Why the study?
Heart failure is an important cause of morbidity and mortality in children, motivating an investigation into the clinical characteristics and factors associated with poor outcomes in a pediatric emergency ward.
This study describes the clinical characteristics and predictors of poor outcomes in pediatric acute heart failure in a Nigerian emergency ward.
May inform local pediatric HF care in Nigeria; leaves open validation of outcome predictors in prospective studies.
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Uchenna Onubogu (2020) studied this question.
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