Pediatric Auscultation in Noisy Field Environments by Emmanouilidou, Dimitra, McCollum, Eric D., Park, Daniel E., Elhilali, Mounya

“…Goal: Chest auscultations offer a non-invasive and low-cost tool for monitoring lung disease. However, they present many shortcomings, including inter-listener…”
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Longitudinally Evaluating the Lung Function of Children in Low- and Middle-income Countries: It’s About Time by McCollum, Eric D

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Outpatient Management of Children With World Health Organization Chest Indrawing Pneumonia: Implementation Risks and Proposed Solutions by McCollum, Eric D., Ginsburg, Amy Sarah

“…This Viewpoints article details our recommendation for the World Health Organization Integrated Management of Childhood Illness guidelines to consider…”
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Predicting Hospitalised Paediatric Pneumonia Mortality Risk: An External Validation of RISC and mRISC, and Local Tool Development (RISC-Malawi) from Malawi by Hooli, Shubhada, Colbourn, Tim, Lufesi, Norman, Costello, Anthony, Nambiar, Bejoy, Thammasitboon, Satid, Makwenda, Charles, Mwansambo, Charles, McCollum, Eric D, King, Carina

“…Pneumonia is the leading infectious cause of under-5 mortality in sub-Saharan Africa. Clinical prediction tools may aide case classification, triage, and…”
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Artificial intelligence and pneumonia: a rapidly evolving frontier by Ginsburg, Amy Sarah, McCollum, Eric D

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Bubble continuous positive airway pressure for children with pneumonia and hypoxaemia in Ethiopia by McCollum, Eric D, Mvalo, Tisungane

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Pulse oximetry for children with pneumonia treated as outpatients in rural Malawi by McCollum, Eric D, King, Carina, Deula, Rashid, Zadutsa, Beatiwel, Mankhambo, Limangeni, Nambiar, Bejoy, Makwenda, Charles, Masache, Gibson, Lufesi, Norman, Mwansambo, Charles, Costello, Anthony, Colbourn, Tim

“…To investigate implementation of outpatient pulse oximetry among children with pneumonia, in Malawi. In 2011, 72 health-care providers at 18 rural health…”
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Reference free auscultation quality metric and its trends by Kala, Annapurna, McCollum, Eric D., Elhilali, Mounya

“…Stethoscopes are used ubiquitously in clinical settings to ‘listen’ to lung sounds. The use of these systems in a variety of healthcare environments…”
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Antibiotic treatment failure in children aged 1 to 59 months with World Health Organization-defined severe pneumonia in Malawi: A CPAP IMPACT trial secondary analysis by Mvalo, Tisungane, Smith, Andrew G, Eckerle, Michelle, Hosseinipour, Mina C, Kondowe, Davie, Vaidya, Dhananjay, Liu, Yisi, Corbett, Kelly, Nansongole, Dan, Mtimaukanena, Takondwa A, Lufesi, Norman, McCollum, Eric D

“…Pneumonia is a leading cause of mortality in children <5 years globally. Early identification of hospitalized children with pneumonia who may fail antibiotics…”
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Adaptive Noise Suppression of Pediatric Lung Auscultations With Real Applications to Noisy Clinical Settings in Developing Countries by Emmanouilidou, Dimitra, McCollum, Eric D., Park, Daniel E., Elhilali, Mounya

“…Goal: Chest auscultation constitutes a portable low-cost tool widely used for respiratory disease detection. Though it offers a powerful means of pulmonary…”
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Predictive value of pulse oximetry for mortality in infants and children presenting to primary care with clinical pneumonia in rural Malawi: A data linkage study by Colbourn, Tim, King, Carina, Beard, James, Phiri, Tambosi, Mdala, Malizani, Zadutsa, Beatiwel, Makwenda, Charles, Costello, Anthony, Lufesi, Norman, Mwansambo, Charles, Nambiar, Bejoy, Hooli, Shubhada, French, Neil, Bar Zeev, Naor, Qazi, Shamim Ahmad, Bin Nisar, Yasir, McCollum, Eric D

