Field testing two existing, standardized respiratory severity scores (LIBSS and ReSViNET) in infants presenting with acute respiratory illness to tertiary hospitals in Rwanda – a validation and inter-rater reliability study

• Boniface Hakizimana,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, University of Rwanda, Kigali, Rwanda, Department of Pediatrics, University Teaching Hospital of Kigali, Kigali, Rwanda

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9858-6470

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• Edgar Kalimba,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, University of Rwanda, Kigali, Rwanda, King Faisal Hospital, Kigali, Rwanda

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• Augustin Ndatinya,

  Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Rwanda Military Hospital, Kigali, Rwanda

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• Gemma Saint,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Institute of Child Health, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom, Department of Respiratory Pediatrics, Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool, United Kingdom

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• Clare van Miert,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Nursing and Allied Health Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, United Kingdom

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• Peter Thomas Cartledge

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: peterthomascartledge@gmail.com

  Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, University of Rwanda, Kigali, Rwanda, Department of Emergency Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Rwanda Human Resources for Health (HRH) Program, Ministry of Health, Kigali, Rwanda

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2523-763X

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