Advancing severity grading for risk-differentiated paediatric pneumonia care

Affiliations

¹ Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA; Department of Emergency Medicine, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, Atlanta, GA 30329, USA. Electronic address: chris.rees@emory.edu.
² Department of Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health and Ageing, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.
³ ISGlobal, Barcelona, Spain; Centro de Investigação em Saúde de Manhiça, Maputo, Mozambique; ICREA, Barcelona, Spain; Institut Clínic de Medicina I Dermatologia, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; Facultat de Medicina i Ciències de la Salut, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; Pediatrics Department, Hospital Sant Joan de Déu, Universitat de Barcelona, Esplugues, Barcelona, Spain; CIBER de Epidemiología y Salud Pública, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain.
⁴ Vaccines and Infectious Diseases Analytics Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa; Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital, Johannesburg, South Africa.

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Chris A Rees et al. Lancet Child Adolesc Health. 2025 Jun.

. 2025 Jun;9(6):362-363.

doi: 10.1016/S2352-4642(25)00125-7.

¹ Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA; Department of Emergency Medicine, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, Atlanta, GA 30329, USA. Electronic address: chris.rees@emory.edu.
² Department of Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health and Ageing, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.
³ ISGlobal, Barcelona, Spain; Centro de Investigação em Saúde de Manhiça, Maputo, Mozambique; ICREA, Barcelona, Spain; Institut Clínic de Medicina I Dermatologia, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; Facultat de Medicina i Ciències de la Salut, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; Pediatrics Department, Hospital Sant Joan de Déu, Universitat de Barcelona, Esplugues, Barcelona, Spain; CIBER de Epidemiología y Salud Pública, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain.
⁴ Vaccines and Infectious Diseases Analytics Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa; Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital, Johannesburg, South Africa.

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Conflict of interest statement

We declare no competing interests. CAR was supported by the National Institutes of Health (K23HL173694).

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