• The most useful clinical signs and symptoms that help to predict a diagnosis of pneumonia |
• Which children require a chest x ray before treatment |
• Which test to detect the causative organism will be sensitive, specific, affordable, and quick and easy to use |
• Which antibiotic should be prescribed |
• Which route should be used for administering the antibiotic prescribed |
• If the intravenous route is used when should a switch to oral antibiotics occur |
• Which children should continue to take low dose prophylactic antibiotics following a diagnosis of pneumonia |
• Whether all children under 2 years should be given the new conjugate pneumococcal vaccine |
• Variation in individual host response to the disease |