“…The mortality impact of pulse oximetry use during infant and childhood pneumonia management at the primary healthcare level in low-income countries is unknown…”
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Impact of the 13-Valent Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine on Clinical and Hypoxemic Childhood Pneumonia over Three Years in Central Malawi: An Observational Study by McCollum, Eric D, Nambiar, Bejoy, Deula, Rashid, Zadutsa, Beatiwel, Bondo, Austin, King, Carina, Beard, James, Liyaya, Harry, Mankhambo, Limangeni, Lazzerini, Marzia, Makwenda, Charles, Masache, Gibson, Bar-Zeev, Naor, Kazembe, Peter N, Mwansambo, Charles, Lufesi, Norman, Costello, Anthony, Armstrong, Ben, Colbourn, Tim

“…The pneumococcal conjugate vaccine's (PCV) impact on childhood pneumonia during programmatic conditions in Africa is poorly understood. Following PCV13…”
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Fetal and Early-Life Stove and Fuel Interventions and Respiratory Oscillometry Lung Function Measures in Preschool-Aged Children from Ghana by McCollum, Eric D, Checkley, William, Balakrishnan, Kalpana, Clasen, Thomas F, Peel, Jennifer L

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Pneumonia Risk Stratification Scores for Children in Low-Resource Settings: A Systematic Literature Review by Deardorff, Katrina V, McCollum, Eric D, Ginsburg, Amy Sarah

“…BACKGROUND:Pneumonia is the leading infectious cause of death among children less than 5 years of age. Predictive tools, commonly referred to as risk scores,…”
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Placebo vs Amoxicillin for Nonsevere Fast-Breathing Pneumonia in Malawian Children Aged 2 to 59 Months: A Double-blind, Randomized Clinical Noninferiority Trial by Ginsburg, Amy Sarah, Mvalo, Tisungane, Nkwopara, Evangelyn, McCollum, Eric D, Ndamala, Chifundo B, Schmicker, Robert, Phiri, Ajib, Lufesi, Norman, Izadnegahdar, Rasa, May, Susanne

“…Pneumonia is the leading infectious killer of children. Rigorous evidence supporting antibiotic treatment of children with nonsevere fast-breathing pneumonia…”
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Amoxicillin for 3 or 5 Days for Chest-Indrawing Pneumonia in Malawian Children by Ginsburg, Amy-Sarah, Mvalo, Tisungane, Nkwopara, Evangelyn, McCollum, Eric D, Phiri, Melda, Schmicker, Robert, Hwang, Jun, Ndamala, Chifundo B, Phiri, Ajib, Lufesi, Norman, May, Susanne

“…Children in Malawi with chest-indrawing pneumonia were randomly assigned to a 3-day or a 5-day regimen of amoxicillin. The 3-day regimen was noninferior to the…”
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Design and Rationale of the HAPIN Study: A Multicountry Randomized Controlled Trial to Assess the Effect of Liquefied Petroleum Gas Stove and Continuous Fuel Distribution by Clasen, Thomas, Checkley, William, Peel, Jennifer L, Balakrishnan, Kalpana, McCracken, John P, Rosa, Ghislaine, Thompson, Lisa M, Barr, Dana Boyd, Clark, Maggie L, Johnson, Michael A, Waller, Lance A, Jaacks, Lindsay M, Steenland, Kyle, Miranda, J Jaime, Chang, Howard H, Kim, Dong-Yun, McCollum, Eric D, Davila-Roman, Victor G, Papageorghiou, Aris, Rosenthal, Joshua P

“…Globally, nearly 3 billion people rely on solid fuels for cooking and heating, the vast majority residing in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). The…”
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Pulse oximetry to detect paediatric hypoxaemia—the fifth vital sign by Zar, Heather J, McCollum, Eric D

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Systemic Perspectives on Intimate Partner Violence Treatment by Stith, Sandra M., McCollum, Eric E., Amanor-Boadu, Yvonne, Smith, Douglas

“…This article reviews changes in the research literature on intimate partner violence (IPV) since our earlier review (Stith, Rosen, & McCollum, 2003). A…”
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Trends in the global burden of paediatric lower respiratory infections by King, Carina, McCollum, Eric D

“…Key factors in these reductions have been the roll-out and scale-up of vaccine coverage against Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) and pneumococcal infections…”
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