Version: 1.0.0 | Published: 8 Oct 2024 | Updated: 229 days ago
Documentation
Associated Media:
Description:
Integrated Community Case Management (iCCM) is a World Health Organization (WHO) approach in which community health workers deliver basic healthcare services in the community setting, including childhood pneumonia treatment.
The WHO pneumonia guidelines are sensitive but non-specific, in order to ensure that children with possible pneumonia receive antibiotic treatment. As a result, while the guidelines miss few children with pneumonia (high sensitivity), many children who do not have pneumonia incorrectly receive antibiotics (low specificity), resulting in antibiotic overuse.
The WHO guidelines do not include lung auscultation (listening to lung sounds) in their pneumonia definition for frontline healthcare workers, likely due to its high inter-observer variability, regardless of healthcare providers’ training level. Digital auscultation by electronic stethoscopes may help to overcome these limitations. Inclusion of lung auscultation in the current algorithm could enhance the specificity of the guidelines.
This study aims to improve the diagnostic accuracy of child pneumonia by using automated lung sound classification through digital auscultation.
The embedded PhD will use the study data to (i) assess the consistency of lung sounds recorded by primary health care workers from under-five children using a digital stethoscope against pre-defined quality thresholds and (ii) determine the reliability and performance of the interpretations of recorded lung sounds by the Smartscope analysis system compared to reference interpretations by a paediatric listening panel.
For further information, see associated media
https://www.ed.ac.uk/usher/respire/phd-studentships/salahuddin-ahmed
Coverage
Spatial:
United Kingdom
Typical Age Range:
0-5
Provenance
Origin
Purposes:
Study
Collection Situations:
Community
Temporal
Accrual Periodicity:
Static
Distribution Release Date:
31 January 2021
Start Date:
01 May 2019
End Date:
31 January 2021
Time Lag:
Not applicable
Accessibility
Access
Access Rights:
Access Service:
Access service varies on a project-by-project basis. Contact the RESPIRE team
for further in formation
Delivery Lead Time:
Not applicable
Jurisdictions:
- GB-ENG
- GB-SCT
- GB-WLS
Data Controller:
BREATHE
Usage
Data Use Limitations:
General research use
Resource Creators:
RESPIRE collaboration
Format and Standards
Vocabulary Encoding Schemes:
LOCAL
Languages:
en
Formats:
text
Observations
Statistical Population
Population Description
Population Size
Measured Property
Observation Date
Findings
1
Count
31 January 2021