Fiebre adult severity scores data

Lal, S. 2024. Fiebre adult severity scores data. [Online]. London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom. Available from: https://doi.org/10.17037/DATA.00004332.

Lal, S. Fiebre adult severity scores data [Internet]. London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine; 2024. Available from: https://doi.org/10.17037/DATA.00004332.

Lal, S (2024). Fiebre adult severity scores data. [Data Collection]. London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom. https://doi.org/10.17037/DATA.00004332.

Description

An anonymised dataset of 2,797 adult in and outpatient (≥15 years) with a fever ((≥37.5°C) who gave informed consent to participate in a clinical observational study conducted in four countries (Lao PDR, Malawi, Mozambique and Zimbabwe) between June 2018-March 2021. Dataset contains variables on clinical history of illness, signs and symptoms for creating severity scores, treatment history and socio-demographic information, and outcomes (alive or dead) by day 28 follow-up.

Methods

Description of data capture

Study staff collected demographic data, took a standardised clinical history, and performed a physical examination which included measuring the clinical signs for calculating the adult severity scores; MEWS, qSOFA, and UVA. All data were collected Open Data Kit where data were validated during the point of entry and outliers for clinical observations were detected using statistical methods.

Data capture method

Questionnaire, Observation

Data Collection Period

From	To
June 2018	March 2021

Date (Date submitted to LSHTM repository)

13 September 2024

Language(s) of written materials

English

People & Groups

Data Creators	Lal, S
Associated roles	Hopkins, H (Principal Investigator)
LSHTM Faculty/Department	Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases > Dept of Disease Control
Participating Institutions	London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Projects

Funders

Project	Funder	Grant Number	Funder URI
Febrile Illness Evaluation in a Broad Range of Endemicities (FIEBRE) Study Consortium	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office	UNSPECIFIED	http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100020171