Fiebre adult severity scores data

Lal, S

(2024). Fiebre adult severity scores data. [Dataset]. London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom. 10.17037/DATA.00004332.

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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.

Keywords

Fever; severity scores; prognostic scores; mortality

Item Type	Dataset
Resource Type	Resource Type Resource Description Dataset Quantitative
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.
Capture method	Questionnaire, Observation
Collection Period	From To June 2018 March 2021
Date	13 September 2024
Language(s) of written materials	English
Creator(s)	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
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
Date Deposited	13 Sep 2024 13:43
Last Modified	29 Jul 2025 12:48
Publisher	London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine