Setting research priorities to reduce mortality and morbidity of childhood diarrhoeal disease in the next 15 years

PLoS Med. 2013;10(5):e1001446. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001446. Epub 2013 May 14.

Abstract

Zulfi Bhutta and colleagues lay out research priorities for global child diarrheal disease over the next 15 years, which they developed using the Child Health and Nutrition Research Initiative (CHNRI) method.

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Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Administration, Oral
  • Antidiarrheals / adverse effects
  • Antidiarrheals / therapeutic use*
  • Biomedical Research / trends*
  • Caregivers / psychology
  • Child
  • Child Health Services / trends*
  • Child Mortality / trends*
  • Child, Preschool
  • Diarrhea / epidemiology
  • Diarrhea / mortality
  • Diarrhea / therapy*
  • Fluid Therapy / adverse effects
  • Fluid Therapy / trends*
  • Forecasting
  • Health Behavior
  • Health Education
  • Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
  • Health Priorities / trends*
  • Health Services Research / trends*
  • Humans
  • Infant
  • Infant Mortality / trends*
  • Infant, Newborn
  • Parents / psychology
  • Rehydration Solutions / administration & dosage*
  • Rehydration Solutions / adverse effects
  • Risk Factors
  • Time Factors
  • Treatment Outcome

Substances

  • Antidiarrheals
  • Rehydration Solutions

Grants and funding

Funding was provided by an unrestricted grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to Aga Khan University and through it to the Program for Global Pediatric Research, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto for undertaking this exercise. All coauthors volunteered their time to conduct this exercise. The funders had no role in the study design, data collection, analysis, decision to publish or preparation of the manuscript.