Derivation and validation of a novel risk assessment tool to identify children aged 2–59 months at risk of hospitalised pneumonia-related mortality in 20 countries

• Norman Lufesi,
• Philippe Vanhems,
• Tim Colbourn,
• Charles Mwansambo,
• Eric D McCollum,
• Samir K Saha,
• Mathuram Santosham,
• Shally Awasthi,
• Harish Nair,
• Archana Patel,
• Patricia L Hibberd,
• Shabir Ahmed Madhi,
• Tor A Strand,
• Harry Campbell,
• Carina King,
• Rakesh Lodha,
• Shubhada Hooli,
• Mark I Neuman,
• Vanessa Rouzier,
• Ashish Bavdekar,
• Nitya Wadhwa,
• William B MacLeod,
• Donald M Thea,
• Emmanuel Addo-Yobo,
• Chris A Rees,
• Shamim A Qazi,
• Rai Asghar,
• Imran Iqbal,
• Shinjini Bhatnagar,
• Sunit Singhi,
• Sudha Basnet,
• Valentina S Picot,
• Pagbajabyn Nymadawa,
• Cissy B Kartasasmita,
• Marilla Lucero,
• Jennifer Falconer,
• Yasir B Nisar,
• Glaucia Paranhos-Baccalà,
• Juan M Lozano,
• Salem Banajeh,
• Irene Maulen-Radovan,
• Prakash M Jeena,
• Clare Cutland,
• Marta Nunes,
• Joseph L Matthew,
• Noel Chisaka,
• Mumtaz Hassan,
• Ngoc Tuong Vy Nguyen,
• Monidarin Chou,
• Jean-William Pape,
• Mala Rakoto-Andrianarivelo,
• Graciela Russomando,
• Mariam Sylla,
• Jianwei Wang,
• Greta Mino-Leon,
• Satinder Aneja,
• Alexey W Clara

Affiliations

Norman Lufesi

Department of Clinical Services, Malawi Ministry of Health, Lilongwe, Malawi

Philippe Vanhems

2 CIRI-Centre International de Recherche en Infectiologie, Inserm U1111, Université Claude Bernard Lyon, CNRS, UMR5308, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, Univ Lyon, Lyon, France

Tim Colbourn

lecturer in global health epidemiology and evaluation

Charles Mwansambo

Government of Malawi Ministry of Health, Lilongwe, Malawi

Eric D McCollum

Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Samir K Saha

13 Child Health Research Foundation, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Mathuram Santosham

7 Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Shally Awasthi

Department of Pediatrics, King George’s Medical University, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India

Harish Nair

Usher Institute, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK

Archana Patel

1 Lata Medical Research Foundation, Nagpur, India

Patricia L Hibberd

Department of Global Health, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Shabir Ahmed Madhi

Department of Science and Technology/National Research Foundation: South African Research Chair Initiative: Vaccine Preventable Diseases—Medical Research Council: Respiratory and Meningeal Pathogens Research Unit, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

Tor A Strand

Research Department, Innlandet Hospital Trust, Sykehuset Innlandet HF, Lillehammer, Norway

Harry Campbell

Usher Institute, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK

Carina King

Department of Global Public Health, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden

Rakesh Lodha

Department of Pediatrics, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India

Shubhada Hooli

Section of Emergency Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA

Mark I Neuman

Emergency Medicine, Children`s Hospital Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Vanessa Rouzier

Center for Global Health Research, Cornell University Joan and Sanford I Weill Medical College, New York, New York, USA

Ashish Bavdekar

Department of Paediatrics, KEM Hospital, Pune, Maharashtra, India

Nitya Wadhwa

1Department of Pediatrics, Center for Diarrheal Research, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India

William B MacLeod

Department of Global Health, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Donald M Thea

Department of Global Health, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Emmanuel Addo-Yobo

9 School of Medical Sciences, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

Chris A Rees

Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Shamim A Qazi

Child and Adolescent Health and Development, WHO, Geneva, Switzerland

Rai Asghar

Rawalpindi General Hospital, Rawalpindi, Pakistan

Imran Iqbal

SEHA, Abu Dhabi Health Services Co, Abu Dhabi, UAE

Shinjini Bhatnagar

1Department of Pediatrics, Center for Diarrheal Research, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India

Sunit Singhi

Department of Pediatrics, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India

Sudha Basnet

3 Department of Child Health, Institute of Medicine, Tribhuvan University, Maharajgunj, Nepal

Valentina S Picot

8 Scientific Department, Fondation Merieux, Lyon, France

Pagbajabyn Nymadawa

7Public Health Branch, Mongolian Academy of Medical Sciences, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

Cissy B Kartasasmita

Department of Child Health, Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Padjadjaran, Bandung, Indonesia

Marilla Lucero

Research Institute for Tropical Medicine, Manila, Philippines

Jennifer Falconer

Institute for Global Health and Development, Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, Scotland

Yasir B Nisar

Department of Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health and Ageing, WHO, Geneve, Switzerland

Glaucia Paranhos-Baccalà

Emerging Pathogens Laboratory, Fondation Mérieux, Lyon, France

Juan M Lozano

professor of paediatrics and clinical epidemiology

Salem Banajeh

professor

Irene Maulen-Radovan

professor

Prakash M Jeena

5 Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, University of KwaZulu-Natal Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, Durban, South Africa

Clare Cutland

South African Medical Research Council: Vaccines and Infectious Diseases Analytics Research Unit, School of Pathology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg-Braamfontein, South Africa

Marta Nunes

South African Medical Research Council: Vaccines and Infectious Diseases Analytics Research Unit, School of Pathology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg-Braamfontein, South Africa

Joseph L Matthew

Advanced Pediatrics Centre, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India

Noel Chisaka

World Bank, World Bank, Washington, District of Columbia, USA

Mumtaz Hassan

Department of Pediatrics, Children’s Hospital, Islamabad, Pakistan

Ngoc Tuong Vy Nguyen

Department of Pediatrics, Children Hospital No 1, Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam

Monidarin Chou

Rodolph Mérieux Laboratory, Faculty of Medicine, University of Health Sciences, Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Jean-William Pape

Department of Pediatrics, GHESKIO, Port-au-Prince, Haiti

Mala Rakoto-Andrianarivelo

Centre d`Infectiologie, Charles Mérieux, Antanarivo, Madagascar

Graciela Russomando

Departamento de Biología Molecular y Genética, Instituto de Investigaciones en Ciencias de la Salud, Asuncion, Paraguay

Mariam Sylla

Department of Pediatrics, Gabriel Touré University Hospital Center, Bamako, Mali

Jianwei Wang

MOH Key Laboratory of Systems Biology of Pathogens and Dr Christophe Mérieux Laboratory, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union, Beijing, China

Greta Mino-Leon

Infectious Diseases, Children`s Hospital Dr Francisco de Ycaza Bustamante, Guayaquil, Ecuador

Satinder Aneja

Department of Pediatrics, Sharda University School of Medical Sciences and Research, Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

Alexey W Clara

Central American Region, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA