Fiebre adult severity scores data – User Guide

Persistent identifier

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.

Data collection methods

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.

Geographic regions

Lao PDR, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe

Key dates

Quality controls

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.

Population

Adult in and outpatients with a fever presenting to hospitals and clinics in 4 countries (Lao PDR, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe).

Privacy

Personally identifiable data such as dates of birth, names and address have been removed from the dataset.

Ethics

Organisation Ethics ID
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine 14538 - 9
Lao PDR National Ethics Committee for Health Research 056/NECHR
University of Malawi College of Medicine Research P.02/18/2355
Comité Institucional de Bioética para a Saúde do Centro de Investigação em Saúde de Manhiça and the Comité Nacional de Bioética em Saúde de Moçambique CISM/11103/03/18
Zimbabwe the Medical Research Council of Zimbabwe MRCZ/A/2255

Keywords

Fever, severity scores, prognostic scores, mortality

Language of written material

English

Project information

Project name Funder/sponsor Grant number
Febrile Illness Evaluation in a Broad Range of Endemicities (FIEBRE) Study Consortium Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office(FCDO) 01355

Creators

Forename Surname Faculty / Dept Institution Role
Sham Lal Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases / Department of Disease Control London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Data Creator

Associated roles

Forename Surname Faculty / Dept Institution Role
Heidi Hopkins Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases / Department of Disease Control London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Project Leader

File description

Filename Description Access status Licence
Fiebre_adult_severity_scores_data Fiebre adult severity scores data Controlled Data sharing agreement
Fiebre_adult_severity_scores_data_codebook Codebook for Fiebre adult severity scores data Open Creative Commons Attribution (CCBY)
4332-UserGuide User guide for Fiebre adult severity scores data Open Creative Commons Attribution (CCBY)