Neonatal hypothermia detection by ThermoSpot in Indian urban slum dwellings
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Human touch to detect hypothermia in neonates in Indian slum dwellings.
OBJECTIVE To assess the validity of human touch (HT) method to measure hypothermia compared against axillary digital thermometry (ADT) and study association of hypothermia with poor suckle and underweight status in newborns and environmental temperature in 11 slums of Indore city, India. METHODS Field supervisors of slum-based health volunteers measured body temperature of 152 newborns by HT ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Archives of Disease in Childhood - Fetal and Neonatal Edition
سال: 2006
ISSN: 1359-2998,1468-2052
DOI: 10.1136/adc.2005.078410