Predicting death from kala-azar: construction, development, and validation of a score set and accompanying software

• Published in: Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical
• Main Authors: Dorcas Lamounier Costa, Regina Lunardi Rocha, Eldo de Brito Ferreira Chaves, Vivianny Gonçalves de Vasconcelos Batista, Henrique Lamounier Costa, Carlos Henrique Nery Costa
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical (SBMT)
• Subjects: Kala-azar; Visceral leishmaniasis; Prediction; Mortality; Software; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Arctic; Azar
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1590/0037-8682-0258-2016; https://doaj.org/article/ced3a9dbb5cb4dc8acc3ef48449228b5

Abstract INTRODUCTION Early identification of patients at higher risk of progressing to severe disease and death is crucial for implementing therapeutic and preventive measures; this could reduce the morbidity and mortality from kala-azar. We describe a score set composed of four scales in addition...