Predicting in-hospital mortality in children in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review and meta-analysis of vital signs and anthropometric measurements

• Lisanne C. A. Smits ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: lisanne@jelgersma.nl

  ¶☯ These authors share first authorship on this work.

  Affiliation Amsterdam UMC, location University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam Institute for Global Child Health, Emma Children’s hospital, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

  https://orcid.org/0009-0009-2792-9681

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• Myrthe Datema ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶☯ These authors share first authorship on this work.

  Affiliation Amsterdam UMC, location University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam Institute for Global Child Health, Emma Children’s hospital, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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• Wieger P. Voskuijl,

  Roles Supervision

  Affiliations Amsterdam UMC, location University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam Institute for Global Child Health, Emma Children’s hospital, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Amsterdam UMC, location University of Amsterdam, Department of Global Health, Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Kamuzu University of Health Sciences, Blantyre, Malawi

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• Moses M. Ngari,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Clinical Research Department, KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Kilifi, Kenya

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• Mercy Kumwenda,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Kamuzu University of Health Sciences, Blantyre, Malawi, Department of Paediatrics, Kamuzu Central Hospital, Lilongwe, Malawi

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8463-8794

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• Job C. J. Calis

  Roles Data curation, Supervision

  Affiliations Amsterdam UMC, location University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam Institute for Global Child Health, Emma Children’s hospital, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Amsterdam UMC, location University of Amsterdam, Department of Global Health, Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Kamuzu University of Health Sciences, Blantyre, Malawi, Paediatric Intensive Care, Emma Children’s Hospital, Amsterdam University Medical Centres, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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