Assessment of the new World Health Organization's dengue classification for predicting severity of illness and level of healthcare required

In conclusion, the new classification had a low sensitivity for identifying patients needing advanced care and for predicting morbidity and mortality. We p ropose to include decompensation of chronic diseases and thrombocytopenia-related bleeding to the category of severe dengue in the new classification to improve the sensitivity of predicting cases requiring advanced care.
Source: PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases - Category: Tropical Medicine Authors: Source Type: research