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Table 2 Definitive diagnoses

From: Audit of therapeutic interventions in inpatient children using two scores: are they evidence-based in developing countries?

Diagnosis

N° of patients

Moderate diarrhoeal dehydration

48

Community acquired pneumonia

42

Acute asthma

22

Severe diarrhoeal dehydration

7

Congestive heart failure

6

Bronchiolitis

5

Mild diarrhoeal dehydration

4

Cellulitis

3

First simple febrile convulsion

3

Hypoxic crisis secondary to cyanotic congenital heart disease

3

Haemophilia A

3

Dilated cardiomyopathy

2

Nosocomial pneumonia

2

Post-infectious cerebellitis

1

Sickle cell anaemia vaso-occlusive crisis

1

Croup

1

Acute dysenteric diarrhoea

1

Invasive acute diarrhoea

1

Kawasaki disease

1

Anal fissure

1

Hydrocarbon poisoning

1

Recurrent urinary tract infection

1

Acute bacterial meningitis

1

Aspiration pneumonia

1

Acute otitis media

1

Mild acute pancreatitis

1

Immune thrombocytopenic purpura

1

Status epilepticus

1

Supraventricular tachycardia

1

Trichuriasis

1

Total

167