Community Based Integrated Management of Neonatal and Childhood Illness Records of Under-5 Patients at 23 Health Centres in Rural Nepal, 2013-2018

Data (in the form of paper records) was collected from 23 health centres in rural areas of Nepal, totalling 33,860 records of individual patient contacts for children under 5 years of age. The format of the record books follows the WHO (Nepal) guidance on Community Based - Integrated Management of Neonatal and Childhood Illness (IMNCI). The data included on the forms includes the following information on all children under 5: unique identifier, date of visit, child’s sex, age, ethnicity/caste, weight, temperature, symptoms of general danger signs, symptoms of acute respiratory infection (including respiratory rate), diarrhoea and dehydration symptoms, symptoms for fever and ear infections, mid upper arm circumference (MUAC) measurements, assessment of nutritional status, classification for one major diagnosis, medicine prescribed (name of medicine), follow up plan, and condition of child on the date of follow up.

本数据集以纸质档案形式采集自尼泊尔农村地区的23家卫生中心，共计收录33860条5岁以下儿童的就诊记录。本次建档格式遵循世界卫生组织（World Health Organization，WHO）尼泊尔分部发布的《基于社区的整合式新生儿与儿童疾病管理（Integrated Management of Neonatal and Childhood Illness，IMNCI）》指南。表单涵盖的5岁以下儿童信息包括：唯一标识符、就诊日期、儿童性别、年龄、族裔/种姓、体重、体温、一般危险体征症状、急性呼吸道感染症状（含呼吸频率）、腹泻与脱水症状、发热及耳部感染相关症状、上臂中段周长（Mid Upper Arm Circumference，MUAC）测量值、营养状况评估、主要诊断分类、处方药物名称、随访计划，以及随访当日儿童的健康状况。