VASA 2-Sign Illness Severity Score for Infants 1-11 Months Old

A 9.5 KB Excel file by Henry D. Kalter, last updated May 2026, analyzes the association of a two-sign illness severity score with established clinical assessment criteria. The data focuses on fatal illnesses that began in the community for infants aged 1 to 11 months, comparing IMCI and an expanded VASA illness sign set.

Use Cases

• Validate a simplified two-sign severity score against the established IMCI protocol based on the described association analysis.
• Compare the performance of IMCI signs versus an expanded sign set (IMCI-VASA) for urgent referral decisions based on the described mean number of signs.
• Assess the utility of additional clinical signs for severe illness classification in infants based on the VASA illness signs mentioned.

Strengths

• File size is precisely 9.5 KB, indicating a focused, manageable dataset.
• License is clearly defined as CC-BY-4.0, permitting open reuse with attribution.
• Author attribution is provided (Henry D. Kalter).

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

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Collection Method

Analysis of fatal illness cases starting in the community, likely from a clinical or public health study.

Time Range

Temporal coverage is not specified in the input.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-22 17:46:51; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Spatial coverage is not specified in the input